mentoring

UMass Amherst

graduate students

• William Dugan (PhD)

• Jesse Selover (PhD)

• Sooa Song (PhD)

Former postdocs

• Theo Douvropoulos (now postdoc at Brandeis University)

• Laura Colmenarejo (now Assistant Professor at North Carolina State)

Former graduate students

• GaYee Park (postdoc at LaCIM, UQAM)

undergraduate and high school students

• REU Summer 2023: José Cruz (UMass)

• REU Summer 2022: Pablo Castilla, Isaac MacArthur (UMass)

• REU Summer 2021 Lee-Sip: Maura Hegarty (UMass),  Generalized Pitman-Stanley polytopes: vertices and faces, (joint with William T. Dugan, and Annie Raymond)

• Honors college: Sunita Bhattacharya (UMass)

• REU Summer 2020: Peter Cassels (UMass)

• PRIMES USA mentor 2020: William Shi, Refinements of product formulas for volumes of flow polytopes

• Jessica Mejía Carvajal, Universidad del Norte, undergraduate thesis 2019.

• REU Summer 2019: Max Liu (Mt. Holyoke)

• PRIMES USA mentor 2018: Daniel Zhu (MIT, Montgomery Blair high school); On the Okounkov-Olshanski formula for standard tableaux of skew shapes, outstanding posters, MAA poster session 2019 joint meetings, Daniel won a 2019 Davidson Fellowship, and was a 2019 Regeneron STS scholar.

• Honors college: Stefan Grosser 2018;  Counting linear extensions of posets with determinants of hook lengths, (joint with Alexander Garver, and Jacob Matherne);  outstanding posters, MAA poster session 2019 joint meetings  

• REU Summer 2018:  Yike (Wilson) Wang;  outstanding posters, MAA poster session 2019 joint meetings  

UCLA

• RIPS mentor, IPAM, (project by AMD): Side-Channel Leakage and Countermeasure Characterization with Mutual Information 2016, the team was in the list of outstanding posters, MAA poster session 2017 joint meetings.

• RIPS mentor, IPAM, (project by Symantec): Efficient Routing for Scale-out Data Architecture Using Incremental Set Cover Proceedings 2016 IEEE MASCOTS, London, 424-429, IEEE:Xplore, arxiv:1606.08884, 2015

• mentor summer research Jason O'Neill, UCLA: On the poset and asymptotics of Tesler matrices, Electronic J. of Combinatorics, Vol. 25 (2018) #P2.4; Jason was in the list of outstanding posters, MAA poster session 2016 joint meetings, 2015, 2016

UQAM

• mentor summer research: Herman Goulet-Ouellet, UQAM: Rook placements on South-West permutation diagrams, 2014

MIT

• SPUR mentor: Max Wimberley, MIT: Towards a q-analogue of the Harer-Zagier formula, Max earned outstanding presentation award, MAA poster session 2013 joint meetings, 2012

• PRIMES mentor: Aaron Klein, Brookline high school: matrices over finite fields and rook placements, 2011