PhD list

# Student Year PhD Advisor PhD Title
1 Kim Factor 1988 Rich Lundgren Directed Biclique Covers and Partitions of Digraphs
2 Chaoqun Liu 1989 Steve McCormick Multilevel Adaptive Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics
3 Zhiqiang Cai 1990 Steve McCormick Theoretical Foundations for the Finite Volume Element Method
4 Craig Rasmussen 1990 Rich Lundgren Interval Competition Graphs of Symmetric Digraphs and Two Step Graphs of Trees
5 Van Henson 1990 Bill Briggs Fourier Methods of Image Reconstruction
6 Bert Bradford 1991 Roland Sweet Fast Fourier Transforms for Direct Solution of Poisson's Equation
7 Scott Lett 1991 Jan Mandel Domain Decomposition Preconditioners for Thin Rectangular p-Version Finite Elements
8 Hugh King 1992 Bill Briggs A Method of System Identification Applied to a Simulation of Human Exercise
9 James Otto 1992 Tom Manteuffel Multilevel Methods for the Solution of Advection-Dominated Elliptic Problems on Composite Grids
10 Charles Anderson 1992 Rich Lundgren Niche Graphs and Niche Numbers: New Results and Alternative Definitions
11 Zhining Liu 1993 Steve McCormick Multigrid Methods for Simulation of Flow Transition
12 Suely Oliveira 1993 Tom Manteuffel Parallel Multilevel methods for Transport Equations
13 Daniel Quinlan 1993 Steve McCormick Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Algorithms and Object Oriented Design
14 Gao-Ming Yang 1994 Tom Manteuffel Fast Multigrid Solvers for Transport Equations
15 Robb Gilford 1994 Harvey Greenberg An Analysis of Degeneracy
16 George Heine 1994 Bennett Fox Smart Simulated Annealing
17 Klaus Ressel 1994 Tom Manteuffel Least-Squares Finite-Element Solution of the Neutron Transport Equation in Diffusive Regimes
18 Sarah Merz 1995 Rich Lundgren Competition Graphs, p-Competition Graphs, Two-Step Graphs, Squares and Domination Graphs
19 Mark Parker 1995 Jennifer Sanchez A Set Covering Approach to Infeasibility Analysis of Linear Programming Problems and Related Issues
20 Holly Zullo 1995 Harvey Greenberg Feasible Flows in Multicommodity Graphs
21 Jim Jones 1995 Steve McCormick A Mixed Finite Volume Element Method for Accurate Computation of Fluid Velocities in Porous Media
22 Eric Phelps 1996 Rich Lundgren Factor Rank of Boolean Matrices
23 Ronald Van Iwaarden 1996 Weldon Lodwick An Improved Unconstrained Global Optimization Algorithm
24 David Dean 1996 Tom Russell An Analysis of the Stochastic Approaches to the Problems of Flow and Transport in Porous Media
25 Patricia Mckenna 1996 Rich Lundgren p-Competition Graphs and p-Neighborhood Graphs
26 Rick Trujillo 1996 Tom Russell Error Analysis of the Finite Volume Element Method for Elliptic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations
27 Victor Bandy 1996 Joel Dendy Black Box Multigrid for Convection-Diffusion Equations on Advanced Computers
28 Teri Barth 1996 Tom Manteuffel Implementation of the Conjugate Gradient Method Using Short Multiple Recursions
29 Marian Brezina 1997 Jan Mandel Robust Iterative Methods on Unconstructed Meshes
30 Mark Dillon 1998 Kathryn Fraughnaugh Conditional Coloring
31 Radek Tezaur 1998 Jan Mandel Analysis of Lagrange Multiplier Based Domain Decomposition
32 Anne Spalding 1998 David Fisher Min-Plus Algebra and Graph Domination
33 Allen Holder 1998 Harvey Greenberg Sensitivity Analysis and the Analytic Central Path
34 K. David Jamison 1998 Weldon Lodwick Modeling Uncertainty Using Probabilistic Based Probability Theory With Applications to Optimization
35 Guillermo Jimenez 1998 Rich Lundgren Domination Graphs of Near-Regular Tournaments and the Domination-Compliance Graph
36 Daniel MacMillan 1999 Harvey Greenberg Relaxing Convergence Conditions To Improve The Convergence Rate
37 (Doris) Ellen Applebaum 1999 Bill Briggs and Shelly Goggin Fuzzy Modeling and Control of Chaotic Dynamical Systems
38 Mark Miller 1999 Stan Payne Generalized Quadrangles of Order (s, t) with |s - t| = 2
39 Ali Nesliturk 1999 Leo Franca Approximating the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations Using a Two-Level Finite Element Method
40 Caroline Heberton 2000 Tom Russell Eulerian-Lagrangian Localized Adjoint Method and Smoothed Aggregations Algebraic Multigrid
41 Daluss Siewert 2000 Richard Lundgren Biclique Covers and Partitions of Bipartite Graphs and Digraphs and Related Matrix Ranks of {0,1}-Matrices
42 Faun Doherty 2000 Rich Lundgren Topics on Domination Graphs of Tournaments
43 Markus Emsermann 2000 Burt Simon Variance Reduction with Quasi Control Variates
44 Leanne Holder 2001 Bill Cherowitzo Blocking Sets of Conics
45 John Wilson 2001 Tom Russell Efficient Solver for Mixed and Control-Volume Mixed Finite Element Methods in Three Dimensions
46 Mirela Popa 2002 Jan Mandel Finite Element Solution of Scattering in Coupled Fluid-solid Systems
47 John Starrett 2002 Bill Briggs Geometric Control of Low-Dimensional Chaotic Systems
48 Saulo Pomponet Oliveira 2002 Leo Franca Discontinuous Enrichment Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics
49 Mark Werner 2003 Karen Kafadar Identification of Multivariate Outliers in Large Data Sets
50 Merico Argentati 2003 Andrew Knyazev Principal Angles between Subspaces as Related to Rayleigh Quotient and Rayleigh Ritz Inequalities with Applications to Eigenvalue Accuracy and an Eigenvalue Solver
51 Chariya Uiyyasathain 2003 Kathryn Fraughnaugh Maximal-clique Partitions
52 Dave Brown 2004 Richard Lundgren Variations on Interval Graphs
53 Christopher Mehl 2004 Craig Johns Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling and Markov Chain Simulation for Chronic Wasting Disease
54 Arthur Busch 2005 Michael Jacobson Arc-Traceable Tournaments
55 Dustin Stewart 2004 Rich Lundgren Domination and Matrix Properties in Tournaments and Generalized Tournaments
56 Abram Jujunashvili 2005 Andrew Knyazev Angles Between Infinite-Dimensional Subspaces
57 Robert Rostermundt 2005 Stan Payne Elation Groups of the Hermitian Surface H(3,q2) Over a Finite Field of Characteristic 2
58 Tessa Weinstein 2006 Lynn Schreyer, formerly Lynn Bennethum Three-Phase Hybrid Mixture Theory for Swelling Drug Delivery Systems
59 Gregory Lobser 2006 Karen Kafadar Classification of Continuous Shape Data
60 John Weigand 2006 Michael Jacobson Size Bound and Ramsey-Type Numbers
61 Ilya Lashuk 2007 Andrew Knyazev On Preconditioning for Linear Equations and Eigenvalue Problems
62 Jesse Gilbert 2008 Michael Jacobson Irregularity Strength of Digraphs
63 Jonathan Beezley 2009 Jan Mandel High-Dimensional Data Assimilation and Morphing Ensemble Kalman Filters with Applications in Wildfire Modeling
64 Stephen Flink 2009 Stan Payne Truncated Quadrics and Elliptic Curves
65 Angela Harlan 2009 Mike Jacobson Cycle Structures in Graphs
66 Armen Zakharyan 2009 Karen Kafadar Stochastic Diffusion Model of Heterogeneous Populations
67 Mark Labovitz 2009 Steve Sain Using Return Level in a Statistical Model for the Joint Distribution of Extreme Values of Equities
68 Chris Harder 2010 Leo Franca Residual Local Projection Methods for the Darcy Problem
69 Bedřich Sousedík 2010 Jan Mandel Adaptive-Multilevel BDDC
70 Craig Tennenhouse 2010 Mike Jacobson Some Extensions of Graph Saturation to Edge Colored, Oriented and Subdivided Graphs
71 Tod Morrison 2010 Harvey Greenberg A New Paradigm for Robust Combinatorial Optimization: Using Persistence as a Theory of Evidence
72 Elizabeth Stock 2010 Weldon Lodwick Gradual Numbers and Fuzzy Optimization
73 Phantipa (Yim) Thipwiwatpotjana 2010 Weldon Lodwick Linear Programming Problems for Generalized Uncertainty Mathematics
74 Timothy Vis 2010 Bill Cherowitzo Monomial Hyperovals in Desarguesian Planes
75 Eugene Vecharynski 2010 Andrew Knyazev Preconditioned Iterative Methods For Linear Systems, Eigenvalue And Singular Value Problems
76 Keith Wojciechowski 2011 Lynn Schreyer, formerly Lynn Bennethum Analysis and Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Volterra Partial Integrodifferential Equations Modeling Swelling Porous Materials
77 Breeann Flesch 2011 Rich Lundgren On Interval Representations and Symmetries of Graphs
78 Minjeong Kim 2011 Jan Mandel Reaction Diffusion Equations and Numerical Wildland Fire Models
79 A.M. Melissa Santos 2011 Karen Kafadar Robust Estimation of Censored Mixture Models
80 Kanognudge Wuttanachamsri 2012 Lynn Schreyer, formerly Lynn Bennethum Modeling the Flow of PCL Fluid Due to the Movement of Lung Cilia
81 Shilpa Dasgupta 2012 Rich Lundgren On Characterizations and Structure of Interval Digraphs and Unit Probe Interval Graphs
82 Morgan Rodgers 2012 Stan Payne On Some New Examples of Cameron-Liebler Line Classes
83 Jeffrey Larson 2012 Steve Billups Derivative-Free Optimization of Noisy Functions
84 Henc Bouwmeester 2012 Julien Langou Tiled Algorithms for Matrix Computations on Multicore Architectures
85 Donald McCuan 2012 Andrew Knyazev Models for spectral clustering and their applications
86 Peizhen Zhu 2012 Andrew Knyazev Angles Between Subspaces and the Rayleigh-Ritz Method
87 Eric Sullivan 2013 Lynn Schreyer, formerly Lynn Bennethum Heat and Moisture Transport in Porous Media: A Coupled Model in Terms of Chemical Potential
88 Matthew Nabity 2013 Julien Langou On Accelerating the Nonsymmetric Eigenvalue Problem in Multicore Architectures
89 Catherine Erbes 2014 Mike Ferrara Extremal Problems for Degree Sequences
90 Brad Lowery 2014 Julien Langou Topics in Communication Avoiding Algorithms and Stability Analysis
91 Timothy Morris 2014 Mike Ferrara New Results on Cycle Structures of Graphs
92 Phil DeOrsey 2015 Bill Cherowitzo Hyperovals and Cyclotomic Sets in AG(2; q)
93 Jennifer White 2015 Mike Ferrara Problems in Structural and Extremal Graph Theory
94 Volodymyr Kondratenko 2015 Jan Mandel Efficient Algorithms for Wildland Fire Simulation
95 Axel Brandt 2016 Florian Pfender Computational Approaches in Graph Theory
96 Brent Thomas 2016 Mike Jacobson Saturation Spectrum for Trees
97 Sesha Dassanayake 2016 Joshua French New Spatio-temporal Methods for Prospective Surveillance of Disease Outbreaks
98 Daniel Yorgov 2016 Stephanie Santorico Combined Admixture and Association Mapping for Complex Traits
99 Devon Sigler 2017 Alex Engau Multi-Objective Optimization under Uncertainty
100 Scott Walsh 2017 Troy Butler Simulation-Based Optimal Experimental Design: Theories, Algorithms, and Practical Considerations
101 Aaron Nielsen 2018 Burt Simon Statistical Analysis of Some Problems in Evolutionary Population Dynamics
102 Lauren Hall 2019 Joshua French Prospective Disease Surveillance with the CUSUM and Spatial Scan Methods
103 Monchai Kooakachai 2019 Stephanie Santorico Development of Likelihood Ratio-Based Statistics For a Familial DNA Search When Population Substructure Exists
104 Luke Nelsen 2019 Stephen Hartke Computational Methods for Graph Choosability and Applications to List Coloring Problems
105 Mengjie Yao 2019 Stephanie Santorico Dual block canonical correlation analysis with an application in genetics
106 Subrata Paul 2019 Stephanie Santorico Modeling Heterogeneity in an Association Framework for a Complex Trait through the Use of Mixture Models
107 Stephan Patterson 2020 Steffen Borgwardt Algorithms for Discrete Barycenters
108 Chase Viss 2020 Steffen Borgwardt Circuits in Optimization
109 Emileigh Willems 2020 Stephanie Santorico Increasing Power of Trans-ethnic Meta-analysis Methods by Enhanced Utilization of Admixed Samples
110 Jordan Hall 2020 Troy Butler, Varis Carey Accelerating Derivative-Free Optimization with Dimension Reduction and Hyperparameter Learning with Applications to Stochastic Inverse Problems
111 Megan Null 2020 Audrey Hendricks Advancement of understudied variants within statistical genetics
112 Michael Phillips 2020 Florian Pfender Computational Approaches to Inducibility Problems
113 Michael Pilosov 2020 Troy Butler Computational Advances in Data-Consistent Inversion: Measure Theoretic Methods for Improving Predictions
114 Trevor Hallock 2021 Stephen Billups Model-Based Derivative-Free Optimization with Unrelaxable Constraints
115 Minh Chau Nguyen 2021 Erin Austin A novel method emphasizing simultaneous associations between correlated phenotypes and a genetic mutation to discover candidate pleiotropy
116 Daniel Bielich 2021 Julien Langou Orthogonalization Algorithms in the Context of Modern High Performance Computation and their Stability
117 James Haley 2021 Jan Mandel Assimilation of Satellite Active Fires Data
118 Mohammad Meysami 2021 Joshua French Prediction and Cluster Detection for Spatial Data
119 Tian Yu Yen 2021 Troy Butler Stochastic Uncertainty Analysis for Data-Consistent Approaches to Inverse Problems
120 Wenjuan Zhang 2021 Troy Butler Convergence Analysis of Solutions to Data-Consistent Inverse Problems Utilizing Surrogate Models
121 Eric Culver 2022 Stephen Hartke Computational Methods Applied to Graph Coloring Problems
122 Nathan Graber 2022 Michael Ferrara Degree Sequence Realization Problems for Hypergraphs and Applications of the Discharging Method to Entire Coloring
123 Nicholas Weaver 2022 Audrey Hendricks Statistical Tools for Longitudinal Microbiome data: Simulation Frameworks, Method Comparisons, and Development of Association Tests for Longitudinal Microbiome Data
124 Neissrien Alhubieshi 2023 Yaning Liu Global Sensitivity Analysis with Surrogate Modeling
125 Connor Mattes 2023 Florian Pfender Optimization Techniques in Extremal Graph Theory
126 Negar Janani 2023 Erin Austin A novel application of Data-Consistent Inversion to overcome spurious inference in Genome-Wide Association Studies
127 Basma Tumi 2024 Jan Mandel The Probability Distribution of Ensembles of the Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter
128 Weston Grewe 2024 Steffen Borgwardt On Short Combinatorial Walks
129 Kirana Bergstrom 2024 Troy Butler Distributions-Based Methods for Data Consistent Inversion
130 Eric Sullivan 2024 Stephen Hartke Color Degree Sequences and Rainbow Perfect Matching Decompositions
131 Taylor Roper 2024 Troy Butler A Machine-Learning Enabled Framework for Quantifying Uncertainties in Parameters of Computational Models and a Data Sufficiency Procedure
132 Megan Duff 2025 Stephanie Santorico Transfer Learning Methods for Genomic Prediction to Enable Equitable Understanding of Human Disease
133 Michael Burgher 2025 Florian Pfender On the Triangle-Free Inducibility of Paths
134 Vince Herr 2025 Aimé Fournier Spacetime triple wormhole
135 Angela Morrison 2025 Steffen Borgwardt On Circuit-Based Optimization Methods
136 Nicholas Crawford 2025 Steffen Borgwardt and Florian Pfender Extremal Combinatorics and Optimization: The Method and Application of Flag Algebras and Circuits of the Coloring Polytope
137 Drew Horton 2025 Emily Speakman A Scalable Approach to Balancing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Facility Location Optimization
138 Zach Sorenson 2025 Steffen Borgwardt A Cycle-Canceling Heuristics for the Traveling Salesman Problem
139 Isabel Corona Guevara 2026 Yaning Liu Sparse Bayesian Polynomial Chaos Expansion Methods for Uncertainty Quantification
140 Travis Smiley 2026 Emily Speakman A Scalable Multidimensional Kolm-Pollak Approach for Facility Location Problems in Urban Systems
141 Kayley Smiley 2026 Joshua French Spatial Scan Methods for Cluster Detection
142 Courtney Franzen 2026 Farhad Pourkamali Quantifying and Leveraging Predictive Uncertainty in Neural Networks for Data-Efficient and Risk-Aware Learning
143 Michael Schmidt 2026 Yaning Liu Quantifying Uncertainty and Convergence from A Non-Parametric Perspective
144 Jonathon Hirschi 2026 Jan Mandel Time-Warping Recurrent Neural Networks for Transfer Learning
145 Colin Furey 2026 Farhad Pourkamali Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra For Scalable Uncertainty Quantification