Ph. D Graduates [after 2010] with first Post-PhD Placement

2025

Pamela Guerrero
Thesis: A complete study of BBM type equations
First position: Lecturer, University of Tennessee-Martin

2024

Fayaz MD Ahamed
Thesis: Uniform stability of Von Karman plate with rotational inertia and well-posedness of regularized long wave equation
First position: Consultant, Meta

Sharmin Attique
Thesis: Attractors for Von Karman evolutions with nonlinear frictional damping supported in a boundary layer only
First position: [Not provided], [Not provided]

John Ebert
Thesis: Structure of a sequence with prescribed zero-sum subsequences in rank two Abelian groups
First position: Lecturer, Athens Technical College

Luhang Han
Thesis: Bayesian approach of clustering one-dimensional data and identifying pattern of two-dimensional data via standardized statistics
First position: [Not provided], University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

Alexander Jefferson
Thesis: [Not provided]
First position: [Not provided], [Not provided]

Madhumita Roy
Thesis: Longtime behavior of wave and plate equations
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, North Carolina State University

2023

Zachary Easley
Thesis: Preserver, n-potent, and periodic operators on Banach spaces and function spaces
First position: [Not provided], Rhodes College

Sana Kazemi
Thesis: Isometries on special classes of sequence spaces
First position: Instructional Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

John McCurdy
Thesis: Safe-Net: Secure and fast encryption using network of pseudo-random number generators
First position: Assistant Professor, Mount St. Mary University

Sovanlal Mondal
Thesis: Behavior of ergodic averages along a subsequence and the grid method
First position: Ross Assistant Professor, Ohio State University

Yilun Sun
Thesis: A Bayesian approach for analyzing concurrent response rate data in clinical trials
First position: Research Scientist, St. Jude’s Hospital

2022

Rasika Mahawattege
Thesis: Fluid structure interactions with Kelvin-Voigt damping and quantized state integration methods
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

Monika Palthya
Thesis: Numerical index and quotient lifting property
First position: Lecturer, Stevens Institute of Technology

2021

Marcelo Bongarti
Thesis: On nonlinear acoustic waves of third order (in time) and applications
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Weierstrass Institute

Priyadarshi Dey
Thesis: Hermitian projections and geometric properties of Banach spaces
First position: Instructor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Stephen Guffey
Thesis: Local null-controllability of a chemotaxis model for a bacterial infection in a radially symmetric chronic wound
First position: High School Teacher, Collierville High School

John Kubi
Thesis: Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimation for correlated binary data based on the double binomial distribution
First position: Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University

Zhenghong Li
Thesis: Variable selection in big data with applications to develop a new epigenetic clock
First position: Principal Statistician, [Not provided]

Kenneth Bobvah Pasiah
Thesis: Efficient computer search for super-order multiple recursive generators
First position: Term Assistant Professor, George Mason University

Farnaz Solatikia
Thesis: Design a system of secure random number generators by random coupling with the future
First position: Biostatistician, Florida State University

Mariusz Zyluk
Thesis: On density of smooth functions in Musielak Orlicz Sobolev spaces and uniform convexity of those spaces
First position: Actuarial Consultant, Aon

2020

Diego Calle Cadavid
Thesis: Unique maximal ideal in the algebra L((Σ≬∐)) ⌋,) with 1 < q < ∞
First position: Instructor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Sirututh Charphoeon
Thesis: Vanishing relaxation time dynamics of the Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation arising in high frequency ultrasound
First position: Assistant Professor, DePauw University

Rebecca Herman
Thesis: Walks and games on graphs
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

David Lewis
Thesis: Extremal graph theory and dimension theory for partial orders
First position: Teacher, Russian School of Mathematics

Yunusa Olufadi
Thesis: Approaches for analyzing multivariate mixed endpoints with high-dimensional covariates
First position: Research Statistician, Washington State University

Lei Shi
Thesis: Truncated and aggregated P-value test
First position: Senior Lead Biostatistician, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Robert Vaughn
Thesis: Random effects volatility models for joint returns within a financial market
First position: [Not provided], U.S. Food and Drug Administration

2019

Latia Carraway
Thesis: Estimation with exchangeable binary data
First position: Assistant Professor, Arkansas State University

Buddhika Priyasad
Thesis: Uniform stabilization for Navier-Stokes equations in Lq based Sobolev and Besov spaces
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Graz

Holly Renaud
Thesis: Topological properties of the standard operations on spaces of continuous functions and integrable functions
First position: High School Teacher, Bolton High School

Steven Smith
Thesis: Problems in graph theory and partially ordered sets
First position: [Not provided], [Not provided]

2018

Peter Ngutu
Thesis: Regression models for analyzing clustered multinomial and continuous outcomes under the assumption of exchangeability
First position: Research Assistant, Baptist Memorial Health Care

Kamil Popielarz
Thesis: Problems in extremal graph theory
First position: Software Engineer, Google

Richard Snyder
Thesis: On the structure of dense graphs and other extremal problems
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

2017

Julian Sahasrabudhe
Thesis: Extremal and Ramsey problems on graphs and the integers
First position: Junior Researcher, Peterhouse College Cambridge

Amy Shaw
Thesis: Games on grids and graphs
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Manitoba

Hyung-Joon Tag
Thesis: Some geometrical properties in Orlicz-Lorentz spaces and their Koethe duals
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dong Gug University

2016

Nana Boateng
Thesis: On some exact nonparametric conditional tests for clustered binary data
First position: Data Scientist, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

Ali Dogan
Thesis: On saturated graphs and combinatorial games
First position: Assistant Professor, University of Houston-Victoria

Demba Fofana
Thesis: On some Bayesian and empirical Bayes procedures for analyzing gene expression data
First position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Merve Kester
Thesis: Approximations by generalized discrete singular operators
First position: Assistant Professor, Tusculum College

Akwasi Kusi-Appiah
Thesis: On the exchangeable negative multinomial distribution and applications to analysis of RNA-seq. data
First position: Research Statistician, International Paper

Yuri Sokolov
Thesis: Dynamics of discrete and continuous spatially distributed systems
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pittsburgh

Aaron Taylor
Thesis: Classes of operators on Bloch spaces
First position: Assistant Professor, College of Coastal Georgia

Jee Zhou
Thesis: D sets and IP rich sets in Z
First position: High School Teacher, Nazareth Academy

2015

Richard Johnson
Thesis: Searching and sorting algorithms
First position: Instructor, King’s College Cambridge

Tomas Juskevicius
Thesis: Probabilistic inequalities and bootstrap percolation
First position: Researcher, Czech Academy of Sciences

Teeradej Kittipassorn
Thesis: Problems in extremal and Ramsey graph theory
First position: Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University

Behrouz Madahian
Thesis: Statistical shrinkage methods for classification, prediction, and feature extraction using genomewide gene expression data and small sample sizes
First position: Principal Data Scientist, Quire

2014

Xueyuan Cao
Thesis: Set based association testing in high dimensional genomic studies
First position: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

Si Chen
Thesis: DNA sequence analysis for applications to phylogenetic tree construction and simulated metagenomic binning
First position: Scientist, Wuhan University

Raluca Pop Clendenen
Thesis: Wentzell boundary conditions with bad coefficients and parabolic asymptotics for dissipative hyperbolic problems
First position: Assistant Professor, Belmont University

Dominik Vu
Thesis: Separating families and combinatorial games
First position: [Not provided], European Central Bank

Bryan Winter
Thesis: Design, search, and implementation of improved large order multiple recursive generators and matrix congruential generators
First position: Biostatistician, Adventia Prevention

2013

Jared Collins
Thesis: Bad cycles, blowup points, and baby Mandelbrot sets
First position: Assistant Professor, Reed-Hardeman College

Wenrong Hu
Thesis: Sample size and power calculations for stratified case-cohort design and generalized case-cohort design
First position: [Not provided], CSL Behring

2012

Neal Bushaw
Thesis: Problems in extremal combinatorics
First position: Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Damian Kubiak
Thesis: Topics in Cesaro-Orlicz spaces
First position: Assistant Professor, Tennessee Technical University

Ago-Erik Riet
Thesis: On integer sequences, packings, and games on graphs
First position: Researcher, University of Tartu

Andrew Uzzell
Thesis: Turn-type problems and bootstrap percolation
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross

Yanan Wu
Thesis: Stochastic models of human kidney cancer
First position: Statistician/Consultant, Saber Analysis

2011

Fabricio Benevides
Thesis: On Ramsey theory and slow bootstrap percolation
First position: Adjunct Professor, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Shaun Ceci
Thesis: Navier-Stokes flow for a fluid jet with a free surface
First position: Assistant Professor, LeMoyne College

Malgorzata Czerwinska
Thesis: Some topics in noncommutative spaces of measurable operators
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi

Karen Gunderson
Thesis: Probabilistic problems in graph theory
First position: Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba

Raena King
Thesis: Hermitian operators and projections on Hardy spaces
First position: Assistant Professor, Christian Brothers University

Mehmet Kocak
Thesis: Bayesian and meta-analysis of cell-cycle gene expression data
First position: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

Xiaodong Zhou
Thesis: Weighted meta-analysis procedures for pooling high-throughput biological data
First position: Cybersecurity Principal, FedEx

2010

Kyeongmi Cheon
Thesis: On some procedures for analyzing clustered exchangeable data
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Child, Health and Human Development

Maciej Ciesielski
Thesis: Geometric properties of Lorentz spaces and applications to approximation theory
First position: Assistant Professor, Poznań University of Technology

Annita Davis
Thesis: Stability behavior of models for unsupervised learning
First position: Coordinator/Instructor, University of Memphis

Dias Kurmashev
Thesis: The local solvability of the initial-boundary value problem of fiber spinning of the upper convected Maxwell fluid
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Lijing Xu
Thesis: Literature based Bayesian analysis of gene expression data
First position: Principal Biostatistician, Immune Tolerance Network