Graduate Program

Alumni

PhD Alumni of the Graduate Program
Year	Name	Advisor	Last known employment
2020	Keping Huang	Tucker	Postdoc at Michigan State University.
	Nikolaus Chatzikonstantinou	Iosevich and Mkrtchyan	Postdoc at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
	Evan Witz	Geba	Analytical Consultant, Parker Avery Group.
	Jun-Wen Peng	Tucker	Completed Ph.D. in April. Plans TBA.
	Fatma Cicek	Gonek	Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar.
	Martin Snow	Haessig	Completed Ph.D. in June. Plans TBA.
	Shouman Das	Cohen	Goldman Sachs.
	Jacob Lichtinger	Pakianathan	Completed Ph.D. in August. Plans TBA.
	Erin Crossen	Pakianathan and Mkrtchyan	Niagara University.
	Robert Magnus	Kleene	Completed Ph.D. in August. Plans TBA.
2019	George Grell	Tucker	Actuarial Analyst at Humana, Louisville, Kentucky.
	Philipp Birklbauer	Iosevich	Software Engineer at SpotHero, Chicago.
	Ugur Yigit	Ravenel	Instructor at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey.
	Murat Guner	Kleene	Assistant Graduate Program Director for Data Science, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, U. Maryland, Baltimore County.
	Clayton Lungstrum	Gonek	Virginia Tech.
	Qibin Shen	Thakur	Completed Ph.D. in September. First job TBA.
	Qiaofeng Zhu	Cohen	Lecturer at University of Massachusetts, Boston.
2018	Yesim Demiroglu-Karabulut	Pakianathan and D. Covert (U. Missouri-St.Louis)	Hearst Instructor in Mathematics at Caltech.
	Scott Kirila	Gonek	3 year Postdoc at University of Exeter, United Kingdom.
	Yexin Qu	Ravenel	Ph.D. program in Linguistics at Cornell.
	Shuhui Shi	Thakur	Texas A&M, College Station.
	Mingcong Zeng	Ravenel	Utrecht University, Netherlands.
	Yan Zou	Ravenel	Citibank, Assistant Vice President in Model Risk Management.
2017	Siegfred Baluyot	Gonek	J.L. Doob Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
	Fan Ge	Gonek	Postdoc, University of Waterloo, CANADA
	Kevin Lin	Mueller	Data Scientist at Upstart
	Bochen Liu	Iosevich	Postdoc at Chinese University of Hong Kong
2016	Dillon Ethier	Iosevich	Prognos Inc.
	Vyacheslav Kiria-Kaiserberg	Mueller	Prognos Inc.
	Malcolm Kotok	Haessig	National Security Agency
	Brendan Murphy	Iosevich and Pakianathan	Postdoc at Heilbronn Institute at University of Bristol, UK
	Patrick Papadopulos	Cohen and Pakianathan	Rochester Institute of Technology
	Denitza Straub	Greenleaf	Rochester Institute of Technology
2015	Mike Bennett	Iosevich and Pakianathan	Visiting Professor at St. Thomas Aquinas College
	Jamie Juul	Tucker	Postdoc at University of British Columbia.
	Meg Walters	Starr	Data Scientist at Allstate Insurance
2014	Esen Aksoy	Iosevich and Pakianathan	Postdoc at Middle East Technical University, Ankara
	Ali Al-Raisi	Cohen	Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
	Matthew Creek	Geba	3 year Postdoc at University of Chicago.
	Zhuang Hou	Mueller	Prognos Inc
2013	Chad Gratton	Tucker	Financial analyst
	Don Larson	Ravenel	Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America
	Steve Lester	Gonek	Lecturer in Number Theory, Queen Mary University of London
	Mentor Stafa	Cohen	Professor of Practice, Tulane University
	Xiang Zhang	Geba	Fixed-Income and Derivatives Researcher at RationalStone Investment, China
	Yan Zeng	Mueller	Data scientist at Didi Chuxing
2012	Hyunjoo Cho	Salur	National Taiwan University
	Alejandro Gomez	Mueller	Senior market risk model validator, ING (Amsterdam)
	Daniel da Silva	Geba	Assistant Professor at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
	Krystal Taylor	Iosevich	Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University
	Adam Towsley	Tucker	Lecturer at Rochester Institute of Technology
2011	Suresh Eswarathasan	Greenleaf	Assistant Professor at Cardiff University, United Kingdom
	Kalyani Madhu	Tucker	Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Rochester
	A. J. Todd	Salur	Assistant Professor at University of South Alabama
2010	Jonathan Lopez	Cohen	Assistant Professor, Canisius College
2009	Joel Dreibelbis	Tucker	Senior Lecturer, Rochester Institute of Technology
	Tao Jin	Cohen	Assistant Professor of Finance, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, CHINA.
	Sun Qiang	Cohen	Research Associate, Aetna Health
	Vijay Sookdeo	Tucker	Associate Professor at The Catholic University of America
	Justin Sukiennik	Tucker	Director of the Pre-Calculus Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2008	Huibin Li	Mueller	Applied Math Department, Central University of Finance and Economics, China
	Ji Bian	Gonek	Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University
	Haijun Huang	Mueller	Director, Department of Statistics and Finance, Guangxi University of Science and Technology
	Micah Milinovich	Gonek	Associate Professor, University of Mississippi
	Emanuel Palsu-Andriescu	Greenleaf	Monmouth University
	Andrew Salch	Ravenel	Associate Professor, Wayne State University
2007	Lei Liang	Mueller	40\|86 Advisors
	Naiji Lu	Mueller	Professor, School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology
	Heng Xue	Mueller	Essent Guaranty
	R ui Hu	Greenleaf	Director, Quantitative Finance Manager, Bank of America
	Sung Eun Kim	Greenleaf	Associate Professor, Judson University
	Zhixin Wu	Mueller	Associate Professor, DePauw University
	Xi Zhao	Mueller	Novartis Pharmaceutical
2006	Rui Chen	Mueller	Amazon
	Bin Fang	Mueller	Mass Mutual Financial
2004	Raluca Felea	Greenleaf	Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
	Wan Tang	Greenleaf	Clinical Associate Professor, Tulane University
	Xing Qiu	Cranston	Assistant Professor, UR Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
	Yilian Zhang	Nachman	Associate Professor, Univ. of South Carolina at Aiken
2003	Zokhrab Moustafaev	Gage	Associate Professor, Univ. of Houston, Clear Lake
	Maria Voloshina	Cohen	Professor, California State University, Fresno
2001	Matt Coppenbarger	Lavine	Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
	Alexander Kasiukov	Lubkin	Associate Prof, Suffolk Community College
2000	Takeshi Sato	Cohen
	Vivekananda Sondhi	Gonek	Commerzbank Securities, London
1999	Eva Culakova	Harper	Research Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Rochester.
	Yi Liu	Li	Software Engineer, Optical Gaging Products
	Tiantang Peng	Lubkin	United Health Group, Minneapolis
1998	Tianpei Huang	Cranston	Deceased
	Nga Wai Liu	Guest	Asst. Prof, Hang Seng Management College, CHINA
	Celine Lossa	Neisendorfer	Project Analyst, Programming Planning Professionals
	Boon-Wee Ong	Guest	Asst. Prof, Penn State Erie
	Kung-Kuen Tse	Gitler	Asst. Prof, Kean University
	Qingji Yang	Cranston	Arthur Anderson Corp.
1997	Cristian Cobeli	Gonek	Asst. Prof, Romanian Acadamy
	Shieh-Shun Fu	Greenleaf	Asst. Prof, Chung-Yu College of Business Admin, Taiwan
	Jose Gaggero	Gonek	Asst. Prof, Catholic University, Santiago, Chile
	Jung-Soon Hyun	Lavine	Asst. Prof, Kyung-pook National University, Korea
	Lianfang Liu	Nachman	Minneapolis Community College
	Jeffrey Wang	Cohen	Systems Analyst, IBM
	Miguel Xicotencatl	Cohen	Asst. Prof, Centro de Investigacion, Mexico City
1996	Nora Franzova	Mueller	Assistant Professor, Langara College
	Alina Stancu	Gage	Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal
	Qun Xie	Guest	System Analyst, Associate Customhouse Brokers
1995	Hezhou Tu	Nachman	Programmer
	Jie Wu	Cohen	National University of Singapore
	Seonhee Yoon	Gitler	Asst. Prof, Korea
1994	Cheri Boyd	Pizer	Professor, Nazareth College
	Chien-Hung Chang	Cranston	Asst. Prof, The Providence University, Taiwan
	Jesus Gonzalez	Gitler	Asst. Prof, Centro de Investigacion, Mexico City
	Changmei Liu	Nachman
	Binhua Mao	Ravenel
	Margaret Morrow	Watts	Associate Prof, SUNY Plattsburgh
	Songjie Ren	Jochnowitz
	Yingzhong Wen	Gage
1993	Octavian Cornea	Neisendorfer	Professor, University of Montreal
	Ricardo Fajardo	Mueller
	Ran Levi	Cohen	Professor, University of Aberdeen
	Dai Tamaki	Cohen	Professor, Shinshu University, Japan
1992	Younggi Choi	Ravenel	Professor, National Seoul University, South Korea
	Chy-Bong Chung	Mueller	Professor, SoonChunHyang University, Korea
	In-Suk Kim	Lavine	Won Kwang University, Korea
	Janice L. Pearce	Neisendorfer	Professor, Berea College
1991	Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos	Guest	University of Patras, Department of Mathematics, GR-26500, Patras, Greece
	Jeff Oaks	Gage	University of Indianapolis
	Gabriela Sanchis	Mueller	Professor, Elizabethtown College
	Paul Silberbush	Neisendorfer	Actuary, Guy Carpenter and Co., New York
	Shiu-chun Wong	Cohen	Zechiang University, Hangchou. Email: scwong@math.zju.edu.cn
1989	Sam Northshield	Mueller	Professor, SUNY Plattsburgh
1988	Li Liu	Mueller	Associate Professor, Tunghai University, Taiwan
	James Conklin	Cranston	Associate Professor, Ithaca College
	Min-Jei Huang	Lavine	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
	Xin Zhou	Nachman	Professor, Duke University; SIAM Polya Prize, 1998.
1987	Young Doo Chai	Gage	Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul Korea
	Marie Anna Maier	Harper
1984	Cesar Silva	D. Stone	Professor, Williams College; Fellow of the AMS.
1981	Claudio Fernandez	Lavine	Catholic University of Chile
	Kenneth Edwin Howell	Watts
1977	Daciberg Goncalves	Harper	Professor, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
	Frederico Xavier	Lavine	Notre Dame
1973	Laura Weiss	Harper
	Gerald Lieberman	Harper

Graduates from earlier years may be found using the Mathematics Genealogy Project, from which some of this data was compiled.