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Your Success Story Is Waiting\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Ph.D. students gain invaluable, hands-on experience in research and teaching, in close partnership with our world-class faculty. They reach great heights in academia and succeed in a wide variety of other careers as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

2026<\/h3>\n

Le Gong<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Dynamical Sampling for Source Recovery<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Akram Aldroubi
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: Tenure track Faculty at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications<\/p>\n

Yixuan Huang<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Hamilton Cycles and\u00a0Cycles Through Specified Vertices in\u00a0Graphs<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Mark Ellingham
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: tba<\/p>\n

Junhui Lim<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Planar Algebras Associated to Cocommuting Squares<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Dietmar Bisch
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: Australian National University (MSI Fellow)<\/p>\n

2025<\/h3>\n

Katherine Williams Booth (visiting student)<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Automorphisms of the Smooth Fine Curve Graph<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Dan Margalit
\nFirst Post-Graduate Positions: Vanderbilt, SLMath, University of Chicago (NSF postdoc)<\/p>\n

Koichi Oyakawa<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Bi-exactness of negatively curved groups<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Denis Osin
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: McGill University (Postdoctoral position)<\/p>\n

Kai Toyosawa<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Weak exactness and amalgamated free product of von Neumann algebras<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Jesse Peterson
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: Universitaet Muenster (Postdoctoral position)<\/p>\n

Runzhang Zhong<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: The linearized Israel-Stewart Equations with a physical vacuum boundary<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Marcelo Disconzi
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: University of Missouri (Postdoctoral position)<\/p>\n

2024<\/h3>\n

Julio Caceres<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Graph Planar Algebra Embeddings and New A_infinity Subfactors
\nFaculty Advisor: Dietmar Bisch
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: Vanderbilt University (Postdoctoral position)<\/p>\n

Aidan Lorenz<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Small Dilatation Pseudo-Anosovs Coming from Dehn Fillings of Hyperbolic Fibered 3-Manifolds<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Spencer Dowdall
\nFirst Post-Graduate Positions: Arka, Susquehanna (AI Software Developer)<\/p>\n

Brian Luczak<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: A Priori Estimates for the Linearized Relativistic Euler Equations with a Physical Vacuum Boundary and an Ideal Gas Equation of State<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Marcelo Disconzi
\nFirst Post-Graduate Positions: University of Chicago Laboratory School, DePaul University (Teaching Assistant Professor)<\/p>\n

Nate Tenpas<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Linear Programming Bounds for Periodic Energy Problems<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Doug Hardin
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: Industry Position<\/p>\n

Min Quan Hoang Vu<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: On Some Basic Problems of Riesz Kernels in Potential Theory
\nFaculty Advisor: Ed Saff
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position:<\/p>\n

2023<\/h3>\n

Colin Bloomfield<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Fibered Universal Algebra for First-order Logics<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Constantine Tsinakis
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: Leidos (Researcher in formal methods)<\/p>\n

David Chan<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Monoidal Structures in Equivariant Algebra<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Anna Marie Bohmann
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: Michigan State University (Postdoctoral position)
\nPersonal Website<\/a><\/p>\n

Dumindu DeSilva<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Von Neumann Equivalence in Deformation Rigidity Theory<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Jesse Peterson
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: Annalect (Data scientist)<\/p>\n

Changying Ding<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Properly proximal groups and von Neumann algebras<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Jesse Peterson
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: UCLA (Hedrick Assistant Professor)
\nPersonal Website<\/a><\/p>\n

Andy Jarnevic<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: A generalization of the distortion function and the asymptotic geometry of subgroups <\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Denis Osin
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: Velocity Risk Underwriters (Business Intelligence Analyst)<\/p>\n

Sam Rizzo<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: On the moduli space of constant scalar curvature K\u00e4hler metrics on complex surfaces <\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Ioana Suvaina
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: Willowview Consulting (Data Scientist)<\/p>\n

Sifan Yu<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Rough solutions of the relativistic Euler equations<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Jared Speck
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: National University of Singapore (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
\nPersonal Website<\/a><\/p>\n

Sumati Thareja<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Thesis: Transport Transforms and their applications in Machine Learning and Data Science<\/em>
\nFaculty Advisor: Akram Aldroubi
\nFirst Post-Graduate Position: University of Bangalore (Assistant Professor of Mathematics)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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