Current PhD Students

Robert Álvarez, ASU, Ph.D. May 2014

Current PhD Co-Advisees

Benjamin Robinson, (co-advisor with D. Cochran) ASU, Ph.D. May 2014

Former PhD Students

Youngjoon Cha : Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 143-747 South Korea.
Quanzhu Duan: Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Corporation, 2581 Junction Avenue, San Jose, CA 95134.
  • Thesis (incomplete): A first-second order splitting method for a third order partial differential equation (Purdue University, 1995)
David Gerberry: Post-doctoral Scholar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Center for Biomedical Modeling, Disease Modeling Group, 10940 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1450, Los Angeles, CA 90024-3916
  • Thesis: Mathematical models of tuberculosis and childhood diseases: very different approaches for very different diseases (Purdue University, 2009)
Mi-Young Kim: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon, 402-751 South Korea.
  • Thesis: Modeling the effect of screening in the propagation of an epidemic (Purdue University, 1993)
YongHoon Kwon: Professor, Department of Mathematics, POSTECH, Pohang, 790-784 South Korea.
  • Thesis: Pointwise error estimates for mixed finite element methods for quasilinear second order elliptic partial differential equations (Purdue University, 1986)
Miyoung Lee: Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-701, South Korea.
  • Thesis: The mixed finite element method for strongly nonlinear elliptic problems: The h-p version (Purdue University, 1995)
Maia Martcheva: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, 358 Little Hall, P.O.Box 118105, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8105.
  • Thesis: An age structured two-sex population model (Purdue University, 1998)
Daniel Maxin: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Gellersen Hall 134, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 46383.
  • Thesis: The interplay of isolation from reproduction with demography and sexually transmitted diseases (Purdue University, 2007)
Eun-Jae Park: Professor, Department of Mathematics, Yonsei University, Seoul, 120-749 South Korea.
  • Thesis: On mixed finite element methods for non-linear second order elliptic problems (Purdue University, 1993)
Curtis A. Patton: Scientist, Epic Systems Corporation, 1979 Milky Way, Verona, WI 53593.
  • Thesis: Mathematical models of a host-parasite system in a marine environment (Purdue University, 1998)
Guglielmo Rabbiolo: Deceased June 2004.
  • Thesis: Definition of the limits of predictability of the dynamics of vibro-acoustic systems (Purdue University, 1998)
Laurentiu Sega: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Allgood Hall N320, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA 30904.
  • Thesis: The interaction between immunology and epidemiology (Purdue University, 2011)
Kai Yang: Consultant, Terra Technology, 20 Glover Ave, Norwalk, CT 06850.
  • Thesis: The logistic, two-sex, age-structured population model with births outside marriage (Purdue University, 2008)
Ruijun Zhao: Post Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, 305 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2107.
  • Thesis: Some Mathematical Models and Scientific Computations in Epidemiology (Purdue University, 2008)

Former PhD Co-Advisees

Elisabetta Ferrando (co-advisor with G. Harel)
  • Thesis: Abductive processes in conjecturing and proving (Purdue University, 2005)
Cheng-Che Li (co-advisor with Z. Feng): Assistant Professor, General Education Center, St. John's University, #499, Sec. 4, Tam-King Rd., Tam-Shui, Taipei County, 251, Taiwan.
  • Thesis: Mathematical modeling of schistosomiasis (Purdue University, 2002)
Mark D. Ward (co-advisor with W. Szpankowski) Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, 150 North University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067.
  • Thesis: Analysis of an error resilient Lempel-Ziv algorithm via suffix trees (Purdue University, 2005)
Lih-Ing Wu Roeger (co-advisor with Z. Feng) Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lubbock, TX 79409-1042.
  • Thesis: On bifurcations of codimension greater than two arising from a childhood disease model (Purdue University, 2000)

Last Updated: July 26, 2011