Mentoring

Postdocs

  1. Carrie Clark (2022-2025) J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor
  2. Bartłomiej Siudeja (2008-2011)
    Data Science Engineer, NextRoll

Graduate Students

  1. Tilila Karani (2025-)
  2. Scott Harman (2021-2026)
    “Scaling inequalities and limits for Robin and Dirichlet eigenvalues”, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 544, no. 2, 2025. doi
    Research Scientist, Meta
  3. Qiuling Fan (2023-2025) PhD Thesis: “Riesz capacity: Hausdorff measure and extremal ratios”
    Software Engineer, Google
  4. Hanna Kim (2019-2024) PhD Thesis: “Upper bounds of second Laplacian eigenvalues on the sphere and the projective space
    Photo: graduation 
    RTG Postdoc, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  5. Derek Kielty (2017-2022) PhD Thesis: “Spectral theory: minimizing Robin gaps, and singular limits for sign-changing weights
    AI Intern, Infinite Analytics
  6. Jooyeon Chung (2013-2018) PhD Thesis: “Fourth order spectral theory and diffusion-driven instability
    Photo: graduation (Jooyeon on right)
    Senior Engineer, Samsung SDS
  7. Shiya Liu (2013-2017) PhD Thesis: “Asymptotically optimal shapes for counting lattice points and eigenvalues
    Photo: graduation (Shiya on left)
    Senior Software Engineer, Google
  8. Sarah Soojin Son (2011-2014) PhD Thesis: “Spectral problems on triangles and disks: extremizers and ground states
    Photo: graduation
    Visiting Instructor, Korea National University of Education, 2014-2015
  9. Jeffrey Langford (2011-2012 co-advisor) Ph.D. Thesis “Comparison theorems in elliptic partial differential equations with Neumann boundary conditions
    Photo: contemplation
    Professor, Bucknell University
  10. Inmi Kim (2008-2011) Ph.D. Thesis “Gabor frames with trigonometric spline dual windows
    Photo: graduation
    Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Kwangwoon University, Korea
  11. Yue M. Lu (2006-2007) M.Sc. Thesis “A sampling theory for signals from a union of subspaces”
    Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
  12. L. Merc Chasman (2005-2009) Ph.D. Thesis “An isoperimetric inequality for fundamental tones of free plates
    Associate Professor, University of Minnesota at Morris
  13. Adrian Iordache (2002 until he died 5 February 2004) Ph.D. student
    Photos: Akaroa and Ball Pass (January 2004)
  14. Kwang C. Shin (1999-2002) Ph.D. Thesis “On some Schrödinger eigenvalue problems from mathematical physics
    Associate Professor, University of West Georgia

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