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Congratulations on Achieving Your PhD!
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The UNCG Department of Mathematics and Statistics has a growing list of students that have successfully defended their PhD dissertations this summer! Congratulations to all!
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](https://mathstats.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/matt-farmer-squ-300x300.jpg)
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](https://mathstats.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/satyajith-squ-300x300.jpeg)
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](https://mathstats.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Keta-new-phd-squ-300x300.jpg)
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](https://mathstats.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/dustin-shivaji-phd-squ-300x300.jpg)
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](https://mathstats.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/wendy3squ-300x300.jpg)
Dr. Wenhao Shou and advisor, Dr. Sat Gupta