Graduate Students

Current PhD Students:

Former PhD Students:

2024

• Arianna Cecco. Advisor: David Blecher and Mehrdad Kalantar. Thesis: A Systematic Study of Injective Envelopes

• Homayoon Shobeiri. Advisor: Mehrdad Kalantar. Thesis: On Additivity Problems for the Regularized Minimum Output Entropy of Quantum Channels

2023

• Nikolaos Panagopoulos. Advisor: Mehrdad Kalantar. Thesis: On invariant subalgebras of group C*  and von Neumann algebras

2022

• Ahmed Abouserie. Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann. Thesis: Phase Retrieval for Finitely-Supported Complex Measures via the Fourier Transform

2021

• Sarah Chehade. Advisor: Anna Vershynina. Thesis: Saturating Quantum Relative Entropy Inequalities

• Tattwamasi Amrutam. Advisor: Mehrdad Kalantar. Thesis: Structure of Intermediate C*-subalgebras of discrete group actions

2020

• Dylan Domel-White. Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann. Thesis: Phase Retrieval from Random One-Bit Measurements

• Worawit Tepsan. Advisor: David Blecher. Thesis: Real Operator Spaces, Real Operator Algebras and Real Jordan Operator Algebras

2019

• Zhenhua Wang. Advisor: David Blecher. Thesis: Theory of Jordan Operator Algebras and Operator *-Algebras.

• Mozahid Haque. Advisor: Mark Tomforde. Thesis: Endomorphisms of Leavitt Path Algebras.

2018

• Robert Mendez. Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann. Thesis: Binary Frames, Codes and Euclidean Embeddings.

2017

• Alex Bearden. Advisor: David Blecher. Thesis: Hilbert C*-modules over Σ*-algebras.

• Nishant Suri. Advisor: Mark Tomforde. Thesis: Naimark's Problem for Graph C*-algebras.

• James West. Advisor: Mark Tomforde. Thesis: Two Problems in Graph Algebras and Dynamical Systems.

2016

• Nicole Leonhard, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Correlation Minimizing Frames.

• Wai Hin "Ricky" Ng, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Tensor Products of Operator Systems via Factorization.

• Da Zheng, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: The Operator System Generated by Cuntz Isometries and its Applications.

2015

• Carlos Ortiz, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Graph Parameters via Operator Systems.

• Nathaniel Hammen , Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann, Thesis: Stable Phase Retrieval Using Low-Redundancy Frames of Polynomials.

• John Haas, Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann, Thesis: The Geometry of Structured Parseval Frames and Frame Potentials.

• Tristan Whalen, Advisor: Mark Tomforde, Thesis: Classification of Leavitt Path Algebras using algebraic K-theory.

2013

• Maureen Royce, Advisor: David Blecher, Thesis: Extensions of Approximately Unital Operator Algebras.

2012

• Pankaj Singh, Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann, Thesis: Frames as Codes for Strcutured Erasures.

2011

• Melahat Almus, Advisor: David Blecher, Thesis: Structure in Operator Algebras.

• Helen Elwood, Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann, Thesis: Constructing Complex Equiangular Parseval Frames.

• Ali Kavruk, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Tensor Products of Operator Systems and Applications.

2010

• Sneh Lata, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: The Feichtinger Conjecture and Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.

• Preeti Singh, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Applications of Finite Groups to Parseval Frames.

• Meghna Mittal, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Function Theory on the Quantum Annulus and Other Domains.

2009

• Sonia Sharma, Advisor: David Blecher, Thesis: One-Sided M-Structure of Operator Spaces and Operator Algebras.

• Blerina Xhabli, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Universal Operator System Structures on Ordered Spaces and their Applications.

2008

• Upasana Kashyap, Advisor: David Blecher, Thesis: Morita Equivalence of Dual Operator Algebras.

• Mrinal Raghupathi, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Constrained Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation.

2006

• Soha Abdulbaki, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Generalized Sigma-Delta Quantization.

• Damon Hay, Advisor: David Blecher, Thesis: Non-Commutative Topology and Peak Interpolation for Operator Algebras.

• Deepti Kalra, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Equiangular Cyclic Frames.

2003

• Roderick Holmes, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Optimal Frames.

• Masayoshi Kaneda, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Multipliers and Algebrizations of Operator Spaces.

2000

• James Solazzo, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Interpolation and Computability.

1997

• Rajia Khoury, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Closest Matrices in the Space of Doubly Stochastic Matrices.

1996

• Sarah H. Ferguson, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Ext, Analytic Kernels and Operator Ranges.

1995

• Chun Zhang, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Representation and Geometry of Operator Spaces.

1992

• Che-Chen "Peter" Chu, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Finite Dimensional Representations of Function Algebras.

1991

• Terry Richard Tiballi, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: Symmetric Orthogonalization of Vectors in Hilbert Space. 

1983

• Ching-yun Suen, Advisor: Vern Paulsen, Thesis: The Representation Theory of Completely Bounded Maps on C*-algebras.