Posted on May 29, 2024

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The UNCG Department of Mathematics and Statistics has a growing list of students that have successfully defended their PhD dissertations in 2024! Congratulations to all!

Torre Caparatta successfully defended his PhD dissertation “On Zeros of Fractional Derivatives of Dirichlet Series and Polynomials” on March 8, 2024. Congratulations Dr. Caparatta!

Torre and Shivaji graduation photo
Dr. Torre Caparatta pictured with Dr. R. Shivaji, Graduate Program Director (not pictured, Torre’s advisors, Dr. Filip Saidak and Dr. Sebastian Pauli)

Mingyan Li successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Penalized Weighted Methods for Robust Offline and Online Learning” on March 11, 2024. Congratulations Dr. Li!

Mingyan and Shivaji graduation photo
Dr. Mingyan Li pictured with Dr. R. Shivaji, Graduate Program Director (not pictured, Mingyan’s advisor Dr. Haimeng Zhang)

Matt Farmer successfully defended his PhD dissertation “The Non-Crossing Bond Poset and Topological Indices of Finite Graphs” on May 24, 2024. Congratulations Matt!

Matt Farmer and Cliff Smyth
Dr. Matt Farmer and advisor, Dr. Cliff Smyth

 

Satyajith B. Boyana successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Novel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Optimization Problems with Inequality Constraints”.” on May 24, 2024. Congratulations Satyajith!

Dr. Satyajith B. Boyana and, advisor Dr. Yi Zhang
Dr. Satyajith Boyana and, advisor Dr. Yi Zhang

 

Keta Henderson successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Multiplicity Results for Classes of Steady State Reaction Diffusion equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions” on May 28, 2024. Congratulations Keta!

Dr. Keta Henderson and advisor, Dr. R. Shivaji
Dr. Keta Henderson and advisor, Dr. R. Shivaji

Dustin Nichols successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Existence and Uniqueness of Positive Steady States for Classes of Reaction-Diffusion Equations” on May 29, 2024. Congratulations Dustin!

Dr. Dustin Nichols and advisor, Dr. R. Shivaji
Dr. Dustin Nichols and advisor, Dr. R. Shivaji

 

Wenhao Shou successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Kernel Density Estimation Using Randomized Response Models” on 6/4/24. Congratulations Wendy!

Dr. Wenhao Shou and advisor, Dr. Sat Gupta
Dr. Wenhao Shou and advisor, Dr. Sat Gupta