Graduate students

Graduate student photo gallery.

Read about our graduate students below...

Elham Ahmadi

Tyler Barker

Erin Beyerstedt

I am originally from Wisconsin which is where I did my undergraduate work. I graduated from Carthage College in 2003 with majors in mathematics & biology and minors in religion & business. I spent the following year teaching math at a private high school. From 2004-2006 I attended Western Washington University and earned my master's degree in mathematics. In the fall of 2006 I began work here at Tulane in the PhD program, supported by a VIGRE fellowship. This is now my fifth year and I am working with Victor Moll, focusing on combinatorics. In my spare time I enjoy going to the gym, pottery, exploring the city, dancing, listening to live music, sampling the amazing food found in nola, traveling, and spending time with friends.

Peter Bierhorst

I am originally from New York City.  I graduated from Harvard in 2004 with a degree in Mathematics.  After graduation, I worked in politics for a while, then tutored math for a living, living in New York City and then in Portland, OR.  Eventually it became clear that I missed learning math and hated cold weather, so I moved south and started here at Tulane in Fall 2008.  My mathematical interests include Probability and Topology.  I enjoy a New Orleans staple, the fried shrimp po-boy sandwich, and am a fan of New Orleans style piano.

Beau Bourgeois

I am from Schriever, which is about an hour southwest of New Orleans. I graduated from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux,LA in 2008 with a major in computer science and minor in mathematics. I continued at Nicholls for the next year working on an MBA one semester and a Masters in mathematics the next. After teaching a course that first semester, I decided I wanted a PhD, which is how I wound up at Tulane. In my spare time I enjoy hunting, fishing, sports, watching the Saints win, and drinking beer with friends.

Jeme Brelin

Jason Calmes

I grew up in a small town near Hammond, La, not far from New Orleans. I attended Southeastern Louisiana University, where I received a B.S. Mathematics, a B.S. in Physics, and a B.A. in English. Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at Tulane University where I have received a M.S. in Mathematics and am pursuing a M.S. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Mathematics. I am studying orbispaces and their homology and cohomology with Dr. Terry Lawson and Dr. Weimin Chen. I am supported by a Board of Regents Fellowship and have been an instructor in both Calculus and Probability & Statistics. In my meager spare time, I maintain my domain (http://www.overmen.net/), play and record music (guitar, bass), read sci-fi, fantasy, and philosophy, and keep up with my favorite TV shows and football (God's favorite sport).

Patrick Corbin

Shumo Cui

Jeremy Dewar

Feng Du

Johnny Feng

Marian Hernandez-Viera

Franz Hoffmann

Jianjun Huang

Shanshan Jiang

Kelley Johnson

Karen Kohl

Originally from Pass Christian, MS, just an hour away the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I spent 14 years in Boston before returning in 2006. I graduated from MIT in 1996 in applied math with a minor in linguistics and then worked in software before returning to MIT for graduate study in computer science. Supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, I specialized in computational linguistics. I received my master's in 1999 and stayed 4+ more years in the PhD program until TAing a math class made me recall that I really wanted to teach math. After teaching 2 years at a community college, I started over with graduate school, close to home here at Tulane with a VIGRE fellowship. Naturally, my interests are still computational and I will choose a research area within applied math or statistics. In my spare time, I enjoy biking and Argentine Tango.

Dmitry Kurochkin

In 2004 Dmitry graduated from Moscow State University, where he earned his B.S. & M.S. in Physics (Magna Cum Laude). Then he came to New Orleans and joined Tulane University as a graduate student.

Huicong Li

Yu Liu

Qingyang Luo

Charles Maggio

I grew up in Otis Orchards, Washington which lies outside the city of Spokane close to the Idaho Border.  I came to Tulane right out of High School and received a Bachelors degree in Biomedical Engineering from the now defunct School of Engineering.  After college, I moved to San Fransisco where I worked as a Biomedical Engineer at a forensics consulting firm which provided expert witness testimony at civil and criminal trials.  After a while, San Fransisco lost its charm and I decided to moved back to Spokane to be closer to family.  During this time I taught courses in algebra and pre-calculus at Eastern Washington University and received my Masters Degree from the same with a thesis concerning the enumeration of Hamiltonian cycles in Cayley graphs.  After receiving my Masters, I returned to Tulane to pursue a PhD in math.  For the last two years I've been doing research in the fields of Mathematical Biology and Computational Fluid Dynamics.  The result of this research is an integrative fluids model of the human uterus which combines cellular calcium dynamics and contractions with tissue level material properties and organ level fluid dynamics.  At Tulane I've had the opportunity to teach courses in Probability and Statistics, Calculus, and Applied Mathematics.

Johnathan Meddaugh

K. Nicole Meyer

Andreas Michaelides

Jason Miller

I was born and raised in Hamden, CT. I graduated from Marist College in 2007 with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics with a Chemistry concentration. My mathematical interests are mostly applied, including fluid dynamics and computation. In my spare time I like to play sports (hockey, baseball, golf, and tennis) and music (guitar and drums). I also consider myself somewhat of an outdoorsman as I like to go camping and fly-fishing.

Hoang-Ngan Nguyen

Augustine O'Keefe

Anthony Polizzi

Michael Pollack

Cody Pond

Jeff Pullen

I grew up in Roswell, GA which is a northern suburb of Atlanta. I graduated from Berry College in 2006 with a B.S. in Mathematics before coming to the Ph.D. program at Tulane. My research interests include geometric topology, knot theory, and probability based homology theory. When I'm not doing math, I enjoy playing sports, video games, and hanging out with my friends. 

James Salvatore

I'm originally from central New Jersey.  I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2009 with a degree in Mathematics and spent the following year tutoring New Jersey high school students in math and science.  I've also started a mathblog to teach higher-level maths to interested high school and undergraduate students.  My math interests are currently topology and algebra.  When I'm not doing math, I'm interested in playing instruments (whatever ones I can get my hands on), cooking, playing Super Nintendo games, and biking.

Shanshan Shen

Jeff Steen

Armin Straub

While I basically enjoy all kinds of Mathematics, I am currently focusing on a very enjoyable mix of combinatorics, special functions and computer algebra, usually related to the evaluation of integrals (sure enough: my advisor is Victor Moll).  I spent my first year at Tulane in 2006/2007 and then went back to Germany, my home country, for a year to finish a diploma and graduate from TU Darmstadt.  Since 2008 I'm back at Tulane.  In my free time I particularly enjoy eating, working out, playing poker, watching the stock market, experimenting, and playing soccer (though I can't even shoot straight).

Yuan Teng

Todor Todorov

Tim Twelbeck

Johannes Vonk

Qi Wang

Tian Xiang

Qiang Yang

Xiangfeng Yang

I am from China, where I got my master degree in mathematics in 2007. Now I am a Ph.D student at Tulane math department. Here I want to learn something about probability theory and stochastic processes, which may lead to my thesis. I like Ping Pang during my spare time.

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Last Updated: August 23, 2010