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