Students

Ye Tian Ph.D. student working on a compressive sensing approach for graph/network clustering.

Zhaiming Shen Ph.D. 2024 working on graph/network clustering and the breakage of the curse of dimensionality. He is now a postdoc at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jinsil Lee Ph.D. 2023 working on multivariate splines for numerical solution of partial differential equations. She was a postdoc at Ewah Woman's University, Seoul, Korea in 2023 and now is a postdoc at Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Tsung-wei Hu Ph.D. 2023 working on constructive smooth interpolatory curves and surfaces. He is now a postdoc at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

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Kenneth Allen Ph.D. Dec. 2021 working on matrix and tensor completion. He was an intern at Oak Ridge National Labs before graduation. He is a mathematical model analyst in Northrop Grunman.

Yidong Xu Ph.D. Dec. 2019. working on optimization for multicariate splines for data fitting and numerical solution of PDE. His dissertation can be found here . Now he returns to his home in Shanghai, China.

Daniel McKenzie Ph.D. Aug. 2019 working on graph/network clustering. A paper based his dissertation can be found here. It is published on SIAM J. Math. Data Science in 2020. Now he is a postdoc at UCLA. Check his webpage for more detail by clicking his name.

He is an assistant professor at Colorado School of Mines.

Clayton Mersmann Ph.D. graduated in Aug, 2019 working on numerical solution of Helmholtz equation and Maxwell equations. See his dissertation here. He is now an assistant professor atUniversity of South Florida. He is an econometrical consultant in Analsis Group.

James Lanterman Ph.D. graduated in May, 2018 working on constructing smooth polygonal elements and polygonal splines over quadrilatral partitions. His dissertation can be found here . He works for IHG.

Abrahm Varghese Ph.D. in May, 2018 working on matrix completion. He graduated in May, 2018. His dissertation can be found here . He was an assistant professor at Shenandoah University, Virginia. He is now a quantitative analyst in Fannie Mae.

George Slavov Ph.D. graduated in Aug. 2016 working on numerical solution of diffusion-reaction equation and predator-prey system of PDE by using multivariate splines. His dissertation title is "Bivariate Spline Solution to a Class of Reaction-Diffussion equations." He works for a hedge fund company in his hometwon in Bulgaria.

Leopold Matamba Messi Ph.D. graduated in Aug. 2013 working on numerical solution of nonlinear PDE by using multivariate splines. He graduated in Aug. 2012. His dissertation title is "Theoretical and Numerical Approximation of the Rudin-Osher-Fetami model for image denoising in the continuous setting." He is a postdoc position at Mathematical Biology Institute, Ohio State University.

Qiangying Hong Ph.D., graduated in Aug. 2011. Her dissertation title is Bivariate Splines in variational models for image enhancements. She is now a lecturer at University of Kansas, Lawrenceville, Kansas.

Louis Yang Liu Ph.D., graduated in August, 2010. His dissertation is Non-convex Optimization for Linear System with Pre-Gaussian Matrices and Recovery from Multiple Measurements. He was an assistant professor at the College of William and Mary in fall, 2011 and Spring, 2012. He is now a visiting assisitant professor at Michigan State University.

Bree Ettinger Ph.D., graduated in August, 2009. Her dissertation title is Bivariate Splines for Ozone Concentration Prediction. She is a postdoctorate at a university in Milan, Italy. She is now a lecturer at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University.

Haipeng Liu Ph.D., graduated in August, 2007. His dissertation title is Prewavelets for Numerical Solution of PDE's. He is a lecturer at Georgia State University.

Jianbao Wu Ph.D., graduated in August, 2007. His dissertation title is Spherical Splines for Hermite Interpolation and Surface Design.

Okkyung Cho Ph.D., graduated in August, 2006.Her dissertation title is Construction of Compactly Supported Multiwavelets.She is an assistant professor at Montgomery College.

Jie Zhou Ph.D., graduated in August, 2006. His dissertation title is Construction of Orthonormal Wavelets of Dilation Factor 3 with Application in Image Compression and A New Construction of Multivariate Compactly Supported Tight Frame. He is a tenure track assistant professor at Coastal Carolina University in the fall, 2007.

Victoria Baramidze Ph.D., graduated in August, 2005. Her dissertation title is Spherical Splines for Scattered Data Fitting. She is a full professor at West Illinois University. She has been the department head since 2019.

Kyunglin Nam Ph.D., graduated in August, 2005. Her dissertation title is "Tight Wavelet Frame Construction and Its Application for Image Processing". She was a visiting assistant professor at University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. Now she is an instructor at Baylor University.

Gerard Awanou Ph.D., graduated in August, 2003. His dissertation title is "Energy Methods for Numerical Solution of 3D Navier-Stokes Equations by Trivariate Splines". After post-doc working at IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications) at the University of Minnesota for two years, he is now an associate professor at North Illinois University. He has been an associate professor at University of Illinois at Chicago since Fall, 2012.

Xiangming Xu Ph.D., graduated in May, 2001. His dissertation title is Construction of Two-Dimensional Non-separable of Orthonormal Wavelets of Short Support. He is a research scientist at Telchemy Inc., Sewanee, GA.

Wenjie He Ph.D., graduated in August, 1998. His dissertation title is Compactly Supported Multivariate Multiwavelets: Theory and Constructions. He is now an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, the University of Missouri at St. Louis, Missouri.

Richard Tatum Masters of Applied Mathematics and Sciences, graduated in August, 1999. He now works at Naval Surface Warfare Center, VA.

Victoria Baramidze Masters of Applied Mathematics and Sciences, graduated in August, 1999. Her thesis title is Existence, Uniqueness and Convergence of Cubic and Quintic Smoothing Splines . She is now a Ph.D., student of Dept. of Math., Univ. of Georgia.

Kathleen Farmer Masters of Sciences, graduated in August, 1997. Her thesis title is Scattered Data Interpolation by C² Quintic Splines Using Energy Minimization. She is now an instructor at Department of Mathematics, North Lousiana State University.

Jiangxiang Liu Masters of Sciences, graduated in August, 1995. He was a Ph.D., student at Dept. of Computer Sciences, Yale Univ. in Fall, 1995.