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.

  • 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)

    Ryusei 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