Spring 2017 Semester
Luke Giberson (PhD)
Advisor: Kevin James
Dissertation: “A Tour Through Frobenius Distributions of Elliptic Curves”
Currently at the National Security Agency
Brandon Goodell (PhD)
Advisor: Jim Coykendall
Dissertation: “Assessing Non-Atomicity in Group of Divisibility”
Currently at Monero Research Lab/Postdoc. Researcher
Sherli Koshy Chenthittayil (PhD)
Advisor: Elena Dimitrova
Dissertation: “Chaos to Permanence: Through Control Theory”
Currently at Postdoc. Fellow/Univ. of Connecticut
Sanjog Kulkarni (MS)
Advisor: William Bridges
Project Defense: “Worker’s Compensation Claims-Data Analysis”
Currently a High School Math Teacher/Aldine ISD/Houston, TX
Drew Lipman (PhD)
Advisor: Michael Burr
Dissertation: “Normal Domains Arising from Graph Theory”
Currently at Hyper Giant (R&D Company)/Austin, TX
Jared Miller (MS)
Advisor: Hyesuk Lee
Project Defense: “Physical Simulation of Fluid Poroelastic Structure Interactions”
Stephen Peele (MS)
Advisor: Wayne Goddard
Project Defense: “Signal Decompositions via Kernel Computations: Computational Aspects and Connections to Homology”
Currently at Lecturer in Math. Sciences/Clemson University
Md. Sakhawat Hossain (MS)
Advisor: William Bridges
Project Defense: “Methods of Variables Selection for Binary Logistic Regression of Pima Indian Diabetes Data”
Currently at PhD Math Student/Texas Tech. University
Summer 2017
Ryan Grove (PhD)
Advisor: Timo Heister
Dissertation: “Discretetizations and Efficiently Linear Solvers for Problems Related to Fluid Flow”
Fiona Knoll (PhD)
Advisor: Shuhong Gao
Dissertation: “Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transformations”
Currently a Visiting Assistant Prof./Univ. of Cincinnati, OH
Lauren Lembcke (MS)
Advisor: Eleanor Jenkins
Project Defense: “Investigation of Decision-Making Methodologies in Water Resource Planning”
Currently a Data Analyst at Regenstrief Institute/Indianapolis, IN
Jing Li (MS)
Advisor: William Bridges
Project Defense: “Data Analysis of Diverse Learning Environment Survey Data”
Currently at Afiniti
Yan Liu (PhD)
Advisor: Chris McMahan
Dissertation: “A Bayesian Generalized Additive Model for Group Testing Data”
Currently an Assistant Prof. of Biostatistics in the School of Community Health Sciences/Univ. of Nevada, Reno
Muhammad Mohebujjam (PhD)
Advisor: Leo Rebholz
Dissertation: “Efficient Numerical Methods for Magnetohydrodynamics Flow”
Currently at Postdoc./Virginia Tech.
Emily Nystrom (PhD)
Advisor: Julia Sharp
Dissertation: “Predictor Omission for Linear and Logistic Regression Models”
Currently at Researcher at SPAWAR/Charleston, SC
Mengcong Ren (MS)
Advisor: William Bridges
Project Defense: “Choosing a Set of Gynecology and Obstetrics Courses for Medical Study in the Greenville Health System”
Currently a Consultant for ERP System
Javier Ruiz Ramirez (PhD)
Advisor: Vince Ervin
Dissertation: “Time-Dependent Stokes-Darcy Flow with Deposition”
Currently at Houston Medical Center/Houston, TX
Yanbo Xia (PhD)
Advisor: Robert Lund
Dissertation: “Parsimonious Space-Time Temperature Series Modeling”
Currently at State Street Bank & Trust/Boston, MA
Tao Yang (PhD)
Advisor: Colin Gallagher
Dissertation: “Adaptive Robost Methodology for Parameter Estimation and Variable Selection”
Currently a Postdoc. & Research Fellow In Bio-statistics at Fred Hutchinson Research Center/Seattle, WA
Fall 2017 Semester
Lauren McIntyre (MS)
Advisor: Chris Cox
Thesis Defense: “Finite Element Methods and a Web Based Calculator for Cross-flow Filtration at Clemson University”
Currently at Data Scientist at NASA Glenn/Cleveland, OH
Aaron Ramirez Flores (PhD)
Advisor: Mishko Mitkovski
Dissertation: “Localization of Generalized Frames in Hilbert Spaces: Symptotic Behavior of Compact and Toeplitz Operators, Sampling and Interpolation, Density Results”
Currently a Full-time Prof. of Undergraduate Math Program at University of El Salvador
Todd Fenstermacher (MS)
Advisor: Jim Coykendall
Project Defense: “Partitioning Parallel Adaptive Geometric Multigrid”
Currently continuing with PhD at Clemson University
Rui Gong (MS)
Advisor: Xiaoqian Sun
Thesis Defense: “Progressive Estimation for Exponential Distributions under Progressive Type-II Right Censored Samples”
Currently continuing with PhD at Clemson University
Kayla Javier (MS)
Advisor: Brian Fralix
Project Defense: “Hysteretic M/M/1 Queue with Random Phase Transitions”
Currently continuing with PhD at Clemson University
Spring 2018 Semester
Kara Stasikelis (PHD)
Advisor: Svetlana Poznanovikj
Dissertation: “Properties of Certain Markov Chains on Linear Extensions of Posets”
Currently Lead Data Scientist/Fifth Third Bank/Cincinnati, OH
April Thomas (PHD)
Advisor:Patrick Gerard
Dissertation: “Estimating Animal Abundance by Employing on External Experiment to Account For Detection and Count Bias with an application to Wintering Ducks in the Mississippi Allovial Valley”
Currently Statistics Coordinator/Clemson University/Clemson, SC
Garrett Dranichak (PHD)
Advisor: Margaret Wiecek
Dissertation: “Robust Solutions to Uncertain Multiobjective Programs”
Currently Senior Systems Research & Analysis Engineerat Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Yibo Xu (PHD)
Advisor: Warren Adams
Dissertation: “Convex Hulls, Relaxations, and Approximations of General Monomials and Multilmear Functions”
Nicholas Ahlstrom (MS)
Advisor: Brian Fralix
Thesis Defense: “Staffing Strategies of Queueing Systems”
Currently in Dunkirk, NY
John Grant (MS)
Advisor: Robert Lund
Thesis Defense: “Some Simple limit Theorems for the Lindley Process”
Currently continuing with PhD at Clemson University
Summer 2018 Semester
Prabhashi Wickramasingha Jayasekara Mererenchige (PhD)
Advisor: Chris McMahan
Dissertation: “Flexible Models for Analyzing Special-Structured Survival Data Using EM Algorithm”
Amy Grady (PhD)
Advisor: Svetlana Poznanovikj
Dissertation: “Generalizations of Permutation Statistics to Words and Labeled Forests”
Lecturer at the University of Florida/Gainesville, FL
Tianhui Wei (PhD)
Advisor: William Bridges
Dissertation: “Variable Selection for Big Data with Sparsity: An Application to GWAS”
Data Scientiest for Lowe’s/Mooresville, NC
Huixi Li (PhD)
Advisor: Jim Brown
Dissertation: “On Some Conjectures in Analytic Number Theory”
Postdoc at University of Nevada/Reno, Nevada
Yisu Jia (PhD)
Advisor: Robert Lund
Dissertation: “Models for Count Time Series”
Assistant Professor at University of North Florida/Jacksonville, FL
Mengying Xiao (PhD)
Advisor: Leo Rebholz
Dissertation: “Efficient and Accurate Splitting Methods for Flow Problems”
Visiting Assistant Professor at math Department of College of William and Mary/VA
Yinggu Bao (PhD)
Advisor: William Bridges
Dissertation: “Analysis of Time Series Data Embedded in an Experiment Design”
Biostatistician in Austin, TX
Xin Gu (MS)
Advisor: Patrick Gerard
Thesis Defense: “Model-Tree Reinforcement Learning with Neural Networks”
Louisa Granzow (MS)
Advisor: Yuyuan Ouyang
Thesis Defense: “Model-Tree Reinforcement Learning with Neural Networks”
Completing Master’s degree in Bremen, Germany
Lu Sun (MS)
Advisor: William Bridges
Thesis Defense: “Maximizing Airbnb Hosts’ Revenue in New York City”
Currently interviewing for jobs in San Francisco, CA
Boyoung Hur (MS)
Advisor: Robert Lund
Thesis Defense: “On Quast – Stationary Distribution of Stochastic SIS Epidemic Model”
Currently continuing with PhD at Clemson University
Jiajing Niu (MS)
Advisor: Andrew Brown
Thesis Defense: “Identification of Differences in Cortical Thickness in Multiple Sclerosis Patients Based on Race”
Currently continuing with PhD at Clemson University
