In Fall 2015 and Spring 2016, Clemson’s Graduate Program in Mathematical Sciences awarded six Ph.D. degrees and eleven M.S. degrees. Some graduates of the program will apply their knowledge and skills to positions in academia and industry, while others will continue their studies at a higher level. These degrees are the culmination of years of hard work, unyielding determination, intense mathematical ability, and excellent faculty advising.
The graduates’ names, advisors’ names, and disquisition titles are listed below. Photographs and current/future positions are also included where available.
Please join us in congratulating our newest graduates for their outstanding accomplishments!
PhD Fall 2015
Hewa Arachchige Anuradha Priyadarshani
Advisors: Dr. R. Lund and Dr. Y. Li
Dissertation title: Bayesian Minimum Description Length Techniques for Multiple Changepoint Detection
Current position: Senior lecturer grade II, University of Kelaniya, Dalugama, Sri Lanka
Shiyi Tu
Advisor: Dr. X. Sun
Dissertation title: Objective Bayesian Analysis on the Quantile Regression Advisor
Current position: Financial Analyst at Bank of America
PhD Spring 2016
Michael Dowling
Advisor: Dr. S. Gao
Dissertation title: Exponder Graphs and Good Codes
Rachel Grotheer
Advisor: Dr. T. Khan
Dissertation title: Hyperspectial Diffuse Optical Tomography using the Reduced Basis Method and Sparsity Constraints
Fall position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Goucher College in Towson, MD.
Jason Hedetniemi
Advisor: Dr. K. James
Dissertation title: Problems in Domination and Graph Products
Honghai Xu
Advisor: Dr. W. Goddard
Dissertation title: Generalized Colorings of Graphs
MS Fall 2015
Kevin Wayne Dettman
Advisor: Dr. M. Wiecek
Thesis title: Bi-Objective Quadratic Optimization with Application to Portfolio Selection
Haodong Li
Advisor: Dr. M. Mitkovski
Thesis title: Multiplier Operators on Framed Hilbert Space
Current position: Clemson Mathematical Sciences PhD program
Monica Deni Moralex-Hernandez
Advisor: Dr. L. Rebholz
Thesis title: Some new Results for Leray -x discretization
Current position: Clemson Mathematical Sciences PhD program
MS Spring 2016
Travis Baumbaugh
Advisor: Dr. F. Manganiello
Thesis title: Results on Common Left/Right Divisors of Skew Polynomials
Current position: Clemson Mathematical Sciences PhD program
Rebecca Knoll
Advisor: Dr. L. Rebholz
Thesis title: On the Optimal Parameter Choice of Steady NSE with Grad-Div
Current/future position: Mathematics instructor, Rockbridge Academy in Millersville, MD
Michael Lamoreux
Advisor: Dr. A. Brown
Thesis title: Empirical Null Estimation via Central Matching with Application to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Matthew Menard
Advisor: Dr. C. Williams
Thesis title: Study of the Fisher-Tippett Theorem with Applications to Problems in Actuarial Science
Current position: Clemson Mathematical Sciences PhD program
Stefani Mokalled
Advisor: Dr. C. McMahan
Thesis title: Estimating Biomarker Distributions via Pooled Assessments
Current/future position: Research Assistant in biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Lee Phillips
Advisor: Dr. W. Adams
Thesis title: Solvable Cases of the QAP Explained by the Level – 1 RLT
Sijun Shen
Advisor: Dr. X. Sun
Thesis title: Evaluating an Individuals use of the Internet and Online Chat rooms to learn about Health Information
Camille Zerfas
Advisor: Dr. L. Rebholz
Thesis title: Sensitivity of the Filtering Radius of the rNS Turbulence Model
Current position: Clemson Mathematical Sciences PhD program
