Ph.D. Alumni, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

2024

Michael Gottstein, Fall 2017
BS 2017, College Misericordia
MA 2019, SUNY At Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2024, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Partitions and Gain Graphs
Placement: Assistant Professor at Marywood University

Shiyi Ma, Fall 2019
BA 2017, University of Rochester
MS 2018, Northwestern University
Ph.D. Summer 2024, Professor Michael Dobbins
Dissertation: Continuity of Curve Shortening Flow and Enumeration of Nerves

Sayak Sengupta, Fall 2016
BS 2013, Calcutta University
MS 2015, Calcutta University
Ph.D. Spring 2024, Professor Alexander Borisov and Professor Adrian Vasiu
Dissertation: Iteration of Polynomials over Integers

Zhou Wang, Fall 2017
BS 2017, Zhejiang Gongshang University
MA 2019, SUNY At BInghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2024, Professor Xingye Qiao
Dissertation: Set-valued Classification and Conformal Prediction in Out-of-distribution Detection and Bandit Feedback Settings
Placement: Tik Tok, Machine Learning Engineer

Zengyan Zhang, Fall 2023
MS 2017, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ph.D. Summer 2024, Professor Jia Zhao
Dissertation: Numerical Approximations and Model Order Reduction for Phase Field Equations with Application in Cellular Dynamics
Placement: Postdoctoral scholar, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Dept. of Mathematics

2023

Pat Carney, Fall 2011
Ph.D. Spring 2023, Professor Alexander Borisov
Dissertation: Application of the Theory of Farey Fractions to the Combinatorics of Some Compactifications of the Affine Plane

Nicholas Lacasse, Fall 2016
BS 2016, University of Maine At Farmington
MA 2018, SUNY At Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2023, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Signed Graphs & Gain Graphs:Packing, Root Systems,Alcoves & Arrangements
Placement: Assistant Professor, Husson University, Bangor, Maine

Sarah Lamoureux, Fall 2016
BA 2015, University of Vermont & State Agricultrual College
MA 2018, SUNY At Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 2023, Professor Adrian Vasiu
Dissertation: Arithmetic Differential Operators on Compact DVRs

2022

Olakunle Abawonse, Fall 2015
BS 2012, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
MA 2017, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2022, Professor Laura Anderson
Dissertation: On the topology of flags of oriented matroids & spaces of flattenings of spheres
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Northeastern University, Boston, and now at African Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Ulysses Alvarez, Fall 2015
BS 2015, California State Univ Fullerton
MA 2017, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2022, Professor Laura Anderson and Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: On the topology of corank 1 tropical phased matroids
Placement: Postdoc and now Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama

Joshua Carey, Fall 2015
BA 2015, Marywood University
MA 2017, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2022, Professor Alex Feingold
Dissertation: Branching rule decomposition of the level-1 $E_8^{(1)}$-module with respect to the irregular subalgebra $F_4^{(1)} \oplus G_2^{(1)}$

Mengyu Chen, Fall 2017
BS 2015, Ningbo University, China
MS 2017, Middle Tennessee State University
Ph.D. Spring 2022, Professor Anton Schick
Dissertation: An Empirical Likelihood Approach with Bivariate Data
Placement: Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo

Zachary Costanzo, Fall 2016
BA 2016, Providence College
MA 2018, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2022, Professor Hung Tong-Viet
Dissertation: Fields of values of characters of finite groups
Placement: Saint Raphael Academy, Pawtucket, RI

Jonathan Doane, Fall 2017
BA 2015, SUNY Potsdam
MS 2017, Syracuse University
Ph.D. Summer 2022, Professor Fernando Guzman
Dissertation: Boolean twice monoids
Placement: Manager, Curriculum & Instruction at AI4ALL

Christopher Eppolito, Fall 2014
BA 2014, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
MS 2016, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2022, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky and Professor Laura Anderson
Dissertation: Matroids: Mystic Monoliths, Meta Missiles, and Myopic Meadows
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, The University of the South

Shaofei Zhao, Fall 2016
BS 2013, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
MA 2018, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2022, Professor Guifang Fu
Dissertation: Theory and application about variable selection approaches for high dimensional genomic data
Placement: Senior Statistician, AbbVie

2021

Kexuan Li, Fall 2016
BS 2016, Sun Yat-sen University
MA 2018, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2021, Professor Aleksey Polunchenko
Dissertation: On the Characteristics of the Generalized Shiryaev-Roberts Procedure for Quickest Change-Point Detection in Continuous Time
Placement: Postdoc, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Now Principal Biostatistician at Biogen Inc.

Wangshu Tu, Fall 2016
BA 2015, Beijing Normal University
MA Statistics 2018, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2021, Professor Sanjeena Dang
Dissertation: Model-based clustering approaches for microbiome data
Placement: Postdoc, School of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University

2020

Yinsong Chen, Fall 2015
BA 2008, Capital Normal University
MS 2011, Capital Normal University
Ph.D. Spring 2020, Professor Vladislav Kargin
Dissertation: Counting and Sampling Ribbon Tilings of Rectangles
Placement: Data Scientist, the Walt Disney Company

Charles (Matt) Evans, Fall 2014
BA 2008, Berry College
MA 2013, Temple University
Ph.D. Summer 2020, Professor Fernando Guzman
Dissertation: Spectral Properties of Commutative BCK-Algebras

Yuan Fang, Fall 2015
BS 2014, University of Waterloo, Canada
MA 2016, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2020, Professor Sanjeena Dang
Dissertation: Model-based Clustering Approaches For Non-Gaussian Data
Placement: Postdoctoral Associate, School of Public Health, Boston University. Current, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Binghamton University

Amelia Mattern, Fall 2015
BA 2012, Hamilton College
MS 2015, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Ph.D. Spring 2020, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Deficiency in Signed Graphs

Haomiao Meng, Fall 2015
BA 2013, Central Univ of Finance and Economics, China
MS 2015, University of California, Davis
Ph.D. Spring 2020, Professor Xingye Qiao
Dissertation: Machine Learning Methods on Selected Topics of Precision Medicine
Placement: Applied Scientist, Amazon.com

Theodore Ofner, Fall 2013
BS 2013, Indiana University Bloomington
MA 2015, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2020, Professor Pedro Ontaneda
Dissertation: Warped Product Constructions Relating to Graphs of Groups

2019

Kyle Bayes, Fall 2014
BA 2014, Wright State University
MA 2016, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2019, Professor Pedro Ontaneda
Dissertation: Index Theorem for Closed Geodesics
Placement: Software Engineer, Google

Joseph Cyr, Fall 2014
BA 2012, Providence College
MA 2014, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Ph.D. Summer 2019, Professor Fernando Guzman
Dissertation: Subdirectly Irreducible Binary Modes

Chen Liang, Fall 2014
BS 2013, Wuhan University, China
MS 2016, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Fall 2019, Professor Xingye Qiao and Professor Ganggang Xu
Dissertation: Goodness-of-fit Tests for Spatial Cluster Point Process Models
Placement: Research Scientist, Amazon.com

Kunal Sharma, Fall 2011
BS 2008, Sadar Patel University, India
MA 2013, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2019, Professor Paul Loya
Dissertation: Adiabatic Limit of Calderon Projector on Manifold with Cylindrical End
Placement: Principal AI & ML Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Wenbo Wang, Fall 2014
BS 2014, Fudan University, China
MA 2016, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2019, Professor Xingye Qiao
Dissertation: Set-Valued Classification Via Confidence Set Learning
Placement: Applied Scientist, Amazon.com

Lin Yao, Fall 2013
BS 2011, Dalian University of Technology, China
MS 2013, Dalian University of Technology, China
Ph.D. Spring 2019, Professor Xingye Qiao and Professor Ganggang Xu
Dissertation: James-Stein-Type Optimal Weight Choice for Frequentist Model Average Estimator
Placement: Upstart.com, Data Scientist

Changwei Zhou, Fall 2012
BA 2012, Bard College
MA 2014, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2019, Professor Alexander Borisov
Dissertation: Some Results on Arakelov Theory of Arithmetic Surfaces

2018

Richard Behr, Fall 2012
BA 2011, Binghamton University
MA 2014, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2018, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Edge Coloring and Special Edges of Signed Graphs
Placement: Adjunct Lecturer, Binghamton University

Eran Crockett, Fall 2012
BA 2011, SUNY New Paltz
MA 2014, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2018, Professor Fernando Guzman
Dissertation: On a Class of Nilpotent Algebras

Junyi Dong, Fall 2013
BS 2012, Quinnipiac University
MA 2015, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2018, Professor Qiqing Yu
Dissertation: Marginal Distribution Method for Checking Regression Model Assumption
Placement: Assistant Professor, St. Ambrose University

Xiaojie Du, Fall 2012
BS 2012, Nankai University
MA 2012, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2018, Professor Anton Schick
Dissertation: Inference in Linear Regression with Symmetric Errors: An Empirical Likelihood Approach
Placement: Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo. Currently, Machine Learning Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Binbin Huang, Fall 2013
BS 2011, South China University of Technology
MA 2011, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2018, Professor Paul Loya
Dissertation: On a Pseudodifferential Calculus with Modest Boundary Condition
Placement: Assistant Professor, Messiah College

Ruiqi Liu, Fall 2013
BS 2013, Sun Yat-sen University
MA 2015, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2018, Professor Anton Schick
Dissertation: Identification and estimation in panel models with over specified number of groups
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University

Patrick Milano, Fall 2011
BS 2011, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
MA 2013, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2018, Professor Alexander Borisov
Dissertation: Mixed Ghost Space

Rachel Skipper, Fall 2011
BS 2011, Frostburg State University
MA 2013, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2018, Professor Marcin Mazur
Dissertation: On a generalization of the Hanoi towers group
Placement: Postdoc, ENS de Lyon / Göttingen University. Currently, Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Ting Su, Fall 2012
BA 2012, University of Science & Technology of China
MA 2014, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Fall 2018, Professor Laura Anderson
Dissertation: Extensions of Matroids Over Tracts and Doubly Distributive Partial Hyperfields
Placement: Postdoc, Hamburg University

Adam Weisblatt, Fall 2010
BS 2004, SUNY Cortland
MS 2006, Lehigh University
Ph.D. Spring 2018, Professor Paul Loya
Dissertation: Geometric techniques for Laplace and Dirac Operators
Placement: Lecturer, Binghamton University

2017

Jeremy Hauze, Fall 2009
BA 2009, King's College
MA 2011, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Fall 2017, Professor Matthew G. Brin
Dissertation: Restrictions on potential automatic structures on Thompson's group F
Placement: Managing Partner and Content Creator, OverBoredGaming

Simon Joyce, Fall 2007
BS 2006, National University of Ireland
MS 2007, National University of Ireland
Ph.D. Fall 2017, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Interaction Graphs Derived From Activation Functions and Their Application to Gene Regulation

Andrew Kelley, Fall 2011
BA 2011, Colorado State University
MA 2013, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2017, Professor Marcin Mazur
Dissertation: Maximal subgroup growth of some groups
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Colorado College

Alexander Schaefer, Fall 2011
BS 2006, Michigan Technological University
MS/MA 2008/2011, Michigan Technological University & University of Kansas
Ph.D. Summer 2017, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Permutable Matchings and Negative Cycle Vectors
Placement: Lecturer, University of Kansas

Amanda Taylor, Fall 2007
BA 2006, University of Maine at Farmington
MA 2009, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2017, Professor Matthew G. Brin
Dissertation: Locally solvable subgroups of PLo(I)
Placement: Assistant Professor and now Associate Professor, Alfred University

2016

Nan Bi, Fall 2009
BS 2007, Sun Yat-sen University
MA 2011, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Fall 2016, Professor Anton Schick
Dissertation: Empirical Likelihood for a Class of Semiparametric Regression Models

Mauricio Bustamante, Fall 2011
BS 2008, Universidad de Antioquoia
MPS 2011, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Ph.D. Spring 2016, Professor Thomas Farrell and Professor Pedro Ontaneda
Dissertation: On the topology of the space of pinched negatively curved metrics with finite volume and identical ends
Placement: Postdoc, Tsinghua University. Now Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica de Chile

Qinggang Diao, Fall 2009
BS 2008, Shandong University
MA 2009, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2016, Professor Qiqing Yu
Dissertation: Cox Proportional Hazards Model with Time-Dependent Covariates
Placement: Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo. Currently, Applied Scientist, Amazon.com

Diego Penta, Fall 2010
BS 1996, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS 2010, Rutgers University
Ph.D. Spring 2016, Professor Alex Feingold
Dissertation: Decomposition of the Rank 3 Kac-Moody Lie Algebra F with Respect to the Rank 2 Hyperbolic Subalgebra Fib
Placement: Lecturer, Ohio State University. Currently, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Yilin Zhu, Fall 2011
BS 2011, Nankai University
MA 2013, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2016, Professor Anton Schick
Dissertation: Estimation of the Error Distribution in a Varying Coefficient Regression Model
Placement: Statistician, Ford Motor Company

2015

Ding Ding, Fall 2006
BS 2006, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
MA 2008, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Fall 2015, Professor Adrian Vasiu
Dissertation: Canonical Barsotti - Tate Groups of Level m
Placement: Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Binghamton University

Wenyu Du, Fall 2010
BA 2010, Dalian University of Technology
MA 2012, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2015, Professor Aleksey Polunchenko
Dissertation: Accurate and efficient numerical performance evaluation of the Generalized Shiryaev-Roberts procedure for quickest change-point detection.
Placement: Research Scientist, Amazon.com

Jinghao Li, Fall 2007
BS 2007, Fudan University
MA 2010, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2015, Professor Adrian Vasiu
Dissertation: Purity Results on F-crystals
Placement: Developer, Sequoia Capital Global Equities in Menlo Park, CA

Qiyi Lu, Fall 2010
BA 2010, Fudan University
MA 2012, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Fall 2015, Professor Xingye Qiao
Dissertation: Learning Partially Labeled Data in the High-dimensional, Low-sample Size Setting
Placement: Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo

Gangotryi Sorcar, Fall 2009
BS 2007, Jadavpur University
MS 2008, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Ph.D. Spring 2015, Professor Thomas Farrell
Dissertation: Non Triviality of the Fundamental Group of the Teichmuler Space of Negatively Curved Metrics of a Non-Locally Symmetric Negatively Curved Manifold
Placement: Ross Assistant Professor, Ohio State University. Now Assistant Professor, Krea University

2014

Ryan McCulloch, Fall 2007
BA 2007, King's College
MA 2009, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2014, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: The Chermak-Delgado Lattice of Finite Groups
Placement: Visiting Professor, SUNY Oswego

Slobodan Tanusevski, Fall 2007
BS 2007, St. Cyril and Methodius University
MA 2009, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Fall 2014, Professor Marcin Mazur
Dissertation: Generalized Thompson Groups
Placement: Associate Professor, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Xiaolei Wu, Fall 2010
BS 2007, SMS, Peking University, China
MS 2010, SMS Beijing Normal University, China
Ph.D. Spring 2014, Professor Thomas Farrell
Dissertation: Farrell-Jones Conjecture for the Solvable Baumslag-Solitar Groups
Placement: Postdoc, Institut für Mathematik. Currently, Associate Professor, Fudan University.

2013

Fatima Jaafari, Fall 2006
BS 2005, University of Texas at Tyler
MA 2008, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2013, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: Adaptive Method for Estimating The Mean of a Finite Population
Placement: Risk Analyst II, JP Morgan Chase

Jackie Kaminski, Fall 2005
BS 2005, Xavier University
MA 2008, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2013, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Classification of Factored Gain-Graphic Hyperplane Arrangements
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Juniata College. Currently, Associate Teaching Professor, Pennsylvania State University Altoona

Christopher Mauriello, Fall 2007
BS 2007, University of Texas at San Antonio
MA 2009, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2013, Professor Alex Feingold
Dissertation: Branching Rule Decomposition of Irreducible Level-1 E₆⁽¹⁾-modules with respect to F₄⁽¹⁾
Placement: Adjunct Instructor, Northampton Community College

Barry Minemyer, Fall 2007
BS 2007, Penn State Altoona Campus
MA 2009, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2013, Professor Pedro Ontaneda
Dissertation: Isometric Embeddings of Polyhedra
Placement: Ross Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University. Currently, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Commonwealth University (formerly Bloomsburg University)

Adam Perry, Fall 2003
BS 2002, Binghamton University
MA 2008, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2013, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: Modular subgroups and related transitive algebraic relations in direct products of finite groups.
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor and now Lecturer, Christopher Newport University

Amanda Ruiz, Fall 2009
BA , University California Berkeley
MA 2009, San Francisco State University
Ph.D. Summer 2013, Professor Laura Anderson
Dissertation: Realization Spaces of Phased Matroids
Placement: Postdoc, Harvey Mudd College. Currently, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of San Diego

Yifan Xu, Fall 2007
BS 2007, Zhejiang University, China
MA 2008, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2013, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: On First Crossing Times of Mixed Compound Poisson Processes Under Various Boundary Conditions with Applications in Queuing and Risk Theories
Placement: Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University Department of Epidemiology and Statistics. Currently, AI Scientist, Meta

Can Zhang, Fall 2008
BS 2007, Sun Yat-sen University
MA 2010, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2013, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: Two-Stage and Sequential Procedures for the Behrens-Fisher Problem

2012

Adriano DeOliveira, Spring 2006
BS 2001, Univ Federal De Sergipe Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil
MS 2003, Univ Federal De Pernambuco Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Ph.D. Spring 2012, Professor Pedro Ontaneda
Dissertation: A Geometric Version of the Twisted Nil-Groups
Placement: Assistant Professor, Federal de Sergipe (Federal University of Sergipe), Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil

Dina Haner, Fall 2008
BS 2005, Mansfield University
MA 2010, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2012, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: On Two-Stage and Three-Stage Sampling Procedures for Fixed-Width Interval Estimation of the Common Variance of Correlated Normal Random Variables
Placement: Mathematical/Statistical Engineer II, Corning Incorporated

Martha Kilpack, Fall 2007
BS 2005, Utah State Universtiy
MA 2007, CUNY Hunter College
Ph.D. Spring 2012, Professor Fernando Guzman
Dissertation: The Lattice of Closure Operators and the Algebraic Lattice of Algebraic Closure Operators
Placement: Lecturer, SUNY Oneonta. Currently at the National Security Agency

Jiahui Li, Fall 2006
BS 2006, Zhejiang Normal University - Jinhua Zhejiang China
MA 2008, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2012, Professor Qiqing Yu
Dissertation: Nonparametric Estimation with Right-Censored and Masked Competing Risks Data
Placement: Postdoc Biostatistician, Janssen Research & Development, LLC. Currently, Biostatistician, Celgene Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Quincy Loney, Fall 2005
BA 2001, SUNY Potsdam
MA 2003, SUNY Potsdam
Ph.D. Summer 2012, Professor Alex Feingold
Dissertation: Decomposition of Level-1 Representations of D₄⁽¹⁾ With Respect to its Subalgebra G₂⁽¹⁾ in the Spinor Construction
Placement: Lecturer, Cornell University

Nathan Reff, Fall 2008
BS 2006, Rochester Institute of Technology
MS 2007, Rochester Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Spring 2012, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Gain Graphs, Group-Oriented Hypergraphs, and Matrices
Placement: Assistant Professor, Alfred University

Cristina Salviano, Spring 2006
BS 1999, Univ Est De Feira De Santana Feira De Santana, Bahia Brazil
MS 2003, Univ Federal De Pernambuco Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Ph.D. Spring 2012, Professor Pedro Ontaneda
Dissertation: The Index Space of a Geodesic
Placement: Assistant Professor, Federal de Sergipe (Federal University of Sergipe), Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil

2011

Yu-Ting Hsu, Fall 2005
BS 2002, Tamkang University, Taipei Taiwan
MA 2005, Queens College - CUNY
Ph.D. Spring 2011, Professor Qiqing Yu
Dissertation: Statistical Analysis of Firm Interdependence Using Duration Data
Placement: Assistant Professor, Penn State Harrisburg. Currently, Pianist, Yuting Piano Studio

Dandrielle Lewis, Fall 2006
BS 2001, Winston Salem State University
MS 2006, University of Iowa
Ph.D. Spring 2011, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: Containment of subgroups in a direct product of groups
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin at Eau-Claire. Currently, Associate Professor, Prairie View A&M University

Xiao Xiao, Fall 2005
BS 2005, Zhejiang University, China
MA 2007, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2011, Professor Adrian Vasiu
Dissertation: Invariants of F-crystals
Placement: Assistant Professor, Utica College

2010

Keith Jones, Fall 2004
BS 2003, Rochester Institute of Technology
MA 2006, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2010, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: Controlled Connectivity for Cocompact Isometric Actions on Simplicial Trees
Placement: Visiting Asst. Prof., Trinity College. Currently, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, SUNY Oneonta

Gina Kucinski, Fall 2000
BS 2000, University of Scranton
MA 2004, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2010, Professor Fernando Guzman
Dissertation: Duality for the Algebra of Conditional Logic
Placement: Visiting Asst. Prof., University of Scranton

Lucas Rusnak, Spring 2002
BS 2001, SUNY Binghamton
MA 2003, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2010, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Oriented Hypergraphs
Placement: Lecturer and now Associate Professor, Texas State University

Viji Thomas, Fall 2005
BE 2001, Maharaj Sayajirao University
MS 2005, Wichita State University
Ph.D. Summer 2010, Professor Fernando Guzman and Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: The Box-Tensor Product: A Generlization of the Nonabelian Tensor Product
Placement: Postdoc, Tata Institute. Currently, Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Engineering and Research at Trivandrum, India.

Elizabeth Wilcox, Fall 2006
BA 2002, Carleton College
MS 2006, University of Vermont
Ph.D. Spring 2010, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: Complete Finite Frobenius Groups and Wreath Products
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University. Currently, Associate Professor, State University of New York at Oswego

Peng Zhang, Fall 2004
BS 2002, Nanjing University
MA 2006, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Fall 2010, Professor Anton Schick
Dissertation: Prediction in heteroskedastic autoregressive models

2009

Garry Bowlin, Fall 2003
BS 2003, Clarkson University
MA 2005, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2009, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Maximum Frustration of Bipartite Signed Graphs
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, LeMoyne College. Currently, Software Developer, Epic

Ilir Snopce, Spring 2005
BA 2004, Saint, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
MA 2005, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 2009, Professor Marcin Mazur
Dissertation: Lie Methods on Pro-p Groups
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Jiaping Wang, Fall 2004
BS 2003, SUNY Binghamton
MA 2006, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 2009, Professor Qiqing Yu
Dissertation: The Generalized MLE with the Censored and Masked Competing Risks Data
Placement: Postdoc, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Biostatistics Department

2008

Leandro Junes, Fall 2002
BS 1998, Universidad de Antioquia
Ph.D. summer 2008, Professor Laura Anderson
Dissertation: Duality of Higher Order Non-Euclidean Property for Oriented Matroids
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina Sumter

Silvia Millan-Vossler, Fall 2001
BA 1994, University Puebla, Mexico
MA 2002, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2008, Professor Thomas Farrell
Dissertation: The Whitehead Group and the Lower Algebraic K-Theory of Braid Groups on S2 and RP2

Seshendra Pallekonda, Fall 2001
B.Tech 2000, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Univeristy
MA 2001, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2008, Professor Erik Kjær Pedersen
Dissertation: Bounded Category of an Exact Category
Placement: Assistant Professor, Kings College

Peggy Sullivan, Fall 1984/1997
BS 1977, Louisiana State University
MS 1979, Louisiana State University
Ph.D. Summer 2008, Professor Dennis Pixton
Dissertation: DNA Computing with Cutting, Pasting, Filtering and Washing

Nigar Tuncer, Fall 2002
BS 1998, Bogaziçi University
MA 2004, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2008, Professor Patricia McAuley
Dissertation: Globalization Theorems in Topology

Bronlyn Wassink, Fall 2002
BA 2001, SUNY Geneseo
MA 2005, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2008, Professor Matthew G. Brin
Dissertation: Subgroups of R. Thompson's Group F that are Isomorphic to F
Placement: Assistant Professor, Utica College. Currently, Broad College of Business, Michigan State University

2007

Risto Atanasov, Fall 2000
BS 1993, Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics (Skopje, Macedonia)
MS 1998, Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics (Skopje, Macedonia)
Ph.D. Summer 2007, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: Groups of Geometric Dimension 2
Placement: Assistant Professor and now Professor, Western Carolina University

Cuixian Chen, Fall 2001
BS 1998, Sun Yat-sen University
MS & MA 2001 & 200, Sun Yat-sen University & SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2007, Professor Qiqing Yu
Dissertation: Asymptotic Properties of the Buckley-James Estimator for a Bivariate Interval Censorship Regression Model
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor and now Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Jichang Du, Fall 2003
BS 1988, Wuhan University
MS 2002, University of Toledo
Ph.D. Fall 2007, Professor Anton Schick
Dissertation: Covariate-matched estimator of the error variance in nonparametric regression
Placement: Biostatistician, GlaxoSmithKline

Tom Klein, Fall 1999
BA 1999, Loras College
Ph.D. Spring 2007, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: Filtered ends of pairs of groups
Placement: Britton Post-Doctoral Fellowship, McMaster University

John Loftus, Fall 2000
BA 1984, Ithaca College
MS 1997, Wilkes University
Ph.D. Summer 2007, Professor Tom Head
Dissertation: Powers of Words in Language Families

Gabriela Mendoza, Fall 2002
Spring 2002, SUNY Binghamton
Spring 2004, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2007, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: On some minimality conditions involving elements of prime order in a group G
Placement: Assistant Professor, and now Professor, Riverside Community College (Riverside, CA)

2006

Olga Salazar-Diaz, Spring 2001
BS 1996, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
MS 1999, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Ph.D. Spring 2006, Professor Matthew G. Brin
Dissertation: Thompson's Group V From A Dynamical Viewpoint
Placement: Assistant Professor and now Associate Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Joseph Smith, Fall 2000
BS 2000, Kings College
MA 2004, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2006, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: Groups whose normalizers form a chain
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Burmingham Southern

Yishi Wang, Fall 2001
BS 1998, University of Science & Technology Beijing
MS 2001, Sun Yat-sen University
Ph.D. Spring 2006, Professor Miguel Arcones
Dissertation: Some New Tests for Normality
Placement: Assistant Professor and now Professor, Western Carolina University

2005

Collin Bleak, Fall 1991
BA 1991, Princeton University
MA 1993, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2005, Professor Matthew G. Brin
Dissertation: Solvability in Groups of Piecewise Linear Homeomorphisms of the Unit Interval
Placement: Postdoc, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Currently, Reader (equiv. to Associate Professor), St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Rigoberto Florez, Fall 2000
MA 1995, Universidad de Antioquia Medillin
MS 1999, Universidad Nacional Medillin
Ph.D. Summer 2005, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Four Studies in the Geometry of Biased Graphs
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina at Sumter. Currently, Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, the Citadel

Fanhui Kong, Spring 2001
BS 1993, Northeast Normal University, China
MS 1996, Northeast Normal University, China
Ph.D. Summer 2005, Professor Qiqing Yu
Dissertation: Asymptotic Distributions of Buckley-James Estimator
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor and now Professor, Wilkes University

Joshua Palmatier, Fall 1999
BS 1994, Penn State University
MA 1996, Penn State University
Ph.D. Spring 2005, Professor Fernando Guzman
Dissertation: M-Zeroids: Structure and Categorical Equivalences
Placement: Assistant Professor, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

2004

Marlo Brown, Fall 1999
BA 1996, SUNY Buffalo
MA 1998, SUNY Buffalo
Ph.D. Spring 2004, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: Detection of Change-Points in Categorical Data
Placement: Assistant Professor, Niagara University

Lori Koban, Fall 1997
BS 1997, Eastern Nazarene College
MA 1999, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Summer 2004, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Two Generalizations of Biased Graph Theory: Circuit Signatures and Modular Triples of Matroids, and Biased Expansions of Biased Graphs
Placement: Western Carolina University. Currently, Professor, University of Maine Farmington

Nicholas Koban, Fall 1998
BS 1997, Bloomsburg University
MA 2000, Binghamton University
Ph.D. Spring 2004, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: Controlled Topology Invariants of Translation Actions
Placement: Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University. Currently, Professor, University of Maine Farmington

Omar Saldarriaga, Fall 1998
BA 1997, Universidad de Antioquia
MA 2000, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2004, Professor Alex Feingold
Dissertation: Fusion Algebras, Symmetric Polynomials, Orbits of Elementary N-Groups, and Rank-Level Duality
Placement: William Patterson University

Ron Sperber, Fall 1993
BS 1992, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MA 1995, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 2004, Professor Erik Kjær Pedersen
Dissertation: A Comparison of Assembly Maps in Algebraic K-Theory
Placement: Assistant Professor, Keuka College

2003

John Donnelly, Fall 1996
BA 1996, SUNY Albany
MA 1998, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2003, Professor Matthew G. Brin
Dissertation: Properties of Richard Thompson's group F related to amenability
Placement: Assistant Professor, Lafayette College. Currently, Professor, University of Southern Indiana

Ivonne Ortiz, Fall 1996
BS 1996, University of Antioquia
MA 1998, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2003, Professor Thomas Farrell
Dissertation: The Lower Algebraic K-theory of Gamma_3
Placement: Assistant Professor, Miami University at Ohio

Joe Petrillo, Fall 1998
BS 1998, Wilkes University
MA 2000, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2003, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: The Cover-Avoidance Property in Finite Groups
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College. Currently, Professor, Alfred University

Xueqin Wang, Fall 1999
BS 1997, Nankai University
MA 2001, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2003, Professor Qiqing Yu
Dissertation: The Properties of the Theil-Sen Estimator
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi. Currently, Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

2002

Dan Clouse, Fall 1993
BA 1993, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1996, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2002, Professor Fernando Guzman
Dissertation: A Dual Representation of Boolean Semirings In a Category of Structured Topological Spaces
Placement: National Security Agency

Gary Greenfield, Fall 1993
BA 1985, Calvin College
MA 1991, University of California at Barkeley
Ph.D. Fall 2002, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: Variance Estimation After Using the Chow-Robbins Stopping Rule to Determine a Fixed Width Confidence Interval For the Mean of a Normal DistributionFall

Matthew Haner, Fall 1997
BS 1995, Elmira College
MA 1991, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2002, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: Random Designs in Factorial Experiments For Estimation And Searching
Placement: Assistant Professor, Mansfield University

David H. Rosenthal, Fall 1996
BS 1996, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1998, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2002, Professor Erik Kjær Pedersen
Dissertation: Splitting With Continuous Control In Algebraic K-Theory
Placement: Postdoc, McMaster University

Steven Tedford, Fall 1997
BA 1997, Marist College
MA 1999, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2002, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: A Characterization of the Mixed Branching Greedoid
Placement: Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College

2001

John Best, Fall 1992
BS 1980, King's College
MS 1984, Syracuse University
Ph.D. Fall 2001, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: On 3/2-Transitive Groups
Placement: Part-Time Asst. Prof., Syracuse University

Jeffrey Forrester, Fall 1993
BA 1992, Alfred University
MA 1996, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2001, Professor Anton Schick
Dissertation: Efficient Estimation of the Regression Parameter in a Heteroscedastic Regression Model Where Heteroscedasticity is Modeled as a function of the mean response
Placement: BAE Systems. Currently, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Analytics, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

Daniel Ghezzi, Fall 1996
BS 1978, Pennsylvania State University
MA 1998, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2001, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: Estimation of and confidence intervals for the common variance of correlated normal random variables
Placement: Assistant Professor, Kings College

William Hooper, Fall 1994
BA 1994, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1996, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2001, Professor Anton Schick
Dissertation: Efficient Estimation of Transformation Parameters in Nonparametric Regression
Placement: Assistant Professor, Clarkson University. Currently, Statistician at Church & Dwight, Co., Inc.

Fred Kluempen, Fall 1996
BA 1994, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1997, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2001, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: On the power structure of finite p-groups
Placement: Assessment Specialist I, and now Supervisor of Assessment Services, Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Hanxiang Peng, Fall 1996
Diploma (equivalent to MA) 1987, Peking University
Ph.D. Summer 2001, Professor Anton Schick
Dissertation: Efficient Estimation of Linear Functionals of a Bivariate Probability with Equal Marginals
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi. Currently, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University Indianapolis

Dirk Schuetz, Fall 1997
Diploma 1997, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
MA 1999, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2001, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: Torsion properties of the Novikov complex
Placement: Postdoc, University College, Dublin, England

2000

Sergio Ardanza-Trevijano, Fall 1995
BS 1994, University of Zaragoza
MA 1997, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2000, Professor Thomas Farrell
Dissertation: Exotic Smooth Structures on Non-Locally Symetric Negatively Curved Manifolds
Placement: Still seeking employment

Joseph Evan, Fall 1995
BA 1995, King's College
MA 1997, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2000, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: Permutability in Direct Products of Finite Groups
Placement: Assistant Professor, and now Professor, Provost, and Vice President for Academic Affairs, King's College (Pennsylvania)

Daniel Farley, Fall 1994
BS 1994, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1996, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 2000, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: Finiteness and CAT(0) Properties of Diagram Groups
Placement: Penn State (main campus - 3 year post doc position)

Daniel Slilaty, Fall 1993
BS 1994, SUNY Binghamton
MS 1997, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2000, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Orientations of Biased Graphs and Their Matroids
Placement: George Washington University, Visiting Asst. Professor

Joanna Su, Fall 1994
BS 1989, uan University, Taiwan, Republic of China
MS 1994, Northern Arizona University
Ph.D. Spring 2000, Professor Peter Hilton
Dissertation: Homotopy Theory of Modules
Placement: Assistant Professor, Providence College

Zoran Sunik, Spring 1996
BS 1991, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
MS 1995, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
Ph.D. Summer 2000, Professor Fernando Guzman
Dissertation: On a Class of Periodic Spinal Groups of Intermediate Growth
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Shaohua Yu, Fall 1995
BA 1995, SUNY Potsdam
MA 1997, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 2000, Professor Qiqing Yu
Dissertation: Consistency of GMLE with Multivariate Mixed IC Data

1999

James Beuerle, Fall 1993
BS 1993, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1995, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1999, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: Metacyclic Groups and their Nonabelian Tensor Squares
Placement: Assistant Professor, Ursinus College. Currently, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Elon University NC

Elizabeth Laun, Fall 1992
BS 1989, SUNY Albany
MA 1994, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 1999, Professor Tom Head and Professor Dennis Pixton
Dissertation: Constants and Splicing Systems
Placement: University of Delaware

1998

Steve Pagano, Fall 1990
BS 1989, SUNY Fredonia
MA 1992, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1998, Professor Thomas Zaslavsky
Dissertation: Separability and Representability of Bias Matroids of Signed Graphs
Placement: University of Kentucky

Denise Reboli, Fall 1992
BA 1992, Drew University
MA 1994, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1998, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: On Generalized Hamiltonian Groups
Placement: Assistant Professor, and now Professor, King's College

Ranja Roy, Fall 1993
BS 1986, University of Calcutta
MS 1988, Jadabpur University
Ph.D. Spring 1998, Professor Thomas Farrell
Dissertation: Integrality Questions for Virtual Signature
Placement: Instructor, Millersville University, Millersville, PA

Norhaniza Sarmin, Spring 19??
BA 1989, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1990, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1998, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: On Two-Generator Groups of Nilpotency Class Two and their Nonabelian Tensor Squares
Placement: Lecturer, and now Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Matthew Visscher, Fall 1990
BS 1990, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1992, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 1998, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: On the Nonabelian Tensor Product of Groups
Placement: Systems Administrator and Software Developer at Lewis Info Tech. Now Computer Systems Manager and Director of the New York City Department of Finance.

Arthur Weinberger, Fall 1991
BS 1991, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1993, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1998, Professor Tom Head
Dissertation: Reducing Fuzzy Algebra to Classical Algebra
Placement: Senior Software Design Engineer, Lockheed Martin

Qinhai Zhang, Spring 1996
BA NA, NA
MS 1988, Southwest China Normal University
Ph.D. Spring 1998, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: On Abnormal Subgroups of Finite Groups
Placement: Professor, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, Shanxi, China

1997

Manuel Cardenas, Spring 1992
BS equivalent 1990, University of Sevilla
MA 1993, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 1997, Professor Erik Kjær Pedersen
Dissertation: Localization For Exact Categories
Placement: Assistant, University of Sevilla

Elizabeth Gumustop, Fall 1992
BA 1991, The College of Wooster
MA 1994, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1997, Professor Fernando Guzman
Dissertation: Varieties of Codes and Codifiable Varieties of Monoids
Placement: Lecturer, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Thomas Kimber, Fall 1990
BA 1989, SUNY Potsdam
MA 1992, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1997, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: System Permutability in Finite Solvable Groups
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, James Madison University

Karl Lorensen, Fall 1992
BS 1989, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1994, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1997, Professor Peter Hilton
Dissertation: Local-Global Principles for Nilpotent Group Extensions
Placement: Assistant Professor, Eastern Mediterranean University

Douglas Mennella, Fall 1991
BS 1991, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1993, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1997, Professor Erik Kjær Pedersen
Dissertation: A Comparison of Steenrod Homology Theories
Placement: Assistant Professor, SUNY College at Oswego

Tom Plavchak, Fall 1978
BS 1975, Penn State University
MA 1981, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 1997, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: A Polyhedral Transversality Theorem For One-Parameter Fixed Point Theory

Patrick Ratchford, Fall 1991
BSE 1988, Mansfield University
MA 1993, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1997, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: On Centralizer-like Subgroups
Placement: Assistant Professor, Ithaca College

Shashidhar Upadhyay, Fall 1993
BA 1990, Allahabad University
MA 1995, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1997, Professor Thomas Farrell
Dissertation: Bounding Questions for Almost Flat Manifolds
Placement: Software Developer, Bloomberg LLP

Xiaodong Wang, Fall 1992
BS 1983, Anhui Normal University
MA 1995, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1997, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: Contribution to Dynamical Systems
Placement: Statistician, ACER/EXCEL

1996

Francisco Fernandez-Lasheras, Fall 1991
BS equivalent 1990, University of Sevilla
MA 1993, SUNY - Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 1996, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: Fake surfaces, thickenings and cohomology of groups
Placement: Assistant, University of Sevilla

1995

James Babb, Fall 1986
BS 1980, Cornell University
MA 1989, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 1995, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: Estimating Change Points in Linear and Non-Linear Time Series
Placement: Research Associate, Fox Chase Cancer CTR

Victor Brunsden, Fall 1990
BS 1982, University of N.S.W., Sydney, Australia
MS 1989, Cornell University
Ph.D. Summer 1995, Professor Thomas Farrell
Dissertation: Cohomology, Local Rigidity, and Fixed Points
Placement: Assistant Professor, Penn State University, Altoona, PA

Matthew Fisher, Spring 1990
BS 1984, SUNY Binghamton
MA 1988, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. January 1995, Professor Wolfgang Kappe
Dissertation: Two-groups with a Self-centralizing element
Placement: Firmware Engineer, Quantum

David Garrison, Spring 1988
BS 1984, SUNY Fredonia
MA 1989, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. May 1995, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: Subnormality Conditions in Metabelian Groups
Placement: Staff Engineer, Loral Federal Systems, and then Lockheed Martin, Owego, NY; now, retired

David Harris, Fall 1985
BS 1985, Binghamton University
MA 1987, Binghamton University
Ph.D. May 1995, Professor Dennis Pixton
Dissertation: The Mapping Class Group of a Rotation Domain

Mile Krajcevski, Fall 1987
BS (equivalent) 1979, University of Skopje, Macedonia.
Teaching career 1979-87, Macedonia
Ph.D. January 1995, Professor Ross Geoghegan and Professor Craig Squier
Dissertation: Tilings of the plane, and hyperbolic groups.
Placement: University of South Florida

Elizabeth Lamprecht, Fall 1990
BS 1985, SUNY-Buffalo
MS 1990, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. January 1995, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: A Bernoulli One-Armed Bandit Problem Involving a Changepoint
Placement: Assistant Professor, Adrian College

Gary Raduns, Fall 1988
BA 1986, Houghton College
MA 1990, SUNY Binghamton
Ph.D. May 1995, Professor Radu Zaharopol
Dissertation: Erogodic Decompositions and Sweeping in Riesz Spaces
Placement: Instructor, Manchester College, North Manchester, IN

1994

Boris Okun, Fall 1990
BA 1986, Moscow State University
MS 19xx, none
Ph.D. Fall 1994, Professor Thomas Farrell
Dissertation: Non-zero degree tangential maps between dual symmetric spaces
Placement: Instructor, Ohio State University

Mike Weiner, Fall 1988
BS 1988, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MA 1990, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1994, Professor Alex Feingold
Dissertation: Bosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody Algebras
Placement: Assistant Professor, Penn State University, Altoona, PA

1993

Marc Brodie, Fall 1983
BA 1983, Ithaca College
MA 1985, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1993, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: Finite Coverings by Subgroups
Placement: Assistant Professor, College of St. Benedict. Currently, Professor, Benedictine University at Mesa, AZ.

John Harrison, Fall 1987
BS 1987, Wilkes College
MA 1989, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1993, Professor Tom Head
Dissertation: The Dynamics of Piecewise Endomorphisms of Finitely Generated Free Monoids
Placement: Assistant Professor, Wilkes College

Natasa Jonoska, Fall 1988
BS (equivalent) 1984, Macedonia
Teaching career 1984-88, Macedonia
Ph.D. 1993, Professor Tom Head
Dissertation: Synchronizing Representations of Sofic Subshifts
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of South Florida

Jeffrey Scott Reitz, Fall 1984
BS 1984, The Pennsylvania State University
MA 1986, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1993, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: An Approximation to the Bayes Estimate of a Time-Varying Parameter Vector
Placement: University of Alabama, Walker College, Jaspar, AL.

1992

Michael Bacon, Fall 1984
BS 1984, St. John Fisher College
MA 1986, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 1992, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: The Nonabelian Tensor Square and Powers of a Group
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Platteville

Gang Li, Fall 1987
BS 1980, Sichuan University, Chengdu
MS 1984, Sichuan University, Chengdu
Ph.D. Fall 1992, Professor David Hanson
Dissertation: Almost Sure Convergence of Stochastic Approximation Procedures
Placement: Senior Statistician, Ohmeda Inc., Liberty Corna, NJ.

Heather Ries, Fall 1986
BA 1986, Bates College
MA 1988, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1992, Professor Peter Hilton
Dissertation: Torsionfree Abelian Groups Which Are Almost Finitely-Generated
Placement: Assistant Professor, East Carolina University

Christopher Schuck, Fall 1986
BS 1986, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1988, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 1992, Professor Peter Hilton
Dissertation: Some Contributions to the Study of Nilpotent Groups
Placement: Self-employed industrial consultant.

Leonard VanWyk, Fall 1987
BA 1980, SUNY Potsdam
MA 1983, UC Berkeley
Ph.D. Fall 1992, Professor Craig Squier
Dissertation: Graph Groups are Biautomatic
Placement: James Madison University

1991

Theresa Engel, Fall 1988
BS 1984, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
MA 1986, University of Kentucky
Ph.D. Spring 1991, Professor Steve Ferry
Dissertation: Deformation and Rigidity Along Paths of Manifolds
Placement: Associate Professor, Ithaca College

Robert R. Militello, Fall 1989
BS 1986, State University of New York Cortland
MS 1989, Purdue University
Ph.D. 1991, Professor Peter Hilton
Dissertation: On the Cayley-Hamilton Property in Groups
Placement: Assistant Professor, Rhodes College

1990

Robert F. Morse, Fall 1983
BS 1982, The Pennsylvania State University
MA 1985, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. 1990, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: Levi Properties in Groups
Placement: Loral Corporation (formerly IBM Federal Systems Division), Owego NY. Currently, Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Evansville, Evansville IN.

George F. Yeh, Fall 1984
BA 1982, Inner Mongolia University
MA 1985, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1990, Professor Benjamin Brewster
Dissertation: Subclasses of M-Groups

1989

Maiwei Chen, Fall 1983
BA 1983, SUNY College at Cortland
MA 1985, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1989, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: Contributions to Estimation Theory of LLPD Time Series

Randall Holmes, Fall 1983
BS 1983, SUNY College at Cortland
MA 1985, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. July 1989, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Systems of Combinatory Logic Related to Quine's "New Foundations"

1988

Marian Baumler, Fall 1980
BA 1965, Catholic University of America
MS 1973, University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. June 1988, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: Dose Escalation Themes for Phase I Clinical Trials for Discrete Observations

Benzion Boukai, Fall 1984
BA 1982, Haifa University
MA 1984, Haifa University
Ph.D. Spring 1988, Professor Shelemyahu Zacks
Dissertation: On the Change-Point Problem and Related Topics

Jeff Norden, Fall 1981
BS 1981, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1984, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Summer 1988, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Homeomorphisms Between Pixley-Roy Spaces

Norman Spier, Fall 1981
BS 1978, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1980, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1988, Professor V. Susarla
Dissertation: Some Large Sample Linear and General Regression Results Under Variable Censoring

1987

Robert Chamberlain, Fall 1981
BS 1980, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MA 1983, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1987, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: Groups With Certain Finite Homomorphic Images Cyclic

John Kulesza, Fall 1978
BS 1978, Bucknell University
MA 1981, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. May 1987, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Dimension Theory of non-separable metric spaces

Andrea Nadel, Fall 1980
BS 1980, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1982, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1987, Professor V. Susarla
Dissertation: Weighted Least Squares Regression with Censored Data

Daniel Normolle, Fall 1977
BS 1977, Wilkes College
MA 1979, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. August 1987, Professor Eugene Klimko
Dissertation: Comparing the Performance of Classification Methods

1985

Robert Johnson, Fall 1974
BS 1974, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
MA/MS 1976/78, SUNY-Binghamton/Southern Methodist Univ.
Ph.D. May 1985, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Uniform Inverse Set Convergence and Inverse Limits

Michael Kelly, Fall 1975
BS 1975, State University College - Cortland
MA 1977, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. May 1985, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: Minimizing the Number of Fixed Points for Self-Maps of Compact Surfaces

Russ Miller, Spring 1981
BS 1980, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1982, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1985, Professor Quentin Stout
Dissertation: Pyramid Computer Algorithms

Abraham Wender, Summer 1981
BS 1974, Tel-Aviv University
MS 1978, Tel-Aviv University
Ph.D. Spring 1985, Professor David Hanson
Dissertation: Types of Equilibria for Non-Deterministic Economies

1984

L. Brian Lawrence, Fall 1976
BA 1976, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1984, Professor Prabir Roy
Dissertation: General Product Spaces

1983

Donco Dimovski, Fall 1980
BS 1976, University of Skopje
MS 1979, University of Skopje
Ph.D. Spring 1983, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: Non-Simply Connected Casson Handles

Seyedkazem Mahdavianary, Fall 1978
BA 1976, Faculty of Engineering of Tehran University
MA 1980, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. August 1983, Professor Luise-Charlotte Kappe
Dissertation: Groups with many subgroups two-subnormal
Placement: Assistant Professor, SUNY Potsdam. Currently, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Tyler.

Ronald Menton, Fall 1977
BS 1977, Bates College
MS 1979, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1983, Professor John Orban
Dissertation: A Population Model for Linear Calibration

1982

John Kavanagh, Fall 1973
AB 1973, Boston College
MA 1975, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. May 1982, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Extensions of Homeomorphisms and Generalizations

1981

Richard Barshinger, Fall 1975
BS 1966, Lebanon Valley College
MA 1970, Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. January 1981, Professor James Geer
Dissertation: Uniform Asymsptotic Expansions for Solutions to Electrostatic, Ideal Flow, and Stokes Flow Problems Exterior to Thin Oblate Body of Revolution

Deborah Brigham, Fall 1975
BA 1975, SUNY-Potsdam
MA 1977, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. January 1981, Professor Eugene Klimko
Dissertation: Discrete Discriminant Analysis Using Log-Linear Models

Timothy Masters, Fall 1975
BA 1975, SUNY Oswego
MA 1977, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. January 1981, Professor Eugene Klimko
Dissertation: Automated Classification of Aerial Photographs

David Mauro, Fall 1976
BS 1976, Bates College
MA 1978, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Fall 1981, Professor Eugene Klimko
Dissertation: Consistency of Kaplan Meier Least Squares Estimators

Gary O'Brien, Fall 1976
BS 1972, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1978, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1981, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: The Missing Boundary Problem for Smooth Manifolds of Dimension Greater Than or Equal to Six

Gene Sprechini, Fall 1975
BS 1974, Wilkes College
MA 1977, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. January 1981, Professor Eugene Klimko
Dissertation: Testing for Robustness of Certain F-Tests in the General Linear Model

1980

Alan Coppola, Fall 1972
BA 1973, University of Connecticut
MA 1974, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1980, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: On p-Adic Transformation Groups

Ralph Russo, Fall 1974
BA 1974, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1976, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1980, Professor David Hanson
Dissertation: A Stochastic Approximation Procedure

1979

William Cody, Fall 1972
BS 1972, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1974, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1979, Professor Wolfgang Kappe
Dissertation: On the Structure of the Hughes Subgroup

Michael Mihalik, Fall 1975
BA 1973, California State College
MA 1977, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1979, Professor Ross Geoghegan
Dissertation: Ends of Fundamental Groups in Shape and Proper Homotopy

1978

Gerald Jungck, Fall 1969
BA 1956, Wartburg College
MA 1959, University of Wisconsin
Ph.D. May 1978, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Local Homeomorphisms

1977

Steve Dibner, Fall 1972
BA 1972, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1973, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1977, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Heegaard Splittings for an Infinite Family of Closed Orientable Three-Manifolds

Hari Mukerjee, Fall 1974
BE 1954, University of Calcutta
PHD-Physics 1967, University of Missouri-Columbia
Ph.D. Spring 1977, Professor David Hanson
Dissertation: Stochastic Approximations Using Isotonic Regression

Patricia Woodworth, Fall 1968
BA 1968, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1970, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1977, Professor David Klarner
Dissertation: An Analytic Approach to Problems Connected with Plane Tree Enumeration

1976

Diane Schmidt, Fall 1971
BA 1965, Cornell University
MA 1969, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1976, Professor Dick Wick Hall
Dissertation: The Bing Sphere Characterization and Applications of Brick Partitionings

1975

Ronald Fintushel, Fall 1972
AB 1967, Columbia University
MA 1969, University of Illinois
Ph.D. Spring 1975, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Orbit Maps of Local S1-Actions on Manifolds of Dimension Less Than Five

Richard Gustafson, Fall 1966
BSE 1959, Arkansas State Techers College
MA 1964, University of Tennessee
Ph.D. Spring 1975, Professor Prabir Roy
Dissertation: Construction Algorithms for Knot Spaces Which Contain Incompressible Surfaces of Arbitrarily High Genus

Eric Robinson, Fall 1969
BA 1969, SUNY-Binghamton
MA 1971, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1975, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Characterizations and Properties of Some Light-Open Mappings

1974

Michael Boyd, Fall 1966
BS 1965, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
MA 1969, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1974, Professor William Transue
Dissertation: Properties of Ultraproduct Spaces

John Walsh, Fall 1970
MS 1970, Case Western Reserve University
Ph.D. Spring 1974, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Monotone, Monotone Open, and Light Open Mappings of Manifolds

1973

John Ying, Fall 1968
BS 1967, Cheng Kung University
MA 1970, SUNY-Binghamton
Ph.D. Spring 1973, Professor Wolfgang Kappe
Dissertation: Relations Between Subgroups and Quotient Groups of Finite Groups

1972

Carl Pixley, Fall 1968
BA 1966, University of Omaha
MS 1968, Rutgers-The State University
Ph.D. Summer 1972, Professor Prabir Roy
Dissertation: Selection Theory for Infinite Dimensional Spaces and Continuous Single-Valued Approximations to Upper Semi-Continuous Multivalued Mappings

Robert Reed, Fall 1970
BS 1955, Columbia University
MA 1959, Columbia University
Ph.D. Spring 1972, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Foundations of Vietoris Homology Theory with Applications to Non-Compact Spaces

1971

John Baildon, Fall 1969
BS 1965, Lafayette College
MS 1967, Rutgers - The State University
Ph.D. Spring 1971, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Open Maps and Maps Onto Two-Manifolds

Myra Reed, Fall 1970
BA 1956, University of Michigan
MA 1958, University of Michigan
Ph.D. Spring 1971, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Decomposition Spaces and Separation Properties

Edythe Woodruff, Fall 1970
BS 1948, University of Rochester
MS 1952, University of Rochester
Ph.D. Spring 1971, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Concerning the Condition that a Disk in E3/G be the Image of a Disk in E3

1970

William Haver, Fall 1969
BS 1964, Bates College
MA 1967, Rutgers University
Ph.D. August 1970, Professor Louis F. McAuley
Dissertation: Cellular Mappings on Manifolds