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Mathematics and Statistics student alumni

Where Our Graduates Go

Our PhD graduates teach and do research around the world. Since 2006 they have joined the faculty at Swarthmore College, West Virginia University, Brigham Young University, San Diego State University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Vermont, the University at Buffalo, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the University of Toronto Mississauga, and at universities in Brazil, Honduras, India, Japan, Peru, and South Korea. Postdoctoral positions have taken them to the Courant Institute at NYU, Johns Hopkins, Duke, ICERM at Brown University, ETH Zurich, and the Australian National University.

Our PhD graduates also work in national laboratories, government, and industry. They have worked at Sandia, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the US Geological Survey, and as statisticians and scientists at Eli Lilly, Amgen, AbbVie, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, and Boeing. A 2024 PhD graduate won Sandia's von Neumann Postdoctoral Fellowship. A department survey of our 66 PhD graduates from 2006 to 2016 located 64 of them, and 63 of those worked in mathematics or statistics.

Many of our master's graduates go straight to work. They have worked at Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the National Security Agency, and the US Census Bureau; as data scientists and software engineers at Google, Apple, and Visa; in finance at Freddie Mac, Fidelity Investments, and Lloyds Banking Group; and in health research at the UNM Health Sciences Center. Others teach at Central New Mexico Community College, UNM Valencia, and Albuquerque high schools. Still others go on to PhD programs at UNM, Yale, Cornell, Rice, UT Austin, and ETH Zurich, and one became a Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

Graduates by Year

The list below covers graduate alumni of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Each entry gives the graduate's name, degree, advisor, and thesis or dissertation title when we have it. Titles link to the full text when the UNM Digital Repository holds a copy.

This list is a work in progress. It lists 654 graduate degrees earned from 1936 to 2026, grouped by year. It draws on the theses and dissertations in the repository and on the department's records of its PhD alumni and of its master's graduates since fall 2006. The repository holds no theses from 1980 to 2006, so most master's graduates from 1980 to 2005 are missing, and none of these sources is complete. Are you one of our alumni? Please send corrections, a missing thesis, or news of your career to the Department Advisor.

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2026

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

MS

Statistics

PhD

MS

2025

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

Statistics

MS

2024

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

Statistics

PhD

MS

2023

Applied Mathematics

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

  • Austin M. Bell, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • Michael O'Cobhthaigh, MS, Pure Mathematics.

Statistics

PhD

MS

  • Mohammad Ahmadi, MS, Statistics.
  • Dhuka Alkhalissi, MS, Statistics.
  • Mason A. Bray, MS, Statistics.
  • Samuel Ewusi Dadzie, MS, Statistics.
  • Devin M. DeLeon-Dowd, MS, Statistics.
  • Davis J. Dodson, MS, Statistics.
  • Azadeh Golduzian, MS, Statistics. Advisor: James Degnan. Thesis: Bitcoin Price Modeling Using Machine Learning Algorithms.
  • Fred R. Kaul, MS, Statistics.

2022

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

Statistics

PhD

MS

2021

Applied Mathematics

MS

Pure Mathematics

MS

Statistics

PhD

MS

2020

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

MS

Statistics

PhD

MS

2019

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

MS

  • Garrett Shields, MS, Pure Mathematics.

Statistics

MS

2018

Applied Mathematics

MS

Pure Mathematics

MS

  • Sulgi Bak, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • Michael Brown, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • Samantha Harding, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • Abdul Raheem, MS, Pure Mathematics.

Statistics

MS

  • Jared DiDomenico, MS, Statistics.
  • Patrick Doherty, MS, Statistics. Advisor: Yan Lu.
  • Lindsey Pittington, MS, Statistics.
  • Geoffrey Schultz, MS, Statistics.
  • Goushun Yang, MS, Statistics.
  • Yiming Yang, MS, Statistics.

2017

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

Statistics

PhD

MS

Mathematics Education

MS

2016

Applied Mathematics

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

Statistics

PhD

MS

2015

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

  • Craig Hatch, MS, Applied Mathematics.
  • Anthony Ortiz, MS, Applied Mathematics.
  • Angel Poling, MS, Applied Mathematics.
  • Karen Sorensen-Unru, MS, Applied Mathematics.
  • John Tennison, MS, Applied Mathematics.

Pure Mathematics

MS

Statistics

PhD

MS

2014

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

  • Timothy Greenman, MS, Pure Mathematics.

Statistics

PhD

MS

Mathematics Education

PhD

2013

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

  • Matthew Arnold, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • Dusty Brooks, MS, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Matthew Blair. Thesis: Lattice points in disks and strongly convex domains.
  • Gregory Morre, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • Fredy Antonio Vides Romero, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • Jonathan Schauble, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • Benjamin Works, MS, Pure Mathematics.

Statistics

PhD

MS

2012

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

  • Matthew Dahlgren, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • Jaroslaw Kania, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • David Edward Weirich, MS, Pure Mathematics.

Statistics

PhD

MS

2011

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

Statistics

PhD

MS

  • Fletcher Christensen, MS, Statistics.
  • Brandy DiMaggio, MS, Statistics.
  • Yan Dong, MS, Statistics.
  • Peter Lee, MS, Statistics.
  • William Wadsworth, MS, Statistics.
  • Shen-Yang Wang, MS, Statistics.

2010

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

MS

  • Martha Byrne, MS, Pure Mathematics.

Statistics

PhD

MS

2009

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Adam Ringler, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Michael Nakamaye. Dissertation: Positivity Problems in Higher Dimensional Geometry.

MS

Statistics

PhD

MS

2008

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MS

  • Jaime Hernandez, MS, Applied Mathematics.
  • Ian Sorensen, MS, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Monika Nitsche.
  • Ling Xu, MS, Applied Mathematics.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Oleksandra Beznosova, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Maria Cristina Pereyra. Dissertation: Bellman Functions, Paraproducts, Haar Multipliers and Weighted Inequalities.
  • Jaime Cuadros, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Charles Boyer. Dissertation: On Null Sasakian Structures.
  • Ralph Gomez, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Charles Boyer. Dissertation: On Lorentzian Sasaki-Einstein Geometry.
  • Daniele Grandini, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Krzysztof Galicki. Dissertation: Quaternionic Kähler reductions of Wolf spaces.
  • Dariusz Panek, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Maria Cristina Pereyra. Dissertation: On Sharp Extrapolation Theorems.

MS

  • Hector Chang, MS, Pure Mathematics.
  • Jessica Phillips, MS, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Kristin Umland.
  • Kourosh Raeen, MS, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Maria Cristina Pereyra.

Statistics

PhD

  • Chen Meng, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Laura Kubatko. Dissertation: Phylogenetic Models for Hybridization in a Coalescent Framework.
  • Wenxia Ying, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Gabriel Huerta. Dissertation: Bayesian modeling of non-stationary extremal events.

MS

  • Shaohua Feng, MS, Statistics.
  • Qiang Fu, MS, Statistics.

Mathematics Education

PhD

  • Jessica Deshler, PhD, Mathematics Education. Advisor: Kristin Umland. Dissertation: Predicting Student Performance in Core Math Classes.

2007

Applied Mathematics

MS

  • Alejandro Acuña, MS, Applied Mathematics.
  • Huynh Dinh, MS, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Alexander Stone.
  • Christopher Donahue, MS, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: Alejandro Aceves and James Hyman.
  • Ivana Gorgievska, MS, Applied Mathematics.
  • Christin Gunning, MS, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Pedro Embid.
  • Hyeonju Kim, MS, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Stanly Steinberg.
  • Daishu Komagata, MS, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Pedro Embid.
  • Qiao Liang, MS, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Deborah Sulsky. Thesis: Transmission Dynamics of Avian Influenza Among Poultry with and Without Vaccination (PDF, 36 MB).
  • Shadi Askarian Naderi, MS, Applied Mathematics.
  • Yan Qiu, MS, Applied Mathematics.
  • Carsten Steinebach, MS, Applied Mathematics.

Pure Mathematics

MS

  • Paul Delgado, MS, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Kristin Umland.
  • Adam Ringler, MS, Pure Mathematics.

Statistics

PhD

  • Daniel Briand, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Aparna Huzurbazar. Dissertation: Bayesian Analysis of a Combined Lifecycle Failure Distribution.

MS

  • Eric Baldwin, MS, Statistics.
  • Jonathan Berman, MS, Statistics.
  • Zazil Colin, MS, Statistics.
  • Dong Li, MS, Statistics.
  • Rong Li, MS, Statistics.
  • Jason Lucero, MS, Statistics.
  • Xiangjin Shen, MS, Statistics.
  • Lucinda Sidow, MS, Statistics. Advisor: Aparna Huzurbazar.
  • Ning Tang, MS, Statistics.
  • Phuong Vo, MS, Statistics.
  • Ren Yuang, MS, Statistics.

2006

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Tatiana Marquez-Lago, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Stanly Steinberg. Dissertation: Numerical Estimation of Progesterone Transcription in the EGFR Pathway.
  • Andrey Sobol, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: James Ellison. Dissertation: A Vlasov treatment of the 2DF collective beam-beam interaction: Analytical and numerical results.

MS

  • Ignacio Rozada, MS, Applied Mathematics.
  • Hugh Smith, MS, Applied Mathematics.

Pure Mathematics

MS

  • David Worth, MS, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Terry Loring.

Statistics

PhD

  • Huining Kang, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Semiparametric estimation of the odds ratio and ROC curve of a generalized odds-rate model.
  • Mingan Yang, PhD, Statistics. Advisors: Ronald Christensen and Timothy Hanson. Dissertation: Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of bivariate density with interval censored data.

MS

  • Xichun (Tracy) Cui, MS, Statistics.
  • Nina Greenberg, MS, Statistics.
  • Alvaro Nosedal-Sanchez, MS, Statistics.
  • Valerie Peters (Hines), MS, Statistics.
  • William Vasquez, MS, Statistics.
  • Alejandro Villagran-Hernandez, MS, Statistics.

2005

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Erik Andries, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Thomas Hagstrom. Dissertation: Regularized Least Square Classifiers: Application to Leukemia Disease Classification.
  • Manuela de Castro, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: Jens Lorenz and Thomas Hagstrom. Dissertation: Stability of Parabolic Systems on a Half-Space and Theoretical Aspects of Absorbing Boundary Conditions.
  • Tomáš Dohnal, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Alejandro Aceves. Dissertation: Optical bullets in (2+1)D photonic structures and their interaction with localized defects.
  • Karl H. Frinkle, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Todd Kapitula. Dissertation: Bose-Einstein Condensates in the Presence of an Optical Lattice and Magnetic Trap: A Galerkin Projection Approach.
  • Dagoberto Adriano Rizzotto Justo, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: Stanly Steinberg and Thomas Hagstrom. Dissertation: High Order Mimetic Methods and Absorbing Boundary Conditions.
  • Irina Vlaicu, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: James Ellison. Dissertation: Weak Turbulence Theory for Coasting Beams with Schottky Noise.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Stanisław Dołęga, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Wojciech Kucharz. Dissertation: Real Algebraic Geometry.
  • Andrey Glubokov, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Alexandru Buium. Dissertation: Jet Spaces of the Quantum Plane.

Statistics

PhD

  • James Aden, PhD, Statistics. Advisors: Vladimir Koltchinskii and Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Model Selection in Kernel Machine Classification with Application in Bioinformatics.
  • James Degnan, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Laura Kubatko. Dissertation: Gene Tree Distributions Under the Coalescent Process.
  • Ling Xu, PhD, Statistics. Advisors: Timothy Hanson and Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Bayesian Methods for Computing Populations with Multimodal Distributions.

2004

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Igor Nazarov, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: Alejandro Aceves and Thomas Hagstrom. Dissertation: A Mathematical Analysis for Sustainable Management of Ecosystems; II. Perfectly Matched Layers for Euler's Linearized Equation.

MS

  • Karin Leiderman, MS, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Stanly Steinberg.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Walter Allan Kehowski, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisors: Charles Boyer and Krzysztof Galicki. Dissertation: Hypernormal Manifolds.
  • Derek Martinez, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Alexandru Buium. Dissertation: Greenberg Transforms of Singular Varieties and Maps.

Statistics

PhD

  • Elizabeth Jane Malloy, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Diagnostics for the Scale of Functional Predictors.

2003

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Pablo G. A. Braz e Silva, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Jens Lorenz. Dissertation: Stability of Plane Couette Flow: The Resolvent Method.
  • Elizabeth Ann Scott Burroughs, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Evangelos Coutsias. Dissertation: Convection in a Thermosyphon: Bifurcation and Stability.
  • Janaina Pires Zingano, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Stanly Steinberg. Dissertation: Convergence of Mimetic Methods for Sturm-Liouville Problems on General Grids.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Kenneth Zimmerman, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Alexandru Buium. Dissertation: Elliptical Dynamical Systems and δ-Geometry.

Statistics

PhD

  • Guy N. Brock, PhD, Statistics. Advisors: Laura Kubatko and William Beavis. Dissertation: Models for Detecting Gene Regulatory Networks from Microarray Data.
  • Winston Kermit Crandall, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Selection Criteria for Log-linear and Location Models.
  • Steven Gilbert, PhD, Statistics. Advisors: Ronald Christensen and Edward Bedrick.
  • Laura Ring Kapitula, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Diagnostics for Two-stage Regression Models and Growth Charts.
  • Hwa Ching Liang, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Diagnostic Methods for Accelerated Failure Time Models.

2002

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Nicolas Robidoux, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: Stanly Steinberg and James Hyman. Dissertation: Numerical Solution of the Steady Diffusion Equation with Discontinuous Coefficients.
  • Robert Hagen Wolverton, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Evangelos Coutsias. Dissertation: Shear Layer Stability in a two-dimensional Disk.

Statistics

PhD

  • Dmitry Panchenko, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Vladimir Koltchinskii. Dissertation: Concentration inequalities in product spaces and applications to statistical learning theory.
  • Lyudmila Sakhanenko, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Vladimir Koltchinskii. Dissertation: Asymptotic theory of symmetry: Tests for a multivariate distribution.
  • Nathaniel Tymes Jr., PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Sam Efromovich.
  • Canddy Lillian Yau, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Aparna Huzurbazar. Dissertation: Analysis of censored and incomplete data using flowgraph models.

2001

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Liyang Xu, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: Stanly Steinberg and Thomas Hagstrom. Dissertation: High Order Radiation Boundary Conditions and Their Applications.
  • Ruhai Zhou, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: Thomas Hagstrom and Stanly Steinberg. Dissertation: Accurate and Reliable Numerical Simulations of Combustible Phenomena Using Complex Models.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Mugurel Alexandru Barcau, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Alexandru Buium. Dissertation: The Affine Line Modulo Isogeny.

Statistics

PhD

  • Owen Joyce Shoemaker, PhD, Statistics. Advisors: Pramod Pathak and Vladimir Koltchinskii. Dissertation: Validity and Correctness of the Sequential Bootstrap.

2000

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Amber Dawn Nanette Anderson, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Carla Wofsy. Dissertation: Estimation of Cluster Parameters for Spatial Point Processes with Applications in Cell Biology.
  • Paul Murray Bennett, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Alejandro Aceves. Dissertation: Parallel Numerical Integration of Maxwell's Full-Vector Equations in Nonlinear Focusing Media.
  • Ann M. Kaul, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Deborah Sulsky. Dissertation: Development of an Implicit Material Point Method with Application to Metals Processing.
  • Wangguo Qin, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Jens Lorenz. Dissertation: Self-organized Criticality: Analysis and Simulation of Two One-dimensional Sandpile Models.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Martha Salerno Monteiro, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Terry Loring. Dissertation: Weakly Stable Relations and Inductive Limits of C*-Algebras.

Statistics

PhD

  • Ziqin Han, PhD, Statistics. Advisors: Ronald Christensen and Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Goodness-of-fit Test for Multinomial Regression Models.

1999

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Elwood Moser Douthett Jr., PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Pedro Embid. Dissertation: The Theory of Maximally and Minimally Even Sets, the One-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Ising Model, and the Continued Fraction Compromise of Musical Scales.
  • John Edward Snyder Jr., PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Deborah Sulsky. Dissertation: A Mathematical Analysis of Induced Defenses in a Plant-Herbivore Environment.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Miguel Angel Abánades, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Wojciech Kucharz. Dissertation: Homology and Cohomology Classes Represented by Real Algebraic Sets.
  • Christine Hurlburt, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Alexandru Buium. Dissertation: Isogeny Covariant Differential Modular Forms.
  • Nuria Joglar-Prieto, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Wojciech Kucharz. Dissertation: Regular Mappings into the Two-Dimensional Sphere.

Statistics

PhD

  • Shirley Bleasdale Joubert, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: William Zimmer. Dissertation: Gradient Methods for Kalman Filter Disaggregation of Time Series.
  • Leila S. Nelson, PhD, Statistics. Advisor: Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: A Comparison of Classification Methods for Trauma Scoring and Prediction Outcome.

1998

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Anjan Biswas, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Alejandro Aceves. Dissertation: 1-Soliton Dynamics of the Perturbed Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation.
  • Thomas Roy Brown, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Thomas Hagstrom. Dissertation: Multiple time scale solutions for Navier-Stokes equations for small Mach numbers.
  • George Kvernadze, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Thomas Hagstrom. Dissertation: Locating Discontinuities of a Bounded Function by a Spectral Method.
  • Tamra Jo Mason, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Carla Wofsy. Dissertation: Two Specie Diffusion-Advection-Reaction.

Statistics

PhD

  • Michael Lynn Fugate, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisors: Ronald Christensen and Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Adjusted Means Plots for Detecting Lack of Fit and Lack of Independence in Linear Models.
  • Jodi Ann Lapidus, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Multivariate statistical methods using continuous and discrete data.
  • Robert Lewis Parker, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: William Zimmer. Dissertation: Small Sample and Computational Improvements for Paired Comparisons.

Other

PhD

  • Joseph Scott, PhD, Mathematics.

1997

Statistics

PhD

  • Rebecca Jane Gore, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: William Zimmer. Dissertation: Operating characteristics for a family of continuous sampling plans.
  • Michael Emmett Hardy, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Dissertation: Apportionment of availability in a manufacturing process.

1996

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • David John Torres, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Evangelos Coutsias. Dissertation: Integration operators in the spectral tau-method with Navier-Stokes applications.

1995

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Peter Kindilien, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Jens Lorenz. Dissertation: Numerical computation of invariant curves and invariant tori of systems of ordinary differential equations.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Elizabeth Gasparim, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Charles Boyer. Dissertation: Holomorphic Vector Bundles on Blow-ups.

Statistics

PhD

  • Yao Wang, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisors: Pramod Pathak and William Zimmer. Dissertation: Partial Bayes and Hierarchical Bayes.

1994

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Miguel Gutierrez, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: James Ellison. Dissertation: Random perturbations of dynamical systems: Stochastic averaging results and limit theorems on (0, ∞) intervals.
  • Andrew Philip Price, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: James Finley and Stanly Steinberg. Dissertation: Involutive Exterior Differential Systems for the Type-N Twisting Einstein Vacuum Field Equations.
  • Margaret Lind Sanders, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Carla Wofsy. Dissertation: Analysis of spatial cluster processes: Applications in cell biology.
  • Arlon J. Waters, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Archie Gibson. Dissertation: Breakup theory and computation for three-body scattering with the Chandler-Gibson equations.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • José Gerardo Hernández-García, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Charles Boyer. Dissertation: On hyper f-structures.

Statistics

PhD

  • William C. Epler, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisors: Pramod Pathak and William Zimmer. Dissertation: Bayes, Empirical Bayes and Accelerated Life Testing.
  • Jea-Young Lee, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Clifford Qualls. Dissertation: Identifiability and estimation in linear and non-linear compartment models with application.

1993

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Keith Bergeron, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Evangelos Coutsias. Dissertation: Evolution of Two-Dimensional Circular Shear Layers.
  • Abdulrahim Muhammad Farhat, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Stanly Steinberg. Dissertation: Stability Analysis of Finite Difference Schemes.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Florin Pop, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Frank Gilfeather. Dissertation: Hochschild Cohomology for Finite von Neumann Algebras.
  • Youliang Tian, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Charles Boyer.

Statistics

PhD

  • Frederick C. Breslin, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Edward Bedrick. Dissertation: Estimating the Polyserial Correlation Coefficient.
  • Mudjiandoko, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Pramod Pathak. Dissertation: Controlled Selection in 2-D Stratification: Hungarian Sampling Scheme.
  • Janis Elaine White, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: William Zimmer. Dissertation: A new family of prior distributions under exponential sampling based on Laguerre polynomials.

1992

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Daniel Endres, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: James Ellison.
  • David Steinbach, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: James Ellison and Martin Gutzwiller.
  • Michael Gerard Stoecker, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Jens Lorenz. Dissertation: Admissible boundary conditions for a linearized model of slightly compressible viscous flow.
  • Michael James Wester, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Stanly Steinberg. Dissertation: Symbolic Calculation and Expression Swell Analysis of Matrix Determinants and Eigenstuff.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • T. Arleigh Crawford, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Ben Mann. Dissertation: Full Holomorphic Maps from the Riemann Sphere to Complex Projective Spaces.

Statistics

PhD

  • Robin Carlton Fisher, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: William Zimmer. Dissertation: Essentially non-parametric Bayes empirical Bayes procedures.
  • Ronald Hellmer, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Robert Cogburn. Dissertation: Random splitting times for ergodic processes.
  • Barry Hembree, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: William Zimmer. Dissertation: Adaptive hierarchical Bayes Kalman filtering with application to quantity control.

1991

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Joseph R. Barr, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Roger Entringer. Dissertation: Maximum Bipartite Subgraphs, Maximum k-Colorable Subgraphs and Nordhaus-Gaddum Type Theorems.
  • Joseph Torres, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Ralph DeMarr. Dissertation: Differentiation and Multiplication Operators and the Product Rule.

Statistics

PhD

  • Joo-Hwan Kim, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Clifford Qualls. Dissertation: Discrimination of Objects with Poisson Signals: Theory and Application.

1990

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Thomas Howard Robey, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Stanly Steinberg. Dissertation: The Mixed Finite Element Method.
  • Henry J. Taijeron, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Archie Gibson.
  • Julián G. Tapia-Aguilar, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: James Ellison and Robert Cogburn. Dissertation: Stochastic analysis of directional effects for energetic particles in crystals.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Martin Engman, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Howard Fegan. Dissertation: The Spectrum of a Surface of Revolution.
  • Joseph E. McCanna, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Roger Entringer. Dissertation: Characterization of Self-Dual Graphs and Related Topics in Graph Theory.
  • Thomas Dale Porter, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Roger Entringer. Dissertation: Partitions of Graphs.

Statistics

PhD

  • Mansour Fahimi, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisors: Pramod Pathak and Carla Wofsy. Dissertation: Integration of Surveys and Controlled Selection.

1989

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Patrick M. Knupp, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Stanly Steinberg. Dissertation: Robust Grid Generation on Curves and Surfaces.
  • George William Pletsch, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Archie Gibson.

Statistics

PhD

  • Takashi Hosada, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Richard Griego.
  • Christine Stidley, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Ronald Schrader. Dissertation: The analysis of mixed and random effect models for nonorthogonal designs.
  • Edward Victor Thomas, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Clifford Qualls. Dissertation: Errors-in-Variables Estimation in Multivariate Calibration with Application to Analytical Chemistry.

1988

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • H. Scott Dumas, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: James Ellison. Dissertation: A Mathematical Theory of Classical Particle Channeling in Perfect Crystals.

1987

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Barbara S. Bertram, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Archie Gibson. Dissertation: Analysis and Solution of Integral Equations with Fixed Cauchy Singularities.
  • José E. Castillo-Moreno, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Stanly Steinberg. Dissertation: On Variational Grid Generation.
  • Victor Espino, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Evangelos Coutsias. Dissertation: On point vortex solutions of the Euler equations.
  • David Henry Rutschman, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: David Sánchez and Carla Wofsy. Dissertation: Stability Analysis of a Genetic Model.
  • Kris Stewart, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: Lawrence Shampine and Richard Allen. Dissertation: Semi-implicit backward differentiation formulas.

Statistics

PhD

  • Jorge Aragón, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Pramod Pathak. Dissertation: Linear Programming Algorithms for Optimal Integration of Surveys.
  • Soon Bak Hong, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Dissertation: Comparison problems for experiments with curve response.
  • Kathy C. Hsi, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Dissertation: Estimation of area ratios for oriented structures: application to a problem in cell biology.
  • Paul Ryl, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Pramod Pathak. Dissertation: Some Notes on Probability and Confidence.

1986

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Abdelali Ben Lemlih, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: James Ellison. Dissertation: An Extension of the Method of Averaging to Partial Differential Equations.
  • Luca Dieci, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Robert Russell.
  • Augustin A. Dubrulle, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: Cleve Moler and Archie Gibson. Dissertation: On matrix bidiagonalization and its application to the compression of large digital images.
  • Humberto Madrid de la Vega, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisors: Cleve Moler and Steven Pruess.
  • Jin-Hau Su, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Steven Pruess. Dissertation: The Properties of 1D and 2D Approximation by a Class of Piecewise Cubic Splines.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Karen Anne Johnson, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Dissertation: Largest induced subgraphs of the n-cube that contains no 2k-cycle.

1985

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Hector Alonso Echavarria-Heras, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Carla Wofsy. Dissertation: Mean capture time calculations with applications to cell biology.
  • Rondall Eugene Jones, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Cleve Moler. Dissertation: Solving linear algebraic systems arising in the solution of integral equations of the first kind.
  • Maria del Carmen Jorge y Jorge, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Reuben Hersh. Dissertation: Perturbation Solution of a Non-Linear Boundary Value Problem Arising in Connection with the Earth's Gravitation Field.

Statistics

PhD

  • Robert Lewis Fountain, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Pramod Pathak. Dissertation: Systematic Sampling in the Presence of Polynomial Trends.
  • Agustín Arturo Pichardo-Maya, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Dissertation: Brownian motion in a random environment.

1984

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • James Clark Ferguson, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Steven Pruess. Dissertation: Shape Preserving Parametric Cubic Curve Interpolation.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Hitoshi Ombe, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Cornelis Onneweer. Dissertation: Besov-Type Spaces on Certain Groups.

Statistics

PhD

  • Hae Kyung Kim, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Clifford Qualls. Dissertation: Statistical Properties of Generalized Nonlinear Regression Estimators with Applications.

1983

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Carlos Andradas, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Dissertation: Real places in function fields.

1982

Statistics

PhD

  • Richard Neil Cornez, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Dissertation: Markov chains in random environments with feedback.

1981

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Susan Anderson Nett, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Reuben Hersh. Dissertation: Singular Perturbation of Certain Boundary Value Problems in Banach Space.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Gerald Mark McNerney, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Alexander Stone. Dissertation: A(1,1) Tensor Generalization of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator.

Statistics

PhD

  • Roger Brent Johnson, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Dissertation: Estimation of density and dispersion in m-dimensional space based on distance measurements.

1980

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Leon Joseph Chandler, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Stanly Steinberg. Dissertation: Separation of Variables by the Symmetry Method for Second Order Linear Partial Differential Equations.
  • Jack Dongarra, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Cleve Moler. Dissertation: Improving the Accuracy of Computed Matrix Eigenvalues.
  • Crépin Marie Mahop, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Reuben Hersh. Dissertation: High-Accuracy Stable Difference Schemes for Time-Dependent-Coefficient Evolution Equations.
  • Timothy Guy Trucano, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Archie Gibson. Dissertation: Asymptotic Completeness in an Approximate Model of Quantum Mechanical Scattering Theory.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Curtis Anthony Barefoot, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Roger Entringer. Dissertation: Extremal Maximal Uniquely Hamiltonian Graphs.
  • Lane Clark, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Roger Entringer.

Statistics

PhD

  • Clifford Anthony Ball, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Clifford Qualls. Dissertation: Statistical Estimation of a Piecewise Linear Barrier for Brownian Motion Based on First Passage Times.

1979

Applied Mathematics

PhD

Statistics

PhD

1978

Statistics

PhD

1977

Applied Mathematics

PhD

1976

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • James George Sanderson, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Cleve Moler. Dissertation: A Proof of Convergence for the Tridiagonal QL Algorithm in Floating-Point Arithmetic.
  • John William Starner Jr., PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Cleve Moler. Dissertation: A Numerical Algorithm for the Solution of Implicit Algebraic-Differential Systems of Equations.
  • Henry Joel Trussell, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Bobby Hunt. Dissertation: Improved Methods of Maximum a Posteriori Image Restoration.

Pure Mathematics

PhD

Statistics

PhD

  • Charles B. Davis, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: William Zimmer. Dissertation: The Use of Prior Observations in Constructing Prediction Intervals for the Normal Distribution.
  • Jakob Israel Reich, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Julius Blum. Dissertation: Random Ergodic Sequences and P-occupancy Sets (PDF, 74 MB).
  • Chiu-Yung Tai, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: William Zimmer. Dissertation: A continuous sampling plan by attributes: its generality and Bayes consideration.
  • Chi-Ming Tang, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Dissertation: Estimations of hazard functions by spline functions.
  • Raymond E. Williams, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisors: Pramod Pathak and William Zimmer. Dissertation: Estimation of Parameters in Accelerated Models.

Other

PhD

1975

Statistics

PhD

  • Russell Vernon Lenth, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: Herbert T. Davis III. Dissertation: Applications of Generalized Spline Functions to Empirical Bayes Estimation.
  • Dorothy Rybaczyk Pathak, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Advisor: William Zimmer. Dissertation: Estimation of Growth Curves by Least Square Splines.

1974

Applied Mathematics

PhD

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Richard Michael Grassl, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Abraham Hillman. Dissertation: Levi Structures for Polynomial Ideals.
  • Derek Armstrong Snyder, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Dissertation: Distance in graphs.

Statistics

PhD

1973

Applied Mathematics

PhD

Pure Mathematics

PhD

Statistics

PhD

Other

PhD

1972

Applied Mathematics

PhD

Pure Mathematics

PhD

Statistics

PhD

Other

PhD

1971

Applied Mathematics

PhD

Pure Mathematics

PhD

Statistics

PhD

1970

Applied Mathematics

PhD

Pure Mathematics

PhD

Statistics

PhD

1969

Applied Mathematics

PhD

Master of Mathematics

Pure Mathematics

PhD

Statistics

PhD

1968

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MA

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Marion Edward Moore, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Arthur Steger. Dissertation: Some Results on Completability in Commutative Rings.
  • Billy Joe Thorne, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Melvin Janowitz. Dissertation: Right Congruences on Baer Semigroups.

Statistics

PhD

  • Antony Wells Warren, PhD, Mathematics (Statistics). Dissertation: Stochastic linear estimation in Hilbert space.

Other

PhD

  • Hugo Teufel Jr., PhD, Mathematics.

1967

Applied Mathematics

PhD

Pure Mathematics

PhD

Statistics

PhD

1966

Applied Mathematics

PhD

MA

1965

Pure Mathematics

PhD

  • Anne K. Steiner, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Jörg Mayer-Kalkschmidt.
  • J. Dalton Tarwater, PhD, Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Donald Dubois. Dissertation: A Galois Theory of Abelian Groups.

1964

Applied Mathematics

PhD

  • Arthur McHarg Breipohl, PhD, Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Arnold Koschmann. Dissertation: Adaptive Communication Systems.

Statistics

PhD

1963

Pure Mathematics

PhD

1962

Applied Mathematics

PhD

1960

Applied Mathematics

MS

Statistics

MS

1956

Applied Mathematics

MS

Pure Mathematics

MS

Statistics

MS

1955

Applied Mathematics

MS

1953

Pure Mathematics

MS

1951

Pure Mathematics

MS

1949

Pure Mathematics

MS

1947

Statistics

MA

1945

Pure Mathematics

Master's

1944

Pure Mathematics

MA

1943

Pure Mathematics

MA

1941

Pure Mathematics

MS

1940

Applied Mathematics

MA

Pure Mathematics

MA

Statistics

MA

Other

MA

1939

Pure Mathematics

MS

1938

Applied Mathematics

MS

Mathematics Education

MA

1937

Pure Mathematics

MA

1936

Pure Mathematics

MA

Master's