Postdoc Alumni
Algebra, Algebraic Geometry & Combinatorics
Dane Skabelund was a postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech from 2019 to 2020.
(Mentor while at VT: Gretchen Matthews)
Welington Santos was a postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech from 2021 to 2023.
(Mentor while at VT: Gretchen Matthews)
Giuseppe Cotardo was a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech from 2022 to 2024. He is currently an assistant professor at Virginia Tech.
(Mentor while at VT: Gretchen Matthews)
Emily McMillon was NSF postdoctoral fellow at Virginia Tech from 2023 to 2024. She is now NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University.
(Mentor while at VT: Gretchen Matthews)
Pedro Soto is a postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech from 2024 to 2025.
(Mentor while at VT: Gretchen Matthews)
Rahul Singh was a postdoc associate at Virginia Tech from 2022-2023. He later joined ICERM as a postdoc associate and is now working in Industry.
(Mentor while at VT: Leonardo Mihalcea)
Weihong Xu was a postdoc associate at Virginia Tech from 2022 to 2024. She is currently a Harry Bateman Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow at California Institute of Technology.
(Mentor while at VT: Leonardo Mihalcea)
Irit Huq-Kuruvilla was Postdoctoral Scholar at Virginia Tech from 2023 to 2025. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
(Mentor while at VT: Leonardo Mihalcea)
Analysis
George Psaromiligkos was a postdoc associate at Virginia Tech from 2021-2023. He is now an instructor at University of Thessaly.
(Mentor while at VT: Eyvindur Palsson)
Applied and Computational Mathematics
Omer San was a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech from 2012 to 2014. He first joined the University of Notre Dame as a postdoctoral scholar and is now an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
(Mentor while at VT: Traian Iliescu)
Andrew Duggleby was a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech from 2006 to 2007. He first joined Texas A&M University as an assistant professor and is the CTO and co-founder at Venus Aerospace.
(Mentor while at VT: Traian Iliescu)
Muhammad Mohebujjaman was a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech from 2012 to 2014. He first joined MIT as a postdoctoral scholar and is now an Associate professor at University of Alabama, Birmingham.
(Mentor while at VT: Traian Iliescu)
Jeffrey McGuire was a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech from 2021 to 2022. He joined Align Technology.
(Mentor while at VT: Traian Iliescu and R. De Vita (Mechanical Engineering, VT))
Petar Mlinaric was a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech from 2021 to 2024. He is now an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb.
(Mentor while at VT: Serkan Gugercin)
Saifon Chaturantabut was a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech from 2011 to 2013. He first joined Thammasat University as an assistant professor and is now an associate professor at Thammasat University.
(Mentor while at VT: Serkan Gugercin)
Shixu Meng was a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech from 2024 to 2025. He is currently an assistant professor at University of Texas at Dallas.
(Mentor while at VT: Yingda Cheng)
Mathematical Biology
Sumeyye Bakim was a postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech from 2023 to 2024. She is currently an assistant professor at KTO Karatay University.
(Mentor while at VT: Nicole Abaid)
Keoni Castellano was a postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech from 2024 to 2025. He is currently teaching at Laurel School.
(Mentor while at VT: Stanca M. Ciupe)
Laura Strube was a postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech from 2020 to 2022. She is currently at University of Pittsburgh as postdoctoral fellow.
(Mentor while at VT: Lauren Childs)
Mathematics Education
Joseph Antonides was a postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech from 2022 to 2025. He is currently an assistant professor at Colorado State University.
(Mentor while at VT: Anderson Norton)
Math Physics
Jake Fillman was a postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech from 2015 to 2019. He is currently an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.
(Mentor while at VT: Mark Embree)