AMSC Alumni Profiles

David Russell

David Russell '24

Position: Visiting Assistant Research Scientist at UMD’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)
Thesis: A Data Assimilation System for Lake Erie Based on the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter
Advisor: Kayo Ide
Application Area: Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
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Jinpeng Liu

Jinpeng Liu '22

Position: Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow at Simons Institute and UC Berkeley
Thesis: Quantum algorithms for linear and nonlinear differential equations
Advisor: Andrew Childs
Application Area: Quantum Computing
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Martin Molina

Martin Molina-Fructuoso '20

Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Brandeis University
Thesis: Regularity of Optimal Transportation Plans for Rough Measures
Advisor: Antoine Mellet, Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin
Application Area: Fluid Mechanics
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Tengfei Su

Tengfei Su '19

Position: Quantitative Associate at Wells Fargo
Thesis: Low-Rank Solution Methods for Discrete Parametrized PDEs
Advisor: Howard Elman
Application Area: Computational Fluid Dynamics
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Stefan Doboszczak

Stefan Doboszczak '16

Position: ORISE Postdoc, Air Force Institute of Technology
Thesis: Navier-Stokes-Smoluchowski system over moving domains
Advisor: Konstantina Trivisa
Application Area: Fluid Mechanics
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Alex Liu

Viktoria Taroudaki '15

Position: Associate Professor, Eastern Washington University
Thesis: Image Estimation and Uncertainty Quantification
Advisor: Dianne P. O’Leary
Application Area:  Scientific Computing – Image Processing
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Alex Liu

Alex Liu '15

Position: Data Scientist, Netflix
Thesis: Statistical Analysis of Online Eye and Face-Tracking Applications in Marketing
Advisor: Dr. Michel Wedel
Application Area: Applied Statistics
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Virginia Forstall

Virginia Forstall '15

Position: Operations Research Scientist at Leidos
Thesis: Iterative Solution Methods for Reduced-Order Models
Advisor: Howard Elman
Application Area: Computational Fluid Dynamics
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Joseph Paulson

Joseph Paulson '15

Position: Statistical Scientist, Genentech
Thesis: Metagenomic biomarker-gene surveys
Advisors: Mihai Pop, Héctor Corrada Bravo
Application Area: Genomics
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Aaron Lott

Aaron Lott '08

Position: Postdoc, NIST
Thesis: Fast Solvers for Models of Fluid Flow
Advisor: Howard Elman
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Elana Fertig

Elana Fertig '07

Position: Director, Institute for Genome Sciences
Thesis: Assimilating Satellite Observations
Advisor: Brian Hunt
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Joseph Paulson

John Harlim '06

Position: Professor of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University
Thesis: Errors in the Initial Conditions for Numerical Weather Prediction: A Study of Error Growth Patterns and Error Reduction with Ensemble Filtering
Advisors: Brian Hunt
Application Area: Atmospheric Sciences
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Christopher Danforth

Christopher Danforth '06

Position: Assistant Professor, University of Vermont
Thesis: Forecasts for Chaotic Processes
Advisors: James Yorke, Eugenia Kalnay
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Weiran Sun

Weiran Sun '06

Position: Postdoc, University of Chicago
Thesis: Mathematical Problems Connecting Kinetic to Fluid Regimes
Advisor: Charles Levermore
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Sharon Crook

Sharon Crook '96

Position: Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Thesis: Oscillatory Models of Olfactory Cortex
Advisor: Laveen Kanal
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Keith Hermiz

Keith B. Hermiz '96

Position: Business Analytics Researcher, IBM Research
Thesis: Rayleigh-Bernard Convection Driven Shear
Advisor: James Alexander
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