My former research students and what they’re up to now
Current postdoc
- Jeff Belding
Current and former PhD students
- Sarani Aththanayaka (graduating 2028)
- Thesis topic: PDE-constrained optimization in agriculture
- Abubakarr Yillah (2026)
- Thesis: Characterizing Atherosclerosis with PDE-Constrained Optimization
- Now a lecturer at Yale University
- Kohl James (2025, coadvised with Lourdes Juan)
- Thesis: Preconditioning for Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods Applied to Nonlinear Time-Dependent PDEs
- Now an assistant professor at Saginaw Valley State University
- Aman Rani (2024, coadvised with Victoria Howle)
- Thesis topic: preconditioning for implicit Runge-Kutta methods
- Now a postdoc at Johns Hopkins and NIST
- Michael Clines (2023, co-advised with Victoria Howle)
- Thesis: Optimality Theorems and Numerical Results on Block Preconditioners for Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods Applied to PDEs in Engineering and Biophysics
- Now at Blink Thermal
- Md Masud Rana (2021, coadvised with Victoria Howle and Angela Peace)
- Thesis: New Models and Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations Applied to Spatial Stoichiometric Aquatic Ecosystems
- Now an assistant professor at Kennesaw State University in Georgia
- Josh Engwer (2018)
- Thesis: Partitioned Implicit Runge-Kutta Timesteppers for Micromagnetics with Eddy Currents
- Now works in data management for TTU
- Bimali Jayasinghe (2018)
- Thesis: An analysis of block Verlet timestepping with lagged force evaluation for the gravitational N -body problem
- Now on the faculty of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
- Simon Rush (2018)
- Thesis: Real-Time Simulation of Fluid Flow Based on Sensor Data Using Reduced-Order Modeling
- Now a quantitative analyst at USAA
- Chandani Dissanayake (2016, coadvised with Angela Peace)
- Thesis: Finite element simulation of space/time behavior in a two-species ecological stoichiometric model
- Now on the faculty of the Sri Lanka Technological College
- Senay Tewolde (2015)
- Thesis: A Model for Noninvasive Detection of Eye Tumor and Core Body Temperature Estimation by Ocular Surface Temperature
- Founder and CEO of Blink Thermal
- Richard Erickson (2013)
- Thesis: Quantifying the Effect of Toxicants on Ecological Populations
- Now at the USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory
- In 2025, Richie won a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering
MS students
- Eric Murray (computational scientist at Raytheon)
- Brad Armstrong (scientific programmer at Raytheon)
- Kimberly Kennedy (game designer at Konami Gaming)
- Vipin Palande (teaching at Puna University)
- Jed Goelkhe (graduate student in applied math, Rice University)
- Kaleb McKale (mathematician at the US Department of Defense)
- Jon Milhollan (co-advised with Ram Iyer) (now at Naval Research Laboratories)
Undergraduate research students
- Current
- Former (TTU)
- Elliott Walker
- Ian Wilson
- Harold Margeta-Cacace
- Jacob Slocum
- Tyler Moser
- Jackson Kulik (PhD in applied math from Cornell, 2024; now assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Utah State)
- Luciano Pinheiro
- William Milestone (now a grad student in EE at TTU)
- Madeleine Brown
- Max Zhelazhnykov (now a grad student in EE at U. Washington)
- Brody Moore (now a grad student in Materials Science at UNT)
- Former (SUNY)
- John Chase
- Arup Barat
Student Interns
- Sandia
- Catherine Beni (Caltech)
- Andy Terrell (Chicago)
- Jill Reese (NCSU)
- Patricia Howard (Rice)
- Allen Harvey (SUNY)
- Clemens Kadow (Carnegie Mellon)
- Mike Boldt (St. John’s)
- John Gentile (SUNY)
- BEAM
- Adam Florence (Cornell)
