Mini-symposium on Symbolic Data Science, MDS'22

End of AY 23/24 celebration!

2022 Annual SIAM Front Range Applied Mathematics Student Conference

Current Members

Evan Gorman (Postdoc)

Sean Svihla (PhD) 

Meilan Jess (BAM)

Maedee Trank-greene (BAM)

Devlin Costello (Undergrad)

Past Members Theses

Sean Svihla (MS 2024)
Thesis: Sparsification of Covariance Matrices of K-regular Trees

Alex Paradise (MS 2024)
Thesis: Quantitative Encoding of Bags-of-Words for Sentiment and Sarcasm Detection in Textual Data

Kesler O'Connor (PhD 2022)
Thesis: Source Localization on Infection Networks

Nicole Dong (Honors 2022)
Thesis: Performance of the Chen-Stein’s Method on Sums of Bernoulli Random Variables
Placement: CS PhD Program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Perrin Ruth (MS 2022)
Thesis: Numerical Encoding of Symbolic Data: Standard, State of the Art, and New Techniques

Placement: Graduate Program, University of Maryland

Antony Pearson (PhD 2020)
Thesis: On Hidden Structures in Contaminated Symbolic Data

Placement: Postdoc, Auburn University

Richard Tillquist (PhD 2020)
Thesis: Low-Dimensional Embeddings for Symbolic Data Science

Placement: Associate Professor, California State University

Lucas Laird (BS 2019)
Thesis: Metric Dimension of Hamming Graphs and Applications to Computational Biology

Placement: Research Assistant, MIT Lincoln Labs

Tyler Schuessler (Honors 2019)
Thesis: A Stochastic Prediction for the h-index Utilizing Price's Preferential Attachment Model

Placement: MATH PhD Program, University of Utah

Jonathan Lavington (MS 2018)
Thesis: A Probabilistic Modeling Approach to CRISPR-Cas9

Placement: CS PhD Program, University of British Columbia

Ian Char (MS 2018)
Thesis: Algorithmic Construction and Stochastic Analysis of Optimal Automata for Generalized Strings

Placement: ML PhD Program, Carnegie Mellon University

Jaden Pieper (MS 2017)
Thesis: Unentangling Quantum Algorithms for Mathematicians and Engineers

Placement: NIST Research Intern

Jerrad Hampton (PhD 2012)
Thesis: Dissimilarity and Optimal Sampling in Urn Ensembles

Placement: Aerospace Postdoc, University of Colorado Boulder

Stephen Chestnut (MS 2010)
Thesis: Approximating Markov chain occupancy distributions

Placement: APPM & STATS PhD Program, John Hopkins University

Gregory C. Peterson (MS 2010)
Thesis: Fairness Analysis via Poissonization

Placement: STATS PhD Program, North Carolina State University