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

2024

Fayaz MD Ahamed
Thesis: Uniform Stability of Von Karman Plate with Rotational Inertia and Wellposedness
First position: Consultant at Meta - Social Metaverse Company, CA (former Facebook)

Sharmin Attique
Thesis: Attractors for Von Karman Evolutions with Nonlinear Frictional Damping Supported in a Boundary Layer Only
First position: [Not provided]

Madhumita Roy
Thesis: Longtime Behavior of Wave and Plate Equations
First position: 3-year-long Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Mathematics Department, University of North Carolina, UNC, Raleigh

2023

Zachary Easley
Thesis: Preserver, n-potent, and Periodic Operators on Banach Spaces and Function Spaces
First position: Rhodes College

Sana Kazemi
Thesis: Isometries on Special Classes of Sequence Spaces
First position: Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University

John McCurdy
Thesis: Safe-Net: Secure and Fast Encryption Using Network of Pseudo-Random Number Generators
First position: Assistant Professor at Mount St. Mary University

Sovanlal Mondal
Thesis: Behavior of Ergodic Averages Along a Subsequence and the Grid Method
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, 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 Mahawattage
Thesis: Fluid Structure Interactions with Kelvin Voight Damping and Quantized State Integration Methods
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Monika Palthya
Thesis: Numerical Index and Quotient Lifting Property
First position: Lecturer at the Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ

2021

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

Priyadarshi Dey
Thesis: Hermitian projections and geometric properties of Banach spaces
First position: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA

Stephen Guffey
Thesis: Local null-controllability of a chemotaxis model for a bacterial infection in a radially symmetric chronic wound
First position: University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

John Kubi
Thesis: Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Correlated Binary Data based on the double Binomial Distribution
First position: Grand Valley State University (GVSU), Allendale, MI

Zhenghong Li
Thesis: Variable selection in big data with applications to develop a new epigenetic clock
First position: Principal Statistician

Kenneth Passiah
Thesis: Efficient Computer Search for Super-order Multiple Recursive Generators
First position: Term Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at George Mason University

Farnaz Solatika
Thesis: Design A System Of Secure Random Number Generators By Random Coupling With The Future
First position: Biostatistician, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Mariusz Zyluk
Thesis: On density of smooth functions in Musielak Orlicz Sobolev spaces, and uniform convexity of those spaces
First position: [Not provided]

2020

Diego Calle Cadavid
Thesis: Unique Maximal Ideal in the Algebra L((Σ≬∐)) ⌋,) with 1 < q < ∞
First position: Instructor, Virginia Tech

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

Rebecca Herman
Thesis: Walks and Games on Graphs
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Univ. Tennessee - Knoxville

David Lewis
Thesis: Extremal Graph Theory, and Dimension Theory for Partial Orders
First position: [Not provided]

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, Memphis, TN

Robert Vaughn
Thesis: Random Effects Volatility Models for Joint Returns within a Financial Market
First position: FDA, Maryland

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 Fellow in Karl Franzens Institute, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Holly Renaud
Thesis: Topological Properties of the Standard Operations on Spaces of Continuous Functions, and Integrable Functions
First position: Bolton High School, Memphis, TN

Steven Smith
Thesis: Problems in Graph Theory, and Partially Ordered Sets
First position: [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: Scientist, Google, Zurich, Switzerland

Richard Snyder
Thesis: On the Structure of Dense Graphs, and other Extremal Problems
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Karlsruhe Institute of Tech, Karlsruhe, Germany

2017

Julian Sahasrabudhe
Thesis: Extremal and Ramsey Problems on Graphs, and the Integers
First position: Junior Researcher, Peterhouse College, UK

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: Military service in South Korea followed by post-doctoral position at Dong Gug University in Seoul, South Korea

2016

Nana Boateng
Thesis: On Some Exact Nonparametric Conditional Tests for Clustered Binary Data
First position: Data Scientist, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, MI

Ali Dogan
Thesis: On Saturated Graphs and Combinatorial Games
First position: Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston Victoria, Victoria, TX 77901 USA

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 at Tusculum College, TN

Akwasi Kusi-Appiah
Thesis: On the Exchangeable Negative Multinomial Distribution and Applications to Analysis of RNA-Seq Data
First position: Research Statistician, International Papers, Memphis, TN

Yuri Sokolov
Thesis: Dynamics of Discrete and Continuous Spatially Distributed Systems
First position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh

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

Jee Zhou
Thesis: "D sets and IP rich sets in Z"
First position: Nazareth Academy (Prep School in Chicago)

2015

Richard Johnson
Thesis: Searching and Sorting Algorithms
First position: Instructor, The Kings College, Canterbury, UK

Tomas Juskevicius
Thesis: Probabilistic Inequalities and Bootstrap Percolation
First position: Researcher, Institute of Mathematics, 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, Inc.

2014

Xueyuan Cao
Thesis: Set Based Association Testing in High Dimensional Genomic Studies
First position: Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

Si Chen
Thesis: DNA Sequence Analysis for Applications to Phylogenetic Tree Construction and Simulated Metagenomic Binning
First position: Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Raluca Pop Clendenen
Thesis: Wentzell Boundary Conditions with Bad Coefficients and Parabolic Asymptotics for Dissipative Hyperbolic Problems
First position: Assistant Professor, Belmont University, TN

Dominik Vu
Thesis: Separating Families and Combinatorial Games
First position: European Central Bank

Bryan Winter
Thesis: Design, Search, and Implementation of Improved Large Order Multiple Recursive Generators and Matrix Congruential Generators
First position: Difference Maker, Biostatistician, & Data Analyst, Adventia Wellness

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: CSL Behring, King of Prussia, PA

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, Estonia

Andrew Uzzell
Thesis: Turn-type Problems and Bootstrap Percolation
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Holy Cross

O. Y. Wu
Thesis: Stochastic Models of Human Kidney Cancer
First position: Statistician/Consultant, Saber Analysis

2011

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

Fabricio Benevides
Thesis: On Ramsey Theory and Slow Bootstrap Percolation
First position: Adjunct Professor, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil

Malgorzata Czerwinska
Thesis: Some topics in noncommutative spaces of measurable operators
First position: University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS

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, Memphis

Mehmet Kocak
Thesis: Bayesian and Meta-Analysis of Cell-Cycle Gene Expression Data
First position: Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Xiaodong Zhou
Thesis: Topic 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: Senior Scientist, Biostatistics, Biometrics Research, EDS, Merck

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

Annita Davis
Thesis: Stability Behavior of Models for Unsupervised Learning
First position: Coordinator Instructor, DMS, 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: Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Lijing Xu
Thesis: Topic-Literature Based Bayesian Analysis of Gene Expression Data
First position: Manager, Cybersecurity Intelligence and Analytics, FedEx, Memphis