The Mathematical Descendants of Doron Zeilberger
Last Update: Nov. 19, 2022
Ph.D. Students
- Sheldon Parnes, Temple, 1993;
linkedin page
Senior Software Engineer at ANSYS; formely: Mentor Graphics.
- Ethan Lewis, Penn, 1994; for many years:IBM, Israel; currently: Adjunct Professor, Arcadia University.
- Craig Orr, Temple, 1994 ,NSA.
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John Majewicz
, Temple, 1997 ;
Comm. College of Phila. 1997-2009; Florida Keys Community College, 2009-2013;
Penn State at Abington, Aug. 2013- .
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John Noonan,
Temple, 1997; Mt. Vernon Nazarene College, OH.
- Tewodros Amdeberhan,
Temple, 1997; deVry Inst. of Tech., NJ (1997-2005), DIMACS (2001-), Tulane (2005-).
MIT(visiting, 2007-2008). [Tewodros's page at MIT].
Currently: Senior Professor of Practice, Tulane University Mathematics Department.
- Melkamu Zeleke,
Temple, 1998; William Patterson Univ., Wayne, NJ.
Currently: Professor of Mathematics. Department Chair (2004-2010).
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Aaron Robertson, Temple, 1999; Colgate Univ., Hamilton, NY.
Currently: Professor and Chair of Mathematics, Colgate University.
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Akalu Tefara,
Temple, 2000; Grand Valley State Univ., MI (2000-); visited MIT (2006-2007).
Currently: Professor of Mathematics.
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Anne Edlin , Temple, 2000;
linkedin page; Cecil College, formerly Lasalle;
Currently: Professor of Mathematics, Cecil College.
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Xinyu Sun, Temple,
defended his
thesis in
Spring 2004; Texas A&M (2004-2007), Tulane(2007-2009), Xavier(2009-2012), High-tech industry(2012-).
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Xiangdong Wen, Temple, 2005 ; Wolfram demos page;
Wolfram Research.
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Vince Vatter , Rutgers.
Defended his
thesis on Nov. 17, 2005.
St. Andrews (2005-2007) ;Awarded
an NSF posdoc at MIT, but declined, to be a quantitative
analyst at
D.E. Shaw (2007-2007), only to realize that greedy math is not for him.
Vince then became John Wesley Young research instructor at Darthmouth
(2008-2010). In the Spring of 2010, Vince has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Florida, (2010-).
Tenured Associate Professor (2014-). Currently: Professor (2020-.)
Thanks to Vince, I now have numerous grandchildren, and via
Robert Brignall, even two great-grandsons,
David Bevan and
Jakub Sliacan, and
David Marchant
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Moa Apagodu, Rutgers, 2006;Virginia Commonwealth University.
Currently: Associate Professor of Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Lara Pudwell
, Rutgers.
Lara defended her
thesis on April 7, 2008.
Valparaiso Univ., (Indiana), tenure-track Asst. Prof. (Aug. 2008-2014).
Tenured Associate Professor (2014-2021).
Aug. 2021- Tenured Full Professor. Here is
Lara Pudwell's Professorial Lecture .
Lara Pudwell got, in 2007,
the School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education as a Teaching Assistant
(See here).
In 2014 Lara got the
MAA Adler award.
In 2021, Lara got the Excellence in Teaching award
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Thotsaporn Aek Thanatipanonda, Rutgers. Aek defended his
thesis on
Aug. 25, 2008. Visiting Asst. Prof. at Dickinson College (2008-2009),
free-lance mathematician and Chess player in Thailand (2009-), Postdoctoral Fellow at RISC-Linz (2010-2011).
Currently: Senior Lecturer, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Thailand, 2014-
(see here).
Thotsaporn Aek Thanatipanonda got, in 2008,
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research from the Graduate School
(See here).
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Arvind Ayyer, Rutgers (Physics, joint with Joel Lebowtiz).
Arvind defended his
thesis on
Sept. 25, 2008. Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Physique Théorique, Saclay, France
(2008-2010), Krener Asst. Prof., UC Davis(2010-2013);
Indian Institute of Sci., Bangalore: Asst. Prof. of Mathematics (2013-2018);
Currently (2018-): Assoc. Prof. of Mathematics .
Added Feb. 5, 2021: Arvind just became an academic father of Dipankar Roy and Subhajit Ghos, see
here
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Eric Rowland,
Rutgers .
Eric defended his
thesis on
April 2, 2009. VIGRE Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University,
(2009-2011); Postdoctoral position, UQAM (2011-2014).
Marie Curie Actions COFUND postdoctoral fellow, University of Liege (2014-2016).
Assistant professor, Hofstra University (2016-2020).
Currently (2021): Associate Professor, Hostra University.
[Added April 15, 2021: Eric is the
2021 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award presented by the Metropolitan New York Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)]
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Paul Raff, [linkedin]
Rutgers.
Paul defended
(here are the slides)
his
thesis
on Aug. 14, 2009.
Currently: Staff Data Scientist, Reddit.Previously:
Principal Data Scientist at Aetna (Apr. 2020- Oct. 2021)
Research Fellow, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers (2009-2010),
Member of R&D team, amazon.com (in Seattle) (2010-2012), Applied Researcher,
Bing Data Mining team, Microsoft (2012-Jan.2014), Senior Applied Researcher at Bing Data Mining team,
Microsoft (Feb.2014-Sept. 2015). Principal Data Scientist Lead at Microsoft (Aug. 2018-Apr. 2020)
Paul Raff got, in 2008,
the School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education as a Teaching Assistant
(See here).
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Emilie (b. Hogan) Purvine Rutgers .
Emilie defended
(here is the movie: part 1,
part 2,
)
her
thesis
on April 7, 2011. Currently: Principal Investigator.
Formerly: Computational Mathematics Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2012-2015;
Postdoctoral Research Associate at PNNL (Aug. 2011-Nov. 2012).
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Andrew Baxter, Rutgers.
Andrew defended
(here is the novie:
part 1,
part 2)
his thesis
on April 14, 2011.
Currently: Associate Teaching Professor of Mathematics, 2018-;
Previously: Lecturer of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University,2011-2018.
Also Pennsylvania Mathematics Initiative Workshop Director. 2012-.
Andrew Baxter got, in 2009,
the School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education as a Teaching Assistant
(See here).
Added May 18, 2019: Andrew Baxter won the prestigious
Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching
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Brian Nakamura, Rutgers.
Brian defended
(here is the movie:
part 1,
part 2)
his
thesis
on March 28, 2013;
here are the
slides.
Currently (2021-): Google.
Peviously: Postdoctoral associate CCICADA, (July 2013-2015)], private industry, New York City.
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Kellen Myers, Rutgers.
Kellen defended
(here is the movie:
part 1,
part 2) his
thesis
on April 6, 2015.
Currently: Assistant Professor, Tusculum University, Tennessee.
Formerly: Tenure-track assistant professor, SUNY Farmingdale, 2015-2016;
Research Fellow, Univesity of Tennessee, 2016-2020.
Kellen Myers got, in 2015,
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student from the Graduate School
(See here).
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Matthew Russell, Rutgers, (co-advised by Vladimir Retakh, and also interacted with James Lepowsky).
Matthew defended
(here is the movie:
vimeo:part 1,part 2
youtube: part 1,part 2
) his
thesis
on April 7, 2016.
Current position: Lecturer, Univesity of Illinios, Urbana-Champaig (2022-)
(Before that: Teaching Instructor of Mathematics (2016-2018), Teaching Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University (2018-2021)).
Matthew Russell got an
2016 award for distinguished contributions to undergraduate education.
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Nathaniel Shar,Rutgers,
Nathaniel defended
(here is the movie: vimeo:part 1,part 2
youtube:
part 1,part 2)
his thesis
on March 31, 2016. Google, June 2016-.
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Nathan Fox,
defended
(here is the movie:
vimeo:part 1,part 2
youtube:
part 1,part 2)
)
his thesis
[Here are the slides ]
on March 31, 2016. Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Wooster, Ohio (Sept. 2017-2020).
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Canisius College (2020-).
[old page]
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Anthony Zaleski
defended his thesis on March 29, 2018
(here is the movie: vimeo: part 1,part 2)
[Here are the slides ]
Current affiliation (Aug. 2018-): Blueshift Asset Management.
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Bryan Ek
defended his thesis on March 29, 2018
(here is the movie: vimeo: part 1,part 2)
[Here are the slides ];
Current affiliation (July 2018-): SPAWAR, Charleston, SC .
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Andrew Lohr
defended his thesis on April 5, 2018.
(here is the movie: vimeo: part 1,part 2)
[Here are the slides ]
Current affiliation (July 2018-): Microsoft, Redmond, WA.
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Richard Voepel, Rutgers, [fulfilled all the requirements for a PhD, including the research for the thesis,
(
see this paper and
this paper)
but decided to withdraw without defending]
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Yukun Yao [姚宇坤] , Rutgers,
defended
his thesis on March 17, 2020.
[slides].
Currently: Goldman Sachs, NY, (2020-)
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Yonah Biers-Ariel, Rutgers,
defended
his thesis on March 24, 2020.
[slides].
linkedin.
Currently: Quantitative Trader, Jane Street, NY. (2020-)
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Mingjia Yang [杨明佳]
defended her
thesis
on March 24, 2020.
[slides]
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Robert Dougerty-Bliss, current student.
[Robert's brilliant post]
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Alison "AJ" Bu, current student.
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George Spahn, current student.
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Blair Seidler, current student.
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Lucy Martinez, current student.
Masters Students
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Trevor Bass, Rutgers
[defended his
master's thesis
on June 6, 2005.]
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David John Wilson, Rutgers
[defended
(here is the movie: part 1,
part 2]
his
master's thesis (an exposition of the future!) on April 21, 2011.
PhD University of Bath, UK, 2014 ]
[Read also
report].)
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Aron Samkoff, Rutgers
[defended his
master's thesis
on April 13, 2015. See also Maple code
]
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Ha Luu, Rutgers
[defended her
master's thesis
on Dec. 10, 2015.
See also first Maple code
and
second Maple code].
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Emily Kukura, Rutgers
[defended her
master's thesis
on April 10, 2017.
[Here are her slides.]
See also Maple code (and some sample input and output files)
in this directory]
Postdoctoral Mentees
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Andrew Sills (2003-2007), currently Full Professor of mathematics, Georgia Southern University
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Debbie Yuster (2007-2009,co-mentored with Fred Roberts)
currently, Ramapo College of New Jersey.
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Luis Medina (2008-2010), currently Full Professor of mathematics, Univerity of Puerto-Rico.
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Jonathan Bloom (2014-2015). Currently: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of mathematics, Lafayette College .
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Amita Malik (2017-2020). Currently: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of mathematics, Penn State University.
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Stoyan Dimitrov (2022-).
Added July 3, 2020: Here are screenshots of the participants in Dr. Z.'s 70th surprise birthday party (taken by Yukun Yao)
pic1
pic2 . mesiba passwd: C35 .
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