Recent PhD graduates and postdocs

Our recently graduated PhD students and former postdocs have found positions in academia and industry.

• Recent PhD Graduates

  Xiao Zhuang
  Thesis: Unilinear residuated lattices
  Summer 2023, advisor Nick Galatos

  Riley Britten
  Blue Canyon Technologies
  Thesis: Topics in Moufang loops
  Summer 2022, advisor Michael Kinyon

  Mariah Barnes
  Baylor University, teaching assistant professor
  Thesis: On loop commutators, quaternionic automorphic loops, and related topics
  Spring 2022, advisor Michael Kinyon

  Alex Stevens
  University of Denver, teaching assistant professor
  Thesis: Local-global results on discrete stuctures
  Spring 2022, advisor Paul Horn

  Ryan Demuse
  Epic Games, technical communicator
  Thesis: Exponential Random Graphs and a Generalization of Parking Functions
  Spring 2021, advisor Mei Yin

  Dan Graybill
  Thesis: Zn Orbifolds of Vertex Operator Algebras
  Spring 2021, advisor Andrew Linshaw

  Adam Purcilly
  Epic, technical solutions engineer
  Thesis: Discrepancy Inequalities in Graphs and Their Applications
  Spring 2020, advisor Paul Horn

  Lauren Nelsen 
  University of Indianapolis, assistant professor
  Thesis: Applications of geometric and spectral methods in graph theory
  Spring 2019, advisor Paul Horn

  Gavin St. John 
  Thesis: Decidability for residuated lattices and substructural logics
  Spring 2019, advisor Nick Galatos

  Kirk Boyer 
  Google
  Thesis: Barrier graphs and extremal questions on line, ray, segment and hyperplane sensor networks
  Spring 2019, advisor Paul Horn and Mario Lopez

  Wesley Fussner 
  Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, University of Nice, postdoctoral scholar
  Thesis: Categories of residuated lattices
  Fall 2018, advisor Nick Galatos

  Nawal Alznad 
  Thesis: T-de Vries algebras
  Summer 2018, advisor Rick Ball

  Dennis Pace 
  Thesis: Surface entropy of shifts of finite type
  Summer 2018, advisor Ronnie Pavlov

  Konrad Aguilar 
  Arizona State University, postdoctoral scholar
  Thesis: Quantum metrics on approximately finite dimensional algebras
  Spring 2017, advisor Frederic Latremoliere

  Masoumah Al Ali 
  Al-Yamamah University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, assistant professor
  Thesis: Z_2 orbifolds of affine vertex algebras and W-algebras
  Spring 2017, advisor Andrew Linshaw

  Gabriel Giron-Garnica 
  Gaming Laboratories International, LLC, assistant director of mathematics
  Thesis: Banach spaces from barriers of high dimensional Ellentuck spaces
  Fall 2016, advisor Alvaro Arias

  Drew Ash 
  Davidson College, postdoctoral scholar
  Thesis: Topological speedups
  Spring 2016, advisor Nic Ormes

  Thomas French 
  University of Denver, teaching assistant professor
  Thesis: Follower and Extender Sets in Symbolic Dynamics
  Spring 2016, advisor Ronnie Pavlov

  Riquelmi Cardona 
  Thesis: The Finite Embeddability Property for some Noncommutative knotted varieties of RL and DRL
  Spring 2015, advisor Nick Galatos

  Mouna Aboras 
  Thesis: Dihedral-like constructions of automorphic loops
  Spring 2015, advisor Petr Vojtechovsky

  Timothy Trujillo 
  Sam Houston State University, assistant professor
  Thesis: Topological Ramsey spaces, associated ultrafilters, and their applications to the Tukey theory of ultrafilters and Dedekind cuts of nonstandard arithmetic
  Spring 2014, advisor Natasha Dobrinen

  Mark Greer 
  University of North Alabama, assistant professor
  Thesis: Loops and their permutation groups
  Spring 2013, advisor Michael Kinyon

  Jenya Kirshtein 
  C12Energy, scientific software developer
  Thesis: Cayley-Dickson loops
  Summer 2012, advisor Petr Vojtechovsky

• Recent Postdocs

  Florencia Orosz Hunziker (9/2022-6/2021)
  Assistant Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder
  PhD 2019 (Yale)
  Advisor: Andrew Linshaw
  Research interest: Representation theory, Lie theory, vertex algebra theory

  Kang Lu (9/2020-6/2022)
  Postdoctoral scholar, University of Virginia
  PhD 2020 (IUPUI)
  Advisor: Andrew Linshaw
  Research interest: Representation theory, quantum algebras, integrable systems

  Sara Botelho-Andrade (9/2019-6/2022)
  Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Denver
  PhD 2019 (University of Missouri)
  Advisor: Alvaro Arias
  Research interest: Frame theory

  Chris Jennings-Shaffer (9/2019-12/2021)
  Postdoctoral scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Seattle
  PhD 2015 (University of Florida)
  Advisor: Shashank Kanade
  Research interest: Number theory, partitions

  Scott Schmieding (9/2019-6/2022)
  Assistant professor, Penn State University
  PhD 2016 (University of Maryland)
  Advisor: Ronnie Pavlov
  Research interest: Symbolic dynamics, algebraic K-theory, ergodic theory

  Sara Ugolini (9/2018-6/2020)
  Marie Curie Fellow at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute IIIA – CSIC, Barcelona, Spain.
  PhD 2018 (University of Pisa) 
  Advisor: Nick Galatos
  Research interest: Algebraic semantics of substructural logics, foundations of approximate reasoning and probability theory of many-valued events.

  Katherine Perry (9/2017-6/2019) 
  Assistant Professor, Soka University
  PhD 2017 (Auburn University) 
  Advisor: Paul Horn
  Research interest: Combinatorics, graph theory, design theory

  Seung Yeop Yang (9/2017-6/2018) 
  Assistant Professor, Kyungpook National University, Korea
  PhD 2017 (George Washington University) 
  Advisor: Petr Vojtechovsky
  Research interest: Low-dimensional topology, algebraic topology related to knot theory, knotted surfaces in 4-space, graph theory.

  Daniel Hathaway (9/2015-6/2018) 
  PhD 2015 (University of Michigan) 
  Assistant Professor, University of Vermont
  Advisor: Natasha Dobrinen
  Research interest: Set theory, cardinal characteristics, descriptive set theory, forcing.

  Aysel Erey (9/2015-6/2017) 
  PhD 2015 (Dalhousie University, Canada) 
  Advisor: Paul Horn
  Research interest: Combinatorics and graph theory, graph polynomials and their roots.

  Izabella Stuhl (9/2014-6/2017 ) 
  PhD 2010 (University of Debrecen, Hungary) 
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Penn State University
  Advisor: Petr Vojtechovsky
  Research interest: Non-associative algebraic structures and applications.

  Lori Alvin (9/2013-6/2015) 
  PhD 2011 (Wisconsin, Milwaukee) 
  Assistant Professor, Bradley University
  Advisor: Nic Ormes
  Research interest: dynamical systems, topological dynamics, symbolic dynamics.

  Jose G. Mijares (9/2013-6/2015) 
  PhD 2007 (Central University of Venezuela) 
  Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Denver
  Advisor: Natasha Dobrinen
  Research interest: Set theory, Ramsey theory, topological dynamics, combinatorics, functional analysis.

  Zhe Liu (9/2012-6/2013) 
  PhD 2010 (University of New Hampshire) 
  Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida 
  Advisor: Frederic Latremoliere
  Research interest: Functional analysis, operator algebras, unbounded operators, mathematical physics.