Students & mentoring

Research through collaboration.

Doctoral and master’s advising in computational mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification.

Advising and committee records · October 2026. Expected graduation dates are indicated explicitly.

Current doctoral advisees

Since Fall 2023

Andrew Kitterman

Expected graduation · Spring 2027

Machine learning, surrogate modeling, and uncertainty quantification.

Since Spring 2026

Hanbyul Lee

Expected graduation · Spring 2029

Previous doctoral advising

Graduated Spring 2026

Michael Schmidt

Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and global sensitivity analysis.

Graduated Fall 2025

Isabel Corona Guevara

Sparse Bayesian learning and uncertainty quantification.

Advised Summer 2021–Fall 2024

Evan Shapiro

Co-advised with Erin Austin. COPD project and surrogate modeling.

Graduated Fall 2022

Neissrien Alhubieshi

Thesis: Global Sensitivity Analysis with Surrogate Modeling.

Master’s advisees

Graduated Spring 2026

Weston White

Graduated Spring 2025

Johannes Strauss

Graduated Summer 2024

Anne Gumina

Importance sampling, surrogate modeling, and reliability engineering.

Graduated Spring 2024

Hanbyul Lee

Machine learning interpretability.

Graduated Summer 2023

Nhat Pham

Reinforcement learning, Q-learning, and Dyna.

Graduated Spring 2022

Siu Yin Lee

Outstanding Master’s Student

Burned area mapping in Alaska using improvements to a USGS machine learning algorithm.

Graduated Spring 2021

Nick Koprowicz

CLAS Outstanding MS Graduate

Co-advised with Erin Austin. Building computer vision models efficiently through transfer learning with ImageNet pretrained models.

Graduated Summer 2020

Siyuan Lin

Application of machine learning models to microeconomic analysis.

Graduated Spring 2020

Lu Vy

Summa Cum Laude

Variance reduction methods based on multilevel Monte Carlo for option pricing.

Graduated Spring 2020

Dingxuan Zhang

Variance reduction methods based on multilevel Monte Carlo for option pricing.

Graduated Spring 2020

Malik Odeh

Neuronal bursting in slow-fast systems.

Committee service

Ph.D. committees
  • Lillian MakhoulSince Spring 2026
  • Joao SilvaSince Fall 2025
  • Courtney FranzenSince Summer 2025
  • Colin FureySpring 2024–Summer 2026
  • Rachel DrummondSince Fall 2023
  • Travis SmileySince Summer 2023
  • Taylor RoperFall 2021–Summer 2024
  • Negar JananiFall 2021–Spring 2023
  • Sorenson ZacharyFall 2021–Spring 2025
  • Weston GreweDecember 2021–Spring 2024
  • Basma TumiSpring 2020–Fall 2023
  • Vincent HerrSpring 2020–Spring 2025
  • Wenjuan ZhangFall 2019–Summer 2021
  • Tian Yu YenSummer 2018–Summer 2021
  • Megan SorensonSpring 2018–Fall 2019
  • Stephan PattersonSpring 2018–Spring 2020
Master’s project committees
  • Brady LamsonFall 2026
  • Williams PhoenixSpring 2026
  • Lillian MakhoulFall 2025
  • Laura SetzerSummer 2025
  • Alana SaragosaSpring 2025
  • Kevin RobbySummer 2024
  • Michael LynnSpring 2024
  • Johnathan RhyneSpring 2024
  • Hope ElizabethFall 2022
  • Jordan CostaSpring 2022
  • Christopher ClarkSpring 2022
  • Alexander HeggSpring 2022
  • Dongdong LuSpring 2022
  • Kailun LinSpring 2022
  • Rotonda AlexandraSpring 2021
  • Yuanlong WangSummer 2018
  • Eric HuSpring 2018
  • Maryam KhazaeiSpring 2018
  • Tian Yu YenSpring 2018
  • Xingmeng ZhaoFall 2017
  • Cailin MccloskeyFall 2017