School of Arts and Sciences
Department of Mathematics

PhD Alumni

Below are recent alumni from our PhD program with their advisor, research interest(s) and first job placement after Tufts. Please note that "Postdoc" refers to a range of different job titles for term-limited mathematics positions with research and teaching components.

  • Mackenzie McPike
    Advisor: Kim Ruane
    Research area: Graph Theory

    Marshall Meuller
    Advisor: James Murphy and Abiy Tasissa
    Research area: Signal processing, mathematical data science

  • Kaiyi Wu
    Advisor: Xiaozhe Hu
    Research area: Graph Theory

    Chris Guevara
    Advisors: David Smyth
    Research Area: Algebraic Geometry 

  • Casey Cavanaugh
    Advisors: James Adler and Xiaozhe Hu
    Research Area: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
    Postdoctoral Researcher at Louisiana State University, Center for Computation & Technology

    Alejandro Coyoli
    Advisors: Fulton Gonzalez and Todd Quinto
    Research Area: Integral Geometry, Harmonic Analysis and Computerized Tomography
    Senior Software Development Engineer at PTC

    Matthew Friedrichsen
    Advisor: Robert Lemke Oliver
    Research Area: Number Theory
    Security Software Engineer at Gradient

    Daniel Keliher
    Advisor: Robert Lemke Oliver
    Research Area: Number Theory, Arithmetic Statistics
    Limited Term Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

    Jeremy Marcq
    Advisor: Bruce Boghosian
    Research Area: Mathematics of Wealth Inequality

    Samuel Polk
    Advisor: James Murphy
    Research Area: Unsupervised Learning, Clustering, Hyperspectral Imagery, and Computational Harmonic Analysis
    Technical Staff at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory

    Curtis Heberle
    Advisor: David Smyth
    Research Area: Algebraic Geometry

    Sheng Xu
    Advisor: Bruce Boghosian
    Research Area: Econophysics
    Research Scientist at Meta

  • Nate Fisher
    Advisor: Moon Duchin
    Research Area: Geometric Group Theory
    Van Vleck Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Nariel Monteiro
    Advisor: George McNinch
    Research Area: Representation Theory
    Lecturer in Mathematics & Statistics at Smith College

    Jue Wang
    Advisor: Fulton Gonzalez
    Research Area: Harmonic Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces

  • Rylee Lyman
    Advisor: Kim Ruane
    Research Area: Geometric Group Theory
    Postdoctoral Associate at Rutgers University–Newark

    Sunrose Shrestha
    Advisor: Moon Duchin
    Research Area: Geometric Topology
    Postdoctoral Fellow at Wesleyan University

    Peter Ohm
    Advisor: Adler
    Research Area: Scientific Computing
    Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories

  • Michael Ben-Zvi
    Advisor: Kim Ruane
    Research Area: Geometric Group Theory
    Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Bowdoin College

    Junyuan Lin
    Advisor: Xiaozhe Hu
    Research Area: Spectral graph theory and algorithms
    Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University

    Elizabeth Newman
    Advisor: Misha Kilmer
    Research Area: Numerical linear algebra, machine learning
    Visiting Assistant Professor of Scientific Computing, Emory University

    Hiroshi Otomo
    Advisor: Bruce Boghosian
    Research Area: Computational fluid dynamics
    R&D manager, Dassault Systèmes

    Hongyan Wang
    Advisor: Bruce Boghosian
    Research Area: Applied mathematics
    Research Scientist, Facebook

  • Anuj Abhishek
    Advisor: Todd Quinto
    Research Area: Inverse problems, microlocal analysis and integral geometry
    Visiting Assistant Professor, Drexel University

    Brendan Burns Healy
    Advisor: Genevieve Walsh
    Research Area: Geometric Group Theory
    Visiting Assistant Professor of Topology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

    Jie Li
    Advisor: Bruce Boghosian
    Research Area: Applied Mathematics
    Applied Scientist, Amazon.com

  • Garret Laforge
    Advisor: Kim Ruane
    Research Area: Geometric Group Theory
    Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee

    Christopher O'Donnell
    Advisor: Genevieve Walsh
    Research Area: Geometric Group Theory
    Software Engineer, Reify Health

    Seth Rothschild
    Advisor: George McNinch
    Research Area: Algebraic Groups
    TBD

    Ayla Sánchez
    Advisor: Moon Duchin
    Research Area: Geometric Group Theory
    Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at
    Wheaton College (MA)

    Melody Takeuchi
    Advisor: Christoph Börgers
    Research Area: Mathematical Neuroscience
    Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at
    Wentworth Institute of Technology

    Jiani Zhang
    Advisor: Misha Kilmer
    Research Area: Numerical Multilinear Algebra
    Quantitative Strategy Analyst at Quantopian

  • Harrison Bray
    Advisor: Boris Hasselblatt
    Research Area: Dynamics
    Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

    Lise Chlebak
    Advisor: Marjorie Hahn
    Research Area: Probability
    Technical Writer, MathWorks

    Meghan O'Connell
    Advisor: Misha Kilmer
    Research Area: Numerical linear algebra
    Software Engineer, MathWorks

    Erica Waite Clay
    Advisor: Boris Hasselblatt
    Research Area: Dynamics
    Operations Analyst at Homesite Insurance

    Qiong Wu
    Advisor: Hahn
    Research Area: Probability
    Corporate Risk Analyst, Synchrony Financial