Students and Postdoctoral Associates
Postdoctoral associates
Silke Glas
Ph.D., Ulm University, 2018 |
Optimization of stellarators |
PhD students
Caira Anderson
Applied Math |
MHD stability in stellarators |
Michael Czekanski
Statistics |
Monte Carlo transport calculations for stellarators |
Ariel Kellison
Computer Science |
Formal verification of numerical methods |
Darian Nwankwo
Computer Science |
Transformed kernel methods for prediction and optimization |
Max Ruth
Applied Math |
Nonlinear dynamics and stellarators |
Xinran Zhu
Applied Math |
Numerical analysis of kernel methods |
Misha Padidar
Applied Math Ph.D., 2023 |
Challenges in the optimization-aided design of magnetic confinement systems |
Eric Lee
Computer Science Ph.D., 2020 |
Budget-Constrained Bayesian Optimization |
Kun Dong
Applied Math Ph.D., 2019 |
Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra for Large-Scale Matrix Data |
David Eriksson
Applied Math Ph.D., 2018 |
Scalable kernel methods and their use in black-box optimization
Co-advised (secondary advisor: Christine Shoemaker) |
Moontae Lee
Computer Science Ph.D., 2018 |
Joint-stochastic spectral inference for robust co-occurrence modeling and latent topic analysis
Co-advised (primary advisor: David Mimno) |
Amanda Hood
Applied Math Ph.D., 2017 |
Localizing the eigenvalues of matrix-valued functions: analysis and applications |
Colin Ponce
Computer Science Ph.D., 2016 |
Network-Structured Error Flattening for Power Grids and Other Real-World Networks |
Erdal Yilmaz
Applied Physics Ph.D., 2016 |
Design, Analysis and Simulation of Microscale Solid-Wave Gyroscopes
Research advisor (formally advised by Richard Lovelace) |
Masters students
Felix Hohne Computer Science M.Eng., 2023 |
Interfacing DESC with Julia |
Sahil Dev Computer Science M.Eng., 2022 |
Streamlining Spark Cluster Setup with Flintrock |
Junyoung Lim Computer Science M.Eng., 2021 |
Learning to Cluster |
Erik Louie Computer Science M.Eng., 2021 |
Learning to Cluster |
Kevin Chaudhuri Computer Science M.Eng., 2020 |
Matrix exponentials in modeling electron spin resonance spectra |
Yuanxi Shen Computer Science M.Eng., 2020 |
Fast Bayesian Transformed Gaussian Prediction |
Sungjun Cho Computer Science M.S., 2020 |
Robust and Scalable Spectral Topic Modeling for Large Vocabularies |
Bingqing Ma Computer Science M.Eng., 2018 |
Web Interface to a Finite Element Analysis Program |
Alvin Zhu Computer Science M.Eng., 2018 |
Fast non-negative projection of low rank matrices |
Tommy Shum Computer Science M.Eng., 2018 |
PySOT in the Cloud |
Peiyu Shi Computer Science M.Eng., 2018 |
A web dashboard for PySOT |
Israr Mahmood Computer Science M.Eng., 2018 |
A web dashboard for PySOT |
Daniel Liu Computer Science M.Eng., 2017 |
Bayesian optimization in PySOT |
Han Wen Chen Computer Science M.Eng., 2017 |
Jupyter Notebooks for Finite Element Analysis |
Michael Ficenic Computer Science M.Eng., 2017 |
Network Classification via Spectral Features |
Paul West Computer Science M.Eng., 2017 |
Optimization with Pre-Emptible VMs |
Joel Lubitinsky Computer Science M.Eng., 2017 |
Resource-Coupled Evolutionary Games |
Ioana-Maria Tamas Computer Science M.Eng., 2017 |
Resource-Coupled Evolutionary Games |
Batu Inal Computer Science M.Eng., 2016 |
Super Seminar Scraper |
Sania Nagpal Computer Science M.Eng., 2016 |
Fast Trial Spaces for Parameterized PageRank Problems |
Suarabh Netravalkar Computer Science M.Eng., 2016 |
Fast Trial Spaces for Parameterize PageRank Problems |
Shitong Jia Computer Science M.Eng., 2016 |
Etch-a-Sketch 3D |
Jing Jing Computer Science M.Eng., 2016 |
Super Seminar Scraper |
Jiankun Lu Computer Science M.Eng., 2016 |
Super Seminar Scraper |
Xiangyu Zhang Computer Science M.Eng., 2016 |
Edge-Weighted Parameterized PageRank: A Demo |
Markus Salasoo Computer Science M.Eng., 2016 |
Edge-Weighted Parameterized PageRank: A Demo |
Ziyang Tang Computer Science M.Eng., 2016 |
Optimizing Price of Anarchy in a Model of Opinion Formation |
Jia Zhang Computer Science M.Eng., 2016 |
Spectral Histograms on Networks |
Xiaoan Yan Computer Science M.Eng., 2015 |
Edge-Weighted Parameterized PageRank: A Demo |
Chen Ting-Hao Electrical Engineering M.Eng., 2013 |
MEMS Simulation as a Service |
Syed Hassan Computer Science M.Eng., 2013 |
MEMS Simulation as a Service |
Kim Young Jae Computer Science M.Eng., 2013 |
Teaching Support Vector Machines to Predict Profitable Stock Offers |
Jungmin Yun Computer Science M.Eng., 2012 |
Python Implementation of a Stochastic RBF Optimization Method |
Jesseon Chang Computer Science M.Eng., 2012 |
Python Implementation of a Stochastic RBF Optimization Method |
Chen-Yi Chen Computer Science M.Eng., 2012 |
A Flexible Interface to FEAP |
Scott Purdy Computer Science M.Eng., 2010 |
Process Replication for HPC Applications |
Peter Hunt Computer Science M.Eng., 2010 |
Process Replication for HPC Applications |
Silvio Tarca Scientific Computing (NYU) M.S., 2010 |
Performance Optimization of Symmetric Factorization Algorithms |
Undergraduate students
Tejal Nair | Variational Gaussian Processes (2023) |
Tony Xu | Stability-Constrained Optimization for Stellarators (2023) |
Sean Yang | Near-Axis Expansion of Stellarators in Julia (2023) |
Stella Dang | Soliton Stability (2022) |
Paco Rilloraza | Stellarator Optimization (2020) |
Catherine Horng | Learning to Cluster (2020) |
Shengye Zang | Learning to Cluster (2020) |
Andrew Yates | Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems and Traveling Wave Stability (2020) |
Ziwei Gu | Learning to Cluster (2020) |
Leo Huang | Fast Bayesian Transformed Gaussian Prediction (2019) |
Cameron Ibrahim | Fast Bayesian Transformed Gaussian Prediction (2019) |
Sungjun Cho | Spectral Topic Modeling (2017) |
Nathaniel Rogalskyj | Identifying Network Changes from Ringdown Analysis (2016) |
Anna Yesypenko | Graph Analysis via Density of States (2016) |
Moteleolu Onabajo | Graph Analysis via Density of States (2016) |
Jianqiu Wang | Graph Analysis via Density of States (2016) |
Humam Alwassel | Automated Floating Point Error Analysis (2015) |
Patrick Chen | Super Seminar Scraper (2015-16) |
Jooyoung Park | Maximum Entropy Method Implementation in MATLAB (2015) |
Sheroze Sherifdeen | MatScat for Python (2015-16) |
Nimit Sohoni | Review of the FEAST Eigensolver (2015) |
Leon Davis | Diagonal Completion for Low-Rank Matrices (2015) |
Greg Rosenthal | PageRank with Random Edge Weights (2015) |
Eric Ma | Graph Analysis via Spectral Histograms (2015) |
Brandon Hartz | Fast PageRank on Parameter-Dependent Graphs (2014) |
Marshall Jiang | Randomly Projected GMRES (2014-15) |
Kyu-Young Kim | Evaluating Overlapping Community Detection via Matrix Factorizations (2011-12) |
Jiexun Xu | Fast Factorizations for Network Tomography (2008) |
Iva Vukicevic | Error Bounds and Estimates for a Discrete Sine-Gordon Equation (2008) |
Daniel Parry | Bounds on Biased and Unbiased Random Walks (2008) |
Anwis Davis | MEMS Web Service (2002) |
Ernest Zhu | MEMS Web Service (2001) |
Wayne Kao | MEMS Web Service (2001) |
Thesis committees
Current
- Griffin Berlstein (Computer Science)
- Jonah Botvinivk-Greenhouse (Applied Math)
- Jacob Brown (Applied Math)
- Poompol Buathong (Applied Math)
- Chiatai Chen (Applied Physics)
- Aditya Chetan (Computer Science)
- Michael Czeskanski (Statistics)
- Youssef Fahmy (Statistics)
- Tayler Fernandes Nuñez (Applied Math)
- Mallory Gaspard (Applied Math)
- Arnav Gupta (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
- Ariel Kellison (Computer Science)
- Kapil Khanal (Systems Engineering)
- David Lee (Computer Science)
- Yandong Li (Computer Science)
- Si Yi Meng (Computer Science)
- Shriya Nagpal (Applied Math)
- Darian Nwankwo (Computer Science)
- Shawn Ong (Applied Math)
- Max Ruth (Applied Math)
- Cade Sbrocco (Physics)
- Jiatian Sun (Computer Science)
- Katerina Tang (Applied Math)
- Jiayue Wan (Operations Research)
- Junxiong Wang (Computer Science)
- Aaron Wheeler (Chemical Engineering)
- Xinchen Xu (Applied Math)
- Yujia Zhang (Applied Math)
- Yunxiang Zhang (Operations Research)
- Xinran Zhu (Applied Math)
- Jennifer Zvonek (Applied Math)