Postdocs.
Mengwei Hu (2026 - 2029).
Colton C. Sandvik (2026 - 2028).
Matthew Hamil (2025 - 2026).
Research Analyst, Data-Driven Strategies Division, Baltimore, MD.
Haihan Wu (2024 - 2026).
Postdoc at the University of Virginia.
PhD Students.
TBA
Research Students.
Cohen Dickey, pure mathematics undergraduate research student, 2026-2027.
Efosa Owie, pure mathematics undergraduate research student, 2026-2027.
Weixi (Beck) Chen, pure mathematics undergraduate research student, 2025-2026.
2026 Summer REU at the University of Chicago.
Radford Green, pure mathematics undergraduate and master research student, 2025-2026.
2026 Summer REU at the State University of New York-New Paltz, algebraic geometry and tropical geometry over semirings.
Cornell Holmes, pure mathematics undergraduate and master research student, 2025-2026.
Teaching Assistant for Calculus I and Calculus II, Class Assistant for Linear Algebra, and Developer for an analysis course with Joe Cutrone at Johns Hopkins University.
Catherine (Catie) Lillja, pure and applied mathematics undergraduate research student, 2024-2026.
2026 Summer REU at the State University of New York-New Paltz, algebraic geometry and tropical geometry over semirings.
2025 Summer REU at Georgia Institute of Technology, tropical geometry.
Nicolas Rugo, pure mathematics undergraduate and master research student, 2024-2026.
2026 Graduate Summer School at IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) near the University of Utah.
Fabian Espinoza, pure mathematics undergraduate research student, 2024-2025.
PhD student at Louisiana State University.
Chenzhuo Li, applied mathematics master research student, 2024-2025.
Risk assessment analyst at Bank of China U.S.A. in New York City.
Tomas Mejia Gomez, pure mathematics doctoral student (part of research group), 2024-2025.
Postdoc at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Students.
Emily Stroud, head TA, 2024-2025.
Medical School, TBC.
Graduate Board Oral (GBO) Exam, Thesis Proposal.
Daiyue Sun (PhD), A reaction diffusion model of galvanotaxis coupling cell shape and sensor transport, Physics and Astronomy, alternate examiner, 2025-2026.
Jay Chittidi (PhD), Debris Disks, Near and Far, Physics and Astronomy, examiner, 2025-2026.
Ezra Sukay (PhD), The Distribution of Metals in Galaxies 10 Billion Years Ago And Beyond, Physics and Astronomy, alternate examiner, 2024-2025.
Graduate Board Oral (GBO) Exam, Final Defense.
Anish Chedalavada (PhD), Towards the derived geometry of 2-rings, Mathematics, examiner and reader, 2025-2026.
Postdoc at Mathematics Münster at Universität Münster, Germany.
Fan Huang (PhD), Triangulation of Gray Tensor Product, Mathematics, examiner, 2025-2026.
Andrew Winter (PhD), Small tip angle and quantum noise-calibrated magnetic resonance searches for axion-like dark matter, Physics and Astronomy, alternate examiner, 2025-2026.
Tomas Mejia Gomez (PhD), Link homologies, Bott-Samelson spaces and twisted cohomology, Mathematics, examiner, 2024-2025.
Postdoc at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Mufaro Chitoto (PhD), Symmetries in Quantum Field Theories, Physics and Astronomy, alternate examiner, 2024-2025.
Keduse Worku (PhD), Unveiling Cosmic Dawn, Physics and Astronomy, alternate examiner, 2024-2025.
All naval academy students have been commissioned.
Student.
Chase Brahaney, pure math major, 2021-2023.
Law School, TBC.
Fall 2022 Budapest Semesters in Mathematics.
Research Student.
Paul Zimmer, pure mathematics research student, 2020-2021.
Graduate School, TBC.
Fall 2021 research poster
Spring 2021 research slides
Spring 2021 research poster
Academic Advisees.
Raymond Cecere, academic advisee, 2023-2024.
Juan Figuera-Parra, academic advisee, 2023-2024.
Tyler Jordan, academic advisee, 2023-2024.
A semester at the Korea Naval Academy.
Brian O'Leary, academic advisee, 2023-2024.
Lauren White, academic advisee, 2023-2024.
A semester of Voluntary Graduate Education Program (VGEP) at Johns Hopkins University.
William Everton, academic advisee, 2022-2024.
Isabella Leggett, academic advisee, 2022-2024.
Graham Rose, academic advisee, 2022-2024.
Jaxon Foertsch, academic advisee, 2021-2024.
Michael Heller, academic advisee, 2021-2024.
Wesley Kim, academic advisee, 2021-2024.
Brendan Munnelly, academic advisee, 2021-2024.
John Meagher, academic advisee, 2020-2024.
MaryClare Oliver, academic advisee, 2019-2024.
Spring 2023 Budapest Semesters in Mathematics and Languages.
Mitchell Waters, academic advisee, 2019-2024.
Jin Heung Yoo, academic advisee, 2019-2024.
Fall 2021 Korea Naval Academy.
Andrew Romero, academic advisee, 2020-2023.
Jamie Romo, academic advisee, 2020-2023.
Isabelle Thornburg, academic advisee, 2020-2022.
Margaret Babbitt, academic advisee, 2019-2021.
Plebe (Freshmen) Advisees.
Samantha (Sam) Bollinger, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Titan Case, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Victoria (Tori) DiCarlo, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Benjamin Grieb, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Haley Harris, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Aidan Hogan, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Matthew Lexa, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Erin Nicastro, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Parvathi Shanker, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Corinna (Cora) Skidmore, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Ronnell (RJ) Spears, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
James Thomas, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Honors Senior Thesis (Reader).
Ben Rainear, Spring 2022, "Integers represented by ternary quadratic forms".
MGSP Advisees (peer tutoring).
Addison (Addy) Schofield, MGSP (peer tutor for SM208 Data Science) advisee, Jan - May 2024.
Loren Steinberg, MGSP (peer tutor for SM208 Data Science) advisee, Jan - May 2024.
Loren Steinberg, MGSP (peer tutor for SM208 Data Science) advisee, Aug - Dec 2023.
Jonathan Briggs, MGSP (peer tutor for SM121 Calculus I) advisee, Aug - Dec 2023.
Thomas Jennings, MGSP (peer tutor for SM121 Calculus I) advisee, Aug - Dec 2023.
Daniel Mullan, MGSP (peer tutor for SM212 Differential Equations) advisee, Jan - May 2023.
Soleil Xie, MGSP (peer tutor for SM208 Data Science) advisee, Jan - May 2023.
Karl Florida, MGSP (peer tutor for SM212 Differential Equations) advisee, Aug - Dec 2022.
Brett Bonin, MGSP (peer tutor for SM208 Data Science) advisee, Jan - May 2022.
Sebastian Martin, MGSP (peer tutor for SM221, SM221P, and SM223 Vector Calculus III, Vector Calculus III for freshmen, Calculus III) advisee, Aug - Dec 2021.
Columbia University Mentee.
Zachary Adam Lihn, pure mathematics undergraduate student, 2022-2025.
PhD student at Harvard University, 2025-2030.
Goldwater Scholar, 2025-2030.
Remy Kaldawy, pure mathematics undergraduate student, 2022-2024.
University of Georgia Mentee.
Joseph (Joe) Lang, pure mathematics undergraduate student, 2022-2023.
All military academy students have been commissioned.
Research Students.
Anton Nelson, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, with Honors, 2019.
Pure mathematics research student, 2017-2018.
Research in invariants of knot theory using skein relations and Chern-Simons theory.
Nicolette (Nikki) Marie Jimenez, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, with Honors, 2016-2017.
Thesis: Constructing symplectic varieties.
Research Assistant and Graduate Program, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, declined.
Federal advisory consultant, analytics division, Deloitte, Washington D.C., 2017-2023.
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, MBA, 2023-2025.
Lisa Marie Jones, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science, with Honors, 2015-2016.
One course away from Bachelor of Science in Physics, with Honors (refused to take a certain one course).
Thesis: On invariants and semi-invariants of filtered quiver representations of k-Kronecker and n-Jordan quivers.
2016 Winston Churchill Scholar (page 9), Master in Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 2016-2017.
U.S. Army, Operational Cyber Unit, Washington D.C., 2017-2019.
National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship (6 years), 2016-2022.
Awarded but declined NSA Research Fellowship, 2016-2018.
Awarded but declined DARPA Graduate Fellowship, 2016-2018.
2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellow (3 years), Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2019-2022.