Team

Current PhD Students

Past PhD Students

1. Brian Barch, (Ph.D Physics 2025), Locality and Complexity in non-Hermitian Quantum Systems, placement as postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab

2. Elif Uskuplu, (Ph.D Math 2023), Formalizing two-level type theory with cofibrant exo-nat, placement as  Zorn’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington.

3. Mark Ebert (Ph.D. Math 2023), The structure and higher representation theory of odd categorified quantum sl(2), placement as postdoc at UCLA

4. 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

5. Nicolle Sandoval Gonzalez (Ph.D 2019),  "Categorical operators and crystal structures on the ring of symmetric functions", placement UCLA Presidential Postdoc UCLA

6. Can Ozan Oğuz  (Ph.D. 2018), Dissertation title "Center and Trace of the Twisted Heisenberg Category ", Currently Assistant Professor Galatasaray University, Turkey.

7. Ilknur Egilmez (Ph.D. 2018), Dissertation title "DG structures on categorified quantum groups", Currently Applied Scientist Amazon

8. Laffite Lamberto-Egan (Ph.D 2016), Dissertation title "A categorified braid group action"

9. Mike Abram (PhD 2015), Dissertation title: "Symmetries of categorified quantum groups"

Masters Students

1. Amelia Stone, (M.S. 2014)

2. Juan Fernando Valdes Cruz, (M.S. 2017) Master's Student at CIMAT Mexico, Master's Thesis title ``Categorification and combinatorics of Schubert polynomials

3. Zejing Wang (M.S. 2024)