Research Group

Current Graduate Students

• Tianyu Kong, (jointly advised with Alex Watson) University of Minnesota Dissertation Fellowship 2025-6, 

• Drake Clark, DDF Graduate Fellowship, 2023-26.

Current Postdocs

• Michael Hott, Simons Postdoc, 2022-25, 

• Jack Thomas, Simons Postdoc, 2025-

Former Graduate Students

• San-Yih Lin, Ph.D. 1987. Professor in the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Republic of China.

• Robert Cohen, Ph.D. 1988. Developing models and software for Statistical Analysis Systems.

• Charles Collins, Ph.D. 1990. Professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• Tsong-Whay Pan, Ph.D. 1990. Professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Houston.

• Li Sheng, Ph.D. 1990. Founding partner, Vice President of Business Development, Global Angels.

• Ling Ma, Ph.D. 1991. Systems at Tudor Investment Corporation

• Xiao-long Shih, Ph.D. 1996. Working on statistical modeling for Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

• Bo Li, Ph.D. 1996. Professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego.

• James Riordan, Ph.D. 1997. Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

• Julia Liakhova Ph.D. 1999. Finance Manager at US Bank.

• Pavel Belik, Ph.D. 2000. Professor at Augsburg College.

• Tianyu Zhang, Ph.D. 2006. Professor at Montana State Univeristy, Bozeman.

• Matthew Dobson, Ph.D. 2009. Associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

• Brian Van Koten, Ph.D. 2012. Tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

• Xingjie Helen Li, Ph.D. 2012. Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

• Derek Olson, Ph.D. 2016. Postdoc at RPI, 2016-19. Technical Staff, Third Wave Systems, 2020-.

• Andrew Binder, Ph.D. 2017. Technical Staff, RTX Corp.

• Daniel Massatt , Ph.D. 2018. NJIT, 2025-

• Gabriel Jung Heon Song , Ph.D. 2020, research mathematician at Samsung Corporation, 2020-

• Diyi Liu , Ph.D. 2025, research postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2025-

Former Postdocs

• Jonathan Luke, 1987–89, Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

• Yalchin Efendiev, 1999–2001, Mobil Chair in Computational Science, Texas A & M, 2014 ICM Invited

• Lecture.

• Pierre Gremaud, 1991–94, Professor, North Carolina State University.

• John Lowengrub, 1992–93, Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Irvine.

• Andreas Prohl, 1996–97, Professor, University of Tuebingen.

• Martin Kruzik ,1996–98, Department Head, Inst. of Inform. Theory and Automation, Academy of Sci. of

• the Czech Republic.

• Bruce Ayati, 1998–2000, Professor, University of Iowa.

• Marcel Arndt, 2006–8, Researcher, BMW Munich.

• Frederic Legoll, 2004–2005, Researcher, Ecole de Pont, ParisTech, Paris.

• Xiantao Li, 2004–2005, Professor, Penn State University.

• Gideon Simpson, 2011–3, Associate Professor, Drexel University.

• David Aristoff, 2011–4, Associate Professor, Colorado State University.

• Alexander Shapeev, 2011–4, SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, associate professor at Skolkovo Institute of

• Science and Technology, Moscow.

• Michael White, 2013–15, Synaptics.

• Paul Cazeaux, 2014–2017. Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech.

• Matthias Maier, 2015–2018. Tenure Track Associate Professor, Texas A & M University.

• Brittan Farmer, 2015–2018. Researcher, Boeing Aerospace Corporation.

• Vera Andreeva, 2017–2020. Researcher, KLA.

• Andrew Binder, 2016–, researcher at RTX Corporation.

• Alexander Watson, 2020–23, DMREF postdoc, currently tenure-track assistant professor, University of Minnesota.

• Solomon Quinn, 2023-24, Dunham Jackson and Simons postdoc (joint with Alex Watson), current Simons Flatiron Postdoc.