Postdoc Alumni
Virginia Tech Mathematics is proud of the vibrant community of scholars who have been part of our postdoctoral program. Our alumni continue to advance mathematics through research, teaching, and innovation at institutions and organizations around the world. Information on recent postdocs is found below.
Delio Jaramillo Velez: 2026
PhD: 2023, Cinvestav, Mexico
Mentor: Hiram López
Research interests: machine-federated learning, coding theory, combinatorial commutative algebra
Next position: Beatriz Galindo distinguished professor at the University of La Laguna, Spain
Chi Hong Chow: 2025-2026
PhD: 2022, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mentor: Leonardo Mihalcea
Research interests: enumerative geometry, mirror symmetry, Gamma conjectures
Next position: Postdoctoral fellow at Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IMPU), Tokyo
Milo Bechtloff Weising: 2024-2026
PhD: 2023, University of California, Davis
Mentor: Daniel Orr
Research interests: algebraic combinatorics, representation theory
Irit Huq-Kuruvilla: 2023-2025
PhD: 2023, University of California Berkeley
Mentor: Leonardo Mihalcea
Research interests: enumerative geometry, mathematical physics
Next position: Postdoctoral researcher at Academia Sinica in Taiwan
Eduardo Camps Moreno: 2023-2025
PhD: 2023, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Mentor: Gretchen Matthews
Research interests: coding theory, quantum error correction
Next position: Postdoctoral fellow at the Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, France
Pedro Soto: 2024-2025
PhD: 2022, City University of New York
Mentor: Gretchen Matthews
Research interests: coding theory, distributed computing, algebraic computing, machine learning, theory of computation
Emily McMillon: 2023-2024
PhD: 2022, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mentor: Gretchen Matthews
Research interests: coding theory, cryptography, graph theory
Next position: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University
Giuseppe Cotardo: 2022-2024
PhD: 2022, University College Dublin, Ireland
Mentor: Gretchen Matthews
Research interests: coding theory, complexity theory, combinatorics
Next position: Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech
Weihong Xu: 2022-2024
PhD: 2022, Rutgers University
Mentor: Leonardo Mihalcea
Research interest: enumerative geometry, algebraic combinatorics
Next position: Harry Bateman Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow at the California Institute of Technology
Wellington Santos: 2021-2023
PhD: 2019, Federal University of Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba-PR, Brazil
Mentor: Gretchen Matthews
Research interests: coding theory, algebraic geometric codes, poset metric codes, cryptography
Next position: Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout
Rahul Singh: 2019-2021
PhD: 2019, Northeastern University
Mentor: Leonardo Mihalcea
Research interests: algebraic geometry, algebraic combinatorics
Next position: Postdoctoral Associate at The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM)
George Psaromiligkos: 2021-2023
PhD: 2020, Michigan State University
Mentor: Eyvindur Palsson
Research interests: harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory
Next position: Adjunct professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece
Priyanka Sinha: 2024-2026
PhD: 2021, North Carolina State University
Mentor: Eric de Sturler
Research interests: optimization, machine learning, inverse problems
Jiuhua Hu: 2024-2026
PhD: 2021, Texas A&M University
Mentor: Yingda Cheng and Daniel Appelö
Research interests: multiscale methods, numerical analysis, scientific computing
Ping-Hsuan Tsai: 2024-2026
PhD: 2023, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mentor: Traian Iliescu
Research interests: model order reduction, data-driven modeling, computational fluid dynamics, machine learning
Next position: Assistant professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan
Max Heldman: 2023-2026
PhD: 2022, Boston University
Mentor: Johann Rudi
Research interests: numerical analysis
Jorge Reyes: 2023-2026
PhD: 2023, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Mentor: Traian Iliescu
Research interests: numerical analysis, fluid dynamics, turbulence, finite element method, reduced order modeling
Next position: Assistant professor at the Texas State University
Shixu Meng: 2024-2025
PhD: 2016, University of Delaware
Mentor: Yingda Cheng
Research interests: inverse problem and imaging, waves in complex media, machine learning
Next position: Assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas
Petar Mlinarić: 2021-2024
PhD: 2020, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany
Mentor: Serkan Gugercin
Research interests: model order reduction
Next position: Assistant professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jeffrey McGuire: 2020-2021
PhD: 2020, Virginia Tech
Mentors: Traian Iliescu and Raffaella De Vita
Research interests: model reduction, solid mechanics, material characterization
Next position: Research and design engineer at Align Technology
Kyle Dahlin: 2023-2026
PhD: 2020, Purdue University
Mentors: Lauren Childs and Michael Robert
Research interests: mathematical ecology, vector-borne diseases
Next position: Assistant professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Leah LeJeune: 2023-2026
PhD: 2023, University of Louisiana at LaFayette
Mentors: Lauren Childs
Research interests: mathematical biology, dynamical systems, ordinary differential equations
Next position: Assistant professor at Cleveland State University
Keoni Castellano: 2024-2025
PhD: 2024, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mentor: Stanca Ciupe and Omar Saucedo
Research interests: mathematical biology, mathematics education
Next position: Upper School Math Teacher at Laurel School in Cleveland, Ohio
Sümeyye Bakim: 2023-2024
PhD: 2021, İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi, Turkey
Mentor: Nicole Abaid
Research interests: complex networks, mathematical modeling, behavioral dynamics, inequalities
Next position: Assistant professor at KTO Karatay University, Turkey
Laura Strube: 2020-2022
PhD: 2018, University of Utah
Mentor: Lauren Childs
Research interests: disease outbreak dynamics, mathematical modeling of waning and boosting immunity, ordinary differential equation studies
Next position: Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh
Joseph Antonides: 2022-2025
PhD: 2022, The Ohio State University
Mentor: Anderson Norton
Research interests: mathematics education, constructivism, spatial reasoning
Next position: Assistant professor at Colorado State University
Michael Hicks: 2021-2023
PhD: 2021, Texas State University
Mentor: Estrella Johnson
Research interests: abstract algebra, analogical reasoning, mathematical authority, RUME
Next position: Assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University
Madhavi Vishnubhotla: 2020-2021
PhD: 2020, Montclair State University
Mentor: Estrella Johnson
Research interests: student learning, teacher learning, mathematics education
Next position: Assistant professor at The New School