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Research and Academic Students

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD USA

Postdocs.

• Mengwei Hu  (2026 - 2029).

• Matthew Hamil  (2025 - 2026).

• Haihan Wu  (2024 - 2026).

  • • • Postdoc at the University of Virginia.

PhD Students.

• TBA

Research Students.

• 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 research student,  2025-2026.

• Cornell Holmes,  pure mathematics undergraduate research student,  2025-2026.

• Thanh Tran,  pure mathematics undergraduate research student,  2025-2026.

• Catherine (Catie) Lillja,  pure 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 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.

• Tomas Mejia Gomez,  pure mathematics doctoral student (part of research group),  2024-2025.

  • • • Postdoc at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Graduate Board Oral  (GBO)  Exam,  Thesis Proposal.

• Daiyue Sun  (PhD),  Developing models of galvanotaxis coupling cell polarity and shape (TBC), 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,  2025-2026.

• Tomas Mejia Gomez (PhD),  Link homologies, Bott-Samelson spaces and twisted cohomology,  Mathematics,  examiner,  2024-2025.

  • • • Postdoc at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

• 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.

United States Naval Academy

Annapolis, MD USA

Student.

• Chase Brahaney,  pure math major,  2021-2023.

  • • • Fall 2022 Budapest Semesters in Mathematics

Research Student.

• Paul Zimmer,  pure mathematics research student,  2020-2021.

  • • • 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.

United States MIlitary AcademY

West Point, NY USA

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.