Graduate Students
Ahmed Alghamdi (MS)
Year 1
Anca Andrei (PhD)
Year 7
Advisor: James Adler
Research Area: Shape Optimization, Nonlinear Methods
Research Bio: I am engaged in research within the realm of computational mathematics and physics, focusing on applications in soft matter like Liquid Crystal tactoids. My primary interest lies in scientific computing, encompassing both physical modeling and numerical computation. I am actively involved in multiple projects, particularly in liquid crystal applications, where I apply finite-element methods and multilevel techniques.
Yinuo Bai (MS)
Year 1
Ingkar Bekzhan (MS)
Year 1
Danshyl Boodhoo (MS)
Year 1
Grace Brophy (PhD)
Year 1
Research Area: Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis
Hobbies: Outside of math, I enjoy making cold brew coffee, watching 80s rom-coms, and hanging out with my 20lb cat, Chester
Martin Buck (PhD)
Year 5
Advisor: Kasso Okoudjou
Research Area: Fourier Analysis, Frame Theory, Spectral Graph Theory
Research Bio: Working with Dr. Okoudjou on a short-time Fourier transform on graphs and the frame set problem for b-splines
Clubs/Organizations: SIAM
Hobbies: Climb, skateboard, cats
Wenxuan Cai (PhD)
Year 1
Charlie Camarena (MS)
Year 1
Grace Chen (MS)
Year 2
David Cohen (PhD)
Year 5
Advisor: Bruce Boghosian
Research Area: Variational methods in infinite-dimensional spaces, generalized Wasserstein metrics, partial integro-differential equations
Previous Degree: Middlebury College (mathematics & physics)
Rob Costa (MS)
Year 1
Vittoria Cristante (PhD)
Year 2
Advisor: Robert Lemke Oliver
Research Area: Arithmetic Statistics, Algebraic Number Theory
Research Bio: My research broadly concerns algebraic number theory, with special interests in arithmetic statistics and representation theory (particularly relating to Galois representations). Recently, I have been interested in the Inverse Galois problem and the adjacent problem of counting number fields with a particular Galois group.
Clubs/Organizations: Tufts DRP Co-Organizer, AWM Tufts Chapter, OGSM - 1st Year Representative (2023-2024), 2nd Year Representative (2024-2025)
Hobbies: Listening to music & attending local live shows, cross-stitching, dancing, baking
David de Frutos Ostrander (MS)
Year 2
Advisors: Kasso Okoudjou, Xiaozhe Hu
Clubs/Organizations: Tufts Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Tufts Wind Ensemble
Hobbies: I play the french horn in both of Tufts' orchestras and in the wind ensemble. I also enjoy practicing or watching different sports such as soccer or ultimate frisbee
Max DeSantis (MS)
Year 1
Nicole Dickson (MS)
Year 1
Advisors: George McNinch, Xiaozhe Hu
Research Bio: My research interests are quite broad, and I am looking to expand and diversify my research portfolio. I have previously done research in Algebra looking at the natural maps between invariant rings and in Statistics exploring the accuracy the sufficiently large condition to assume normality for the Gamma Distribution.
Hobbies: I enjoy baking, dancing, reading, concerts, trivia, and tennis (just to name a few). You can often find me hanging out with my friends and my pets when I’m not studying.
Zachary Dorson (MS)
Year 1
Isaac Dreeben (MS)
Year 1
Wentao Fan (PhD)
Year 4
Advisor: Boris Hasselblatt
Research Area: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
Jingwen Feng (MS)
Year 2
Max Flynn (MS)
Year 1
Odalys Garcia-Lopez (PhD)
Year 1
Research Area: Mathematical Biology, Modeling
Research Bio: My research interests are in mathematical biology, specifically modeling using pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. I’m also interested in the application of PDEs in modeling biological processes.
Samuel Gomez (PhD)
Year 5
Advisor: Boris Hasselblatt
Research Area: Dynamical Systems
Research Bio: Interested in hyperbolic dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaotic billiards, and thermodynamical formalism.
Clubs/Organizations: AMS, Tufts OGSM (Org of Grad Students in Math)
Hobbies: When I'm not thinking about math I enjoy cooking, studying German, going for (long) walks, and catching up with friends. I will never say no to a game of chess!!
Nate Gould (MS)
Year 1
Christina Gruenhagen (MS)
Year 2
Advisor: James Adler
Research Area: Differential Equations, Operations Research
Clubs/Organizations: Graduate Society for Women Engineers, SIAM
Hobbies: Hiking, knitting/crocheting, making coffee, watching hockey/baseball, going to concerts!
Max He (MS)
Year 1
Josh Huang (MS)
Year 2
Hikaru Jitsukawa (PhD)
Year 2
Research Area: Geometric Group Theory and Topology
Research Bio: As an early career researcher, my research is currently broad and expository, but generally falls into one of two categories. My current work in geometric group theory has to do with the intersection of Coxeter groups and Schubert calculus. Certain combinatorial and algebraic properties in this field of study are known or conjectured to be encoded in cleverly constructed geometric realizations. Sometimes, these constructions can even give us a CW-complex or other well-studied space. I am also in the early stages of a project that looks to bring a critical disability studies perspective to understand the ways in which neurodivergence is talked about in mathematical spaces and experienced by individual mathematicians. Please reach out to me if you would like to share your experiences or contribute in any way.
Clubs/Organizations: Department Intramural Basketball Captain, Organization of Graduate
Students in Mathematics- Secretary
Minerva Johar (MS)
Year 1
Chami Kariyapperuma (MS)
Year 1
Anna Kelley (MS)
Year 2
Chris Kotsifakis (MS)
Year 1
Satchel Lefebvre (PhD)
Year 3
Advisors: James Adler, Xiaozhe Hu
Research Area: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Clubs/Organizations: SIAM, OGSM (Upper Year Rep)
Josh Lentz (MS)
Year 1
Cong Liu (MS)
Year 3
Logo Lou (PhD)
Year 6
Advisor: Genevieve Walsh
Research Area: Geometric Group Theory, Low-Dimensional Topology
Antonio Midence Ordonez (MS)
Year 1
Alex Miller (MS)
Year 1
Hobbies: Cooking, hiking, playing video games, petting my cat
Yoni Moise (PhD)
Year 2
Ethan Nanavati (MS)
Year 2
Hieu Nguyen (PhD)
Year 1
Scott Nonweiler (MS)
Year 1
Toluwani Okunola (PhD)
Year 1
Research Area: Optimisation, Imaging, Numerical methods
Hobbies: Reading fiction, cooking, playing the ukulele
Chella Raghavan (MS)
Year 1
Daniel Riley (PhD)
Year 3
Advisors: Kasso Okoudjou, James Adler
Research Area: Harmonic Analysis
Clubs/Organizations: US Orienteering Team
Hobbies: Running/Cycling
Eddie Rohr (PhD)
Year 1
Research Area: Numerical (multi) linear algebra, differential geometry, analysis, and applications to data science.
Hobbies: I like to make espresso and watch Masterchef with my partner. I also like donuts.
Bryan Rust (PhD)
Year 3
Advisor: Boris Hasselblatt
Research Area: Dynamical Systems
Research Bio: My mathematical interests are in the areas of analysis, differential geometry, PDEs, and dynamical systems. I am currently doing background reading in hyperbolic dynamics, geodesic flows, and ergodic theory.
Clubs: Organization of Grad Students in Mathematics, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, American Mathematical Society
Hobbies: I enjoy board games, pub trivia, rewatching my favorite TV shows, trying new cuisine, and exploring the city.
Dylan Ryan (PhD)
Year 4
Advisor: Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas
Research Area: Algebraic Geometry
Hobbies: I love to play piano and mess around with instruments in general, and I always enjoy a
game of chess. I also really enjoy playing sports, like softball or volleyball!
Alex Saigeon (MS)
Year 2
Adnan Sardjito (MS)
Year 1
Chandler Smith (PhD)
Year 5
Advisor: Abiy Tasissa
Research Area: Machine Learning, Geometric Optimization, Manifold Learning, Matrix Analysis, Optimal Transport
Research Bio: I'm currently interested in Riemannian methods for solving the partial Euclidean distance geometry problem and its applications to manifold learning. I'm also interested in applications of optimal transport to machine learning theory.
Clubs/Organizations: OGSM, SIAM, DRP, Tufts Math Dept. Softball, Tufts Math Dept. Intramural Basketball
Hobbies: I'm an amateur chef, avid Denver Nuggets fan, and shortstop for the Vector Bases (our Math Dept. softball team).
Xiao Tan (PhD)
Year 2
Amanda Tran (MS)
Year 2
Chidera Ugbonta (MS)
Year 2
Brandon Voci (MS)
Year 1
Kate Wall (PhD)
Year 3
Advisor: Misha Kilmer
Research Area: Multilinear algebra, numerical linear algebra, numerical methods for PDEs
Research Bio: I’m interested in numerical (multi) linear algebra and numerical methods for solving partial
differential equations. More specifically, I work on building preconditioners for PDEs using tensors and tensor decompositions.
Clubs/Organizations: OGSM president
Hobbies: I love to sew and knit, obsess over the Detroit Lions, and chill with my very cuddly cat, Moose.
JinCheng (JC) Wang (PhD)
Year 7
Advisor: Boris Hasselblatt
Research Area: Hyperbolic Dynamics
Research Bio: I currently study magnetic geodesic flows of surfaces with negative curvature, in particular the existence and uniqueness of the measure of maximal entropy.
Hobbies: Reading, cross-country skiing and rowing
Brittney Whiting (MS)
Year 1
Zhongqin Xue (PhD)
Year 2
Zixiao Yang (PhD)
Year 1
Mingyang Zhou (MS)
Year 1