Current Graduate Students
Current PhD Students (Advanced to Candidacy)
Yuxuan Liu, UCLA, works on mathematical machine learning, applied analysis, and optimization.
Jingmin Sun, CMU, works on mathematical machine learning and optimization.
Current PhD Students (Completed Qualifying Exams)
Tracy Yu, UCLA, works on randomized methods for operator and PDE approximation.
Jacob Murri, UCLA, works on fluid dynamics and nonlocal PDE.
Current Postdoctoral Researchers
Current Postdoctoral Scholars
Daniel Gurevich, PIC Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Prof., 2025-2028
Elisa Negrini, CAM Assistant Adjunct Prof., 2023-2026
Co-mentored Postdoctoral Scholars
Minxin Zhang, PIC Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Prof., 2023-2026, co-mentored with D. Needell
Chunyang Liao, PIC Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Prof., 2023-2026, co-mentored with D. Needell
Former Students and Postdocs
Former Graduate Students
Zhijun Chen, CMU, PhD 2023
Dissertation: "Conditioning of Random Feature Matrices and Sparse Recovery"
Current: Researcher at the National Cancer Institute, NIH
Yifan Sun, CMU, PhD 2023
Dissertation: "Topics on modeling high dimensional time series data"
Current: Algo Quant, Barclays Capital, NYC
Kayla Bollinger, CMU, PhD 2022
Dissertation: "Reduced Order Models and Regression for Applications to Structural Modeling"
Current: Research Analyst at Education Analytics
Linan Zhang, CMU, PhD, 2019
Dissertation: "Sparse Recovery and Deep Learning For Extracting Time-Dependent Models From Data"
See also my mathematics genealogy page
Former Postdoctoral Scholars
Zecheng Zhang, CMU 2022-2024, Current: Assistant Professor