Postdoc Alumni

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