Mathematics Ph.D. Students, January 1994-Present
For the list of mathematics Ph.D.s in the years 1951-1993, see here.
A * indicates partial support by our VIGRE grants, 2002-2014.
| Ph.D. Student | Baccalaureate Institution | Post Ph.D. Placement | Advisor Name | Degree Conferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beata Hebda | Wroclaw B. Beirut U. | Gainesville Junior C. | Theodore Shifrin | 1994 |
| Deborah Sherman | U. Georgia | Truman State College | Jon Carlson | 1994 |
| Ronnie Burthe | Tulane U. | NSA | Carl Pomerance | 1995 |
| Fred Cheng | Wuhan C. | UNC Greensboro | Carl Pomerance | 1995 |
| Sasa Kresic-Juric | Coastal Carolina U. | Symbol Technologies | Malcom Adams | 1995 |
| Chuang Peng | Beijing Normal U. | Morehouse College | Jon Carlson | 1995 |
| Anitha Srinivasan | Sri Venkateswara U. | U. Puerto Rico | Andrew Granville | 1995 |
| Huason Yin | Wuhan U. | AI Dep't, UGA | Robert Varley | 1996 |
| Hong Zhang | Beijing Normal U. | Florida State U. | Dan Kannan | 1996 |
| Glenn Fox | Wichita State U. | Emory U. | Andrew Granville | 1997 |
| Jon Grantham | U. Michigan | IDA Center for Comp. | Carl Pomerance | 1997 |
| Kevin James | U. Georgia | Penn. State U. | Andrew Granville | 1997 |
| MuYeol Park | Pusan National U. | Dong-A U. Korea | Clint McCrory | 1997 |
| David Smead | Truman State U. | Furman U. | Will Kazez | 1997 |
| Nelson Rushton | Auburn U. | AI Dep't, UGA | Dan Kannan | 1997 |
| Peteris Daugulis | Leningrad State U. | Unknown | Jon Carlson | 1998 |
| Wenjie He | Peking U. | Texas A&M U. | Ming-Jun Lai | 1998 |
| Michelle LeMasurier | U. Colorado | Franklin & Marshall | Clint McCrory | 1998 |
| Shuguang Li | Beijing Normal U. | U. Hawaii-Hilo | Carl Pomerance | 1998 |
| David Penniston | U. Wisconsin | Penn State U. | Dino Lorenzini | 1998 |
| Jason Whitt | Mississippi State U. | Illinois Wesleyan U. | Jon Carlson | 1998 |
| Edgar Fuller | U. Georgia | Duke U. | Clint McCrory | 1999 |
| Gilles Gnacadja | U. National Benin | MATRA Systems, Inc. | David Benson | 1999 |
| Ernie Croot | Centre College | UC Berkeley | Andrew Granville | 2000 |
| Pam Cutter | SUNY Fredonia | Albion College | Andrew Granville | 2000 |
| Dina Khalil | American U. Beirut | Emory U. | Andrew Granville | 2000 |
| Sridar Pootheri | U. Madras | unknown | Rod Canfield | 2000 |
| Mark Watkins | Harvey Mudd | Penn. State U. | Carl Pomerance | 2000 |
| Gang Yu | U. Sci. Tech. China | U. Michigan | Carl Pomerance | 2000 |
| Mucheng Zhang | Yunan Teachers U. | Computer Sci., UGA | Jon Carlson | 2000 |
| Donald Bindner | NE Missouri State U. | Truman State U. | Edward Azoff | 2001 |
| Ruihua Liu | Nankai U. | Imagine Software | Qing Zhang | 2001 |
| Xiangming Xu | Chinese Acad. Sci. | Telchemy Inc. | Ming-Jun Lai | 2001 |
| Blake Hindman* | Florida Atlantic U. | Georgia College | David Benson | 2002 |
| Heunggi Park | Chonbuk Nat'l U. | Emmanuel College | Joseph Fu | 2002 |
| Wayne Tarrant* | Wake Forest U. | Western Kentucky U. | Robert Varley | 2002 |
| Janice Wethington* | Rensselaer | US Govt. | Robert Varley | 2002 |
| Daniele Arcara | U. Torino | U. of Utah | Elham Izadi | 2003 |
| Gerard Awanou | U. Nat. du Benin | IMA, U. Minnesota | Ming-Jun Lai | 2003 |
| Tanya Cofer* | Augusta State U. | Math Ed, UGA | Gordana Matic | 2003 |
| Steve Donnelly | Australian Nat. U. | International U. Bremen | Robert Rumely | 2003 |
| Vitali Vologodsky | Moscow State U. | U. Washington | Valery Alexeev | 2003 |
| Jianwu Wang (PhD in Business Administration) | Sichuan U. | Qing Zhang | 2003 | |
| Paulo Almeida | U. Lisbon | U. Aveiro, Portugal | Andrew Granville | 2004 |
| Michael Beck* | Kennesaw College | Infinity Insurance | Andrew Granville | 2004 |
| Jim Blair* | U. South Carolina | NSA | Akos Magyar | 2004 |
| Tawanda Gwena | U. Zimbabwe | Tufts U. | Valery Alexeev | 2004 |
| Graham Matthews | U. Aukland | Amgen Corp. | Jon Carlson | 2004 |
| Milton Nash | Princeton U. | U. Louisville | Robert Rumely | 2004 |
| Eric Pine* | Lehigh U. | Dep't of Defense | Andrew Granville | 2004 |
| Rene-Michel Shumbusho | U. Rwanda | U. South Florida | Dino Lorenzini | 2004 |
| Victoria Baramidze | Tiblisi State U. | W. Illinois U. | Ming-Jun Lai | 2005 |
| Sungkon Chang | Kangwon Nat. U. | Armstrong Atlantic U. | Dino Lorenzini | 2005 |
| Kyunglim Nam | Yonsei U. | U. Toledo | Ming-Jun Lai | 2005 |
| Moustapha Pemy | ICTP Trieste | N.C. State U. | Qing Zhang | 2005 |
| Charles Pooh | ICTP Trieste | Wolfram Research | Robert Rumely | 2005 |
| Okkyung Cho | Chonbuk Nat. U. | U. Toledo | Ming-Jun Lai | 2006 |
| Chad Mullikin* | State U. West Georgia | Spring Hill C. | Jason Cantarella | 2006 |
| Daeshik Park | Chonbuk Nat. U. | U. Toledo | Robert Rumely | 2006 |
| Jie Zhou | Shanghai U. | E. Carolina U. | Ming-Jun Lai | 2006 |
| Ted Ashton* | S. Adventist U. | NSA | Jason Cantarella | 2007 |
| Zubeyir Cinkir | Middle East Tech. U. | Wolfram Research | Robert Rumely | 2007 |
| Emille Davie* (now Emille Davie Lawrence) | Spelman College | U.C. Santa Barbara | Clint McCrory/ Will Kazez | 2007 |
| Michael Guy* | U. Lafayette | Columbia U. | Valery Alexeev | 2007 |
| Valerie Hower* | SW Texas State U. | Virginia Tech. | Clint McCrory | 2007 |
| Haipeng Liu | Beijing Normal U. | Georgia State U. | Ming-Jun Lai | 2007 |
| Peter Petrov | U. Sophia | Purdue U. | Valery Alexeev | 2007 |
| Joseph Rusinko* | Davidson College | Winthrop U. | Valery Alexeev | 2007 |
| Jianbao Wu | Shanghai U. | unknown | Ming-Jun Lai | 2007 |
| Bobbe Cooper* | Taylor U. | U. Minnesota | Daniel Nakano | 2008 |
| Kenyon Platt* | Utah State U. | Brigham Young U. | Brian Boe | 2008 |
| Caroline Wright* | Rhodes College | U. Arizona | Daniel Nakano | 2008 |
| Chao Zhuang | Fudan U. | PhD student in Finance, USCA | Qing Zhang | 2008 |
| Irfan Bagci | Middle East Technical U. | U. California at Riverside | Daniel Nakano | 2009 |
| Bree Ettinger* | U. of Georgia | Georgia State University | Ming-Jun Lai | 2009 |
| Jerry Hower | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | Florida International U. | Dino Lorenzini | 2009 |
| DongHoon Shin | Korea U. | Korea University | Qing Zhang | 2009 |
| Jie Yu | Fudan University | Roosevelt University | Qing Zhang | 2009 |
| Lirong Yu | Beijing Normal U. | Georgia State University | Qing Zhang | 2009 |
| Hoi Tin Kong | SUNY, Albany | Met Life | Qing Zhang | 2010 |
| Yang (Louis) Liu | Guangzhou U. | Marlboro College | Ming-Jun Lai | 2010 |
| David Prager* | Miami University | Liberty University | Qing Zhang | 2010 |
| Maxim Arap | U. of Georgia | Johns Hopkins University | Elham Izadi | 2011 |
| Qianying (Jane) Hong | Zhongshan U. | University of Kansas | Ming-Jun Lai | 2011 |
| Justin Manning* | U. of Georgia | Applied Technology, Inc. | Robert Varley | 2011 |
| Jennifer Ellis* | Union U. | Mercer U. | Joseph Fu | 2012 |
| Whitney George* | U. of Oregon | West Chester U. | Gordana Matic | 2012 |
| Wenjing Li | S. China U. | Concordia University | William Graham | 2012 |
| Matt Mastin* | Southern Polytechnic | CCP Data and Analytics, Inc. | Jason Cantarella | 2012 |
| Leopold Matamba Messi* | U. de Yaounde | Ohio State University | Ming-Jun Lai | 2012 |
| Nham Ngo | Ho Chi Minh City Nat'l U. | U. of Wisconsin-Stout | Daniel Nakano | 2012 |
| Alex Rice* | U. of Georgia | Bucknell University | Neil Lyall | 2012 |
| Brandon Samples* | U. of Georgia | Georgia College & State U. | William Graham | 2012 |
| James Stankewicz* | U. of Connecticut | Wesleyan University | Pete Clark/Dino Lorenzini | 2012 |
| Nathan Walters* | Drake U. | CCP Data and Analytics, Inc. | Robert Rumely | 2012 |
| Ben Wyser* | Mississippi State U. | U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | William Graham | 2012 |
| David Krumm* | U. de Costa Rica | Claremont McKenna | Dino Lorenzini | 2013 |
| Maurice LeBlanc* | U. of Texas at Austin | Southern Polytechnic State U | Robert Varley | 2013 |
| Stacy Musgrave* | California State U. | Arizona State University | Daniel Krashen | 2013 |
| Duc Duy Nguyen | U. of Natural Science | Mass College of Liberal Arts | Qing Zhang |
2013 |
| Jae-Ho Shin | Seoul National U. | Korea University | Valery Alexeev | 2013 |
| Michael Berglund* | State U. of W. Georgia | Piedmont College | Jason Cantarella | 2014 |
| John Doyle* | University of Georgia | University of Rochester | Robert Rumely | 2014 |
| Sayonita Ghosh Hajra | University. of Calcutta | University of Utah | Gordana Matic | 2014 |
| Xiaoyan (Shannon) Hu | Hunan University | University of West Georgia | Valery Alexeev | 2014 |
| Joel Oakley* | Mississippi State University | Shorter University | Michael Usher | 2014 |
| Andrew Talian* | Lenoir-Rhyne College | Concordia College | Daniel Nakano | 2014 |
| Joseph Tenini* | Furman University | Epic, Madison, WI | Valery Alexeev | 2014 |
| Katherine Thompson* | Oglethorpe University | Davidson College | Daniel Krashen | 2014 |
| Theresa Brons | St. University of West Georgia | Brazil | Daniel Nakano | 2015 |
| Adrian Brunyate* | Towson University | NSF Postdoc Stonybrook | Valery Alexeev | 2015 |
| Allan Lacy | University of Costa Rica | University of Costa Rica | Pete L. Clark | 2015 |
| Nicholas Castro* | Cal State University, Northridge | UC Davis | David Gay | 2016 |
| Will Hardesty* | University of Maryland Baltimore Co. | LSU | Daniel Nakano | 2016 |
| Jacob Hicks* | Clemson University | University of Georgia | Pete L. Clark | 2016 |
| Lauren Huckaba* | Florida State University | US Government | Neil Lyall | 2016 |
| Kenny Jacobs* | University of Tennessee | Northwestern University | Robert Rumely | 2016 |
| Phong Luu* | SUNY at Stony Brook | University of South Alabama | Qing Zhang/ Jingzhi Tie | 2016 |
| Patrick McFaddin* | USC | University of South Carolina | Daniel Krashen | 2016 |
| Tom Needham* | U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Ohio State University | Jason Cantarella | 2016 |
| George Slavov | Bowdoin College | Worldquant, Bulgaria | Ming-Jun Lai | 2016 |
| Lee Troupe* | University of Tennessee | University of British Columbia | Paul Pollack | 2016 |
| Maren Turbow* | Cal State University, Northridge | LexisNexis Risk Solutions | Daniel Krashen | 2016 |
| Matthew Zawodniak* | Union College | Texas State University | Robert Varley | 2016 |
| Jun Zhang | Nanjing Normal University | Tel Aviv University | Michael Usher | 2016 |
| Brian Bonsignore* | UC Berkeley | Software Engineer, qlair | Robert Varley | 2017 |
| Harrison Chapman* | Bowdoin College | Colorado State University | Jason Cantarella | 2017 |
| Natalie Hobson* | University of Washington | Sonoma State University | Angela Gibney | 2017 |
| Hans Parshall* | Humboldt State University | Ohio State University | Neil Lyall / Akos Magyar | 2017 |
| Luca Schaffler | Universita Degli Studi, Roma Tre | University of Massachsetts, Amherst | Valery Alexeev | 2017 |
| Bret Stevenson* | University of Tulsa | State Farm Insurance Company | Michael Usher | 2017 |
| Matthew Houston | University of Tennessee | Middle Georgia College | Juan Gutierrez | 2018 |
| Jay Lanterman | Mercer University | Competitive Intelligence, IHG | Ming-Jun Lai | 2018 |
| Marko Milosevic | Boston University | Wentworth Institute of Technology | Pete L. Clark | 2018 |
| Abraham Varghese | Natl Inst. of Technology | Shenandoah University | Ming-Jun Lai | 2018 |
| Noah Lebowitz-Lockard | Dartmouth College | College of Coastal Georgia | Paul Pollack | 2019 |
| Andrew Maurer | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Bright Machines | Daniel Nakano | 2019 |
| Daniel Mckenzie | University of Cape Town | UCLA | Ming-Jun Lai | 2019 |
| Clay Mersmann | University of Georgia | University of South Florida | Ming-Jun Lai | 2019 |
| Eric Perkerson | University of Georgia | unknown | Alexander Petukhov | 2019 |
| Lori Watson | Florida Atlantic University | Wake Forest University | Pete. L. Clark | 2019 |
| Zerotti Woods | Morehouse College | John Hopkins | Juan Gutierrez | 2019 |
| Xian Wu | University of Idaho | Jagiellonian University | Valery Alexeev | 2019 |
| Ziqing Xiang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Academia Sinica (Taiwan) | Daniel Nakano | 2019 |
| Yidong Xu | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | unknown | Ming-Jun Lai | 2019 |
| Kubra Benli | Bogazici University | Université de Lorraine (Nancy, Fance) | Paul Pollack | 2020 |
| Ernest Guico | Oregon State | Software Engineer, Varian | Danny Krashen | 2020 |
| Jason Joseph | Bates College | Rice University | David Gay | 2020 |
| William Olsen | University of North Florida | University of Virginia | David Gay | 2020 |
| Erik Schreyer | University of Aachen | Ibeo Automotive Systems GmbH (Germany) | Jason Cantarella | 2020 |
| Matt Just | Georgia Southern University | Emory | Paul Pollack | 2021 |
| Mentzelos Melistas | University of Patras | Steklov Inst., Moscow, Russia | Dino Lorenzini | 2021 |
| Thomas Melistas | University of Patras | Technion, Israel | Michael Usher | 2021 |
| Makoto Suwama | University of Sydney | University of Georgia | Dino Lorenzini | 2021 |
| Kenneth Allen | University of Massachusetts, Lowell | Composable Analytics | Ming-Jun Lai | 2021 |
| Komal Agrawal | BITS Pilani | Paul Pollack | 2022 | |
| Sarah Blackwell | Saint Louis University | Max Plank Institute, Bonn, Germany | David Gay | 2022 |
| David Galban | University of South Carolina | University of Georgia | Daniel Nakano | 2022 |
| Andy Jenkins | Clemson University | Indiana University | Daniel Nakano | 2022 |
| Nolan Schock | Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo | University of Illinois at Chicago | Valery Alexeev | 2022 |
| Arvind Suresh | Claremont Mckenna | University of Arizona | Dino Lorenzini | 2022 |
| Paco Adajar | Ateneo de Manila University | current student | ||
| Rishika Agrawal | Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore | current student | ||
| Patrick Akande | Oglethorpe University | current student | ||
| Swapnanil Banerjee | University of Hyderabad | current student | ||
| Ilkiz Bildik | Bogazici University | current student | ||
| Peter Cassels | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | current student | ||
| James Chase | University of Georgia | current student | ||
| Sayan Chattopadhyay | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali | current student | ||
| Michaela Coleman | University of Tulsa | current student | ||
| Raemeon Cowan | Cal State University, Northridge | current student | ||
| Emily Crawford | University of North Georgia | current student | ||
| Chris Dular | Stony Brook | current student | ||
| Gary Dunkerley | Hillsdale College | current student | ||
| Amelia Ernst | Georgia Southern University | current student | ||
| Zack Garza | UC San Diego | current student | ||
| Tyler Genao | Florida Atlantic University | current student | ||
| Chloe George | University of Houston | current student | ||
| Jack Green | Tulane University | current student | ||
| Devashi Gulati | Birla Institute | current student | ||
| Isnayni Hadi | Cal State Northridge | current student | ||
| Matthew Hamil | University of Georgia | current student | ||
| Daniel Hartman | University of West Georgia | current student | ||
| Swaroop Hegde | Homi Bhabha Natl Inst. | current student | ||
| Tsung-Wei Hu | National Taiwan University | current student | ||
| Jie Ji | Rutgers | current student | ||
| Dustin Kasser | University of Rochester | current student | ||
| Geunyoung Kim | Pusan National University | current student | ||
| Lauren LaRue | Flagler College | current student | ||
| Jinsil Lee | Pusan National University | current student | ||
| Gabriel Loos | Georgia Southern University | current student | ||
| Han Lou | Dalian University | current student | ||
| Alex Newman | University of Georgia | current student | ||
| Nagendar Ponagandla | Natl Inst of Tech. | current student | ||
| Nina Ryalls | Wake Forest University | current student | ||
| Freddy Saia | Tufts University | current student | ||
| Zhaiming Shen | University of Pennsylvania | current student | ||
| Sasha Shmakov | University of Oregon | current student | ||
| Casia Siegel | University of Virginia | current student | ||
| Akash Singha Roy | Chennai Math Institute | current student | ||
| Nicole Song | Bard College | current student | ||
| Alex Tepper | Florida International | current student | ||
| Cameron Thomas | Morehouse College | current student | ||
| Ye Tian | Boston College | current student | ||
| Jack Wagner | Armstrong Atlantic | current student | ||
| Haiyang Wang | Beijing Normal | current student | ||
| Terrin Warren | University of Georgia | current student | ||
| Peter Woolfitt | Georgia Inst. of Technology | current student |