Team
Current PhD Students
Zejing Wang
3rd Year
Math
Filippo Iulianelli
2nd year Physics
(co-advisor)
Jernej Grlj
1st year Math
Current Postdocs
NTT Assistant Professor
Yang Qiu
NTT Assistant Professor
Claire Levaillant
NTT Assistant Professor
Past PhD Students
Mark Ebert (Ph.D. Math 2023), The structure and higher representation theory of odd categorified quantum sl(2), placement as postdoc at UCLA
Namit Anand (Ph.D. Physics 2022), Quantum information-theoretic aspects of chaos, localization, and scrambling, placement Quantum and AI Lab (QuAIL) at NASA Ames Research Center
Nicolle Sandoval Gonzalez (Ph.D 2019), "Categorical operators and crystal structures on the ring of symmetric functions", placement UCLA Presidential Postdoc UCLA
Can Ozan Oğuz (Ph.D. 2018), Dissertation title "Center and Trace of the Twisted Heisenberg Category ", Currently Assistant Professor Galatasaray University, Turkey.
Ilknur Egilmez (Ph.D. 2018), Dissertation title "DG structures on categorified quantum groups", Currently Applied Scientist Amazon
Laffite Lamberto-Egan (Ph.D 2016), Dissertation title "A categorified braid group action"
Mike Abram (PhD 2015), Dissertation title: "Symmetries of categorified quantum groups"
Past Postdocs
Andy Manion (USC Busemann NTT Assistant Professor, 2018-2021)
Aaron Mazel Gee (USC NTT Assistant Professor, 2017-2020)
Jesse Levitt ( USC NTT Assistant Professor, 2016-2019 )
Matthew Hogancamp ( USC NTT Assistant Professor 2016-2019 )
Andrea Appel (USC NTT Assistant Professo,r 2013-2017 )
David Rose (USC Busemann NTT Assistant Professor, 2012-2016 )
Masters Students
Amelia Stone, (M.S. 2014)
Juan Fernando Valdes Cruz, (M.S. 2017) Masters Student at CIMAT Mexico, Masters Thesis title ``Categorification and combinatorics of Schubert polynomials"
Visiting Students
Hoel Queffelec -- visiting graduate student for the Spring 2012 semester from Paris 7 graduated 12/06/2013