People
Faculty
Boyce Griffith
Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Physical Sciences
Associate Chair for Research, Department of Mathematics
Member, Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Computational Medicine Program, and McAllister Heart Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Curriculum Vitae (updated October 8, 2018)
Citations (Google Scholar)
PhD, Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 2005
BS, Computer Science, Rice University, 2000
BA, Computational and Applied Mathematics and Mathematics, Rice University, 2000
Research Scientist
David Wells
PhD, Mathematics, Virginia Tech, 2015
MS, Applied Mathematics, Virginia Tech, 2013
BS, Applied Mathematics, Virginia Tech, 2011
BS, Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2011
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Qi Sun
PhD, Mathematics, University of Houston, 2022
MS, Applied Mathematics, University of Houston, 2018
BS, Computational Mathematics, University of Jinan, 2015
Graduate Students
Laryssa Abdala
PhD student, Department of Mathematics
Bryn Barker
PhD student, Department of Mathematics
Marshall Davey
PhD student, Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Michael Facci
PhD student, Department of Mathematics
Kirsten Giesbrecht
PhD student, Department of Mathematics
Cole Gruninger
PhD student, Department of Mathematics
Charles Talbot
PhD student, Department of Mathematics
Edward Terrell
PhD student, Department of Mathematics
Alumni
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Simone Rossi, 2016-2022
First position: 3D Software Engineer, Align Technology, Inc.
Ebrahim (Amin) Kolahdouz, 2015-2021
First position: Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation
Saad Qadeer, 2018-2020
First position: Distinguished Fellow in Computational Mathematics, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Charles Puelz, 2017-2018
First position: Courant Instructor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Present: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Baylor College of Medicine
Amneet Bhalla, 2014-2016
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Present: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University
Vittoria Flamini, 2011-2014
First position: Industry Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Present: Industry Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Jordan Fisher, 2011-2012
First position: Project Manager, U.S. Security and Exchange Commission
Present: Founder and CEO, Standard Cognition
Paul Hand, 2009-2010
First position: Instructor, Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Present: Assistant Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northeastern University
Graduate Students
Jordan Brown
PhD, Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2023
First position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Belmont University
Keon Kim
PhD, Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2023
First position: Peter O’Donnell, Jr., Postdoctoral Fellow, Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Robert Hunt (jointly advised by R. Camassa and R.M. McLaughlin)
PhD, Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2021
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Engineering, Brown University
Benjamin Vadala-Roth
PhD, Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2020
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory
Fuhui Fang (jointly advised by M. G. Forest)
PhD, Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2020
First position: Microsoft
Jae Ho (Mike) Lee
PhD, Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2020
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Yanni Lai
PhD, Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2019
First position: Amazon
Aaron Barrett
PhD, Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2019
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
Donald Duo Zhao (jointly advised by J. F. Prins)
MS, Computer Science and Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2015
First position: Google
Undergraduate Students
Thomas Whitehead, 2019-2020
BS, Mathematics and Statistics and Analytics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2020 (honor thesis advisee)
First position: PhD student, Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University
Ryan Armstrong, 2019-2020
BS, Physics and Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2020 (honor thesis advisee)
First position: Epic Systems
Marc Rovner, 2018-2019
BS, Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Analytics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2019
First position: LexisNexis
Raveena Kshatriya, 2017-2018
BA, Computer Science and Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2018
First position: AIG
Elijah DeLee, 2016-2018
BS, Applied Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2018 (honors thesis advisee)
First position: RedHat, Inc.
Ali Hasan, 2015-2017
BS, Applied Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2017 (honors thesis advisee)
First position: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Skyler Jones, 2014-2016
BS, Mathematics and BA, Communication Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2017
First position: MD student, University of Alabama School of Medicine
Visiting Faculty
Dan Yang, 2019-2020
Associate Professor, School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Visiting Graduate Students
Jianhua Qin, 2019-2020
PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Research Rotation Students
Mikaela Pabon, 2019
BS student, Department of Physics, University of West Florida
Michael Chambers, 2017-2018
MD student, UNC School of Medicine