Students Supervised

High school students

  • Sarah Shader, Generalized Catalan Numbers, 2013. Won MAA’s 2nd Place Award at Intel’s International Science & Engineering Fair
  • Matt Haigler, The Wyoming Lasso, High School Science Fair Project, 2004.
  • Jason Chiu, Results on Fibonacci Numbers, High School Science Project, 1999. Won 4th Place in Mathematics Division of Intel’s International Science & Engineering Fair
  • Matt Ong, Difference Sets, High School Science Fair Project, 1998. Won Best of Mathematics Division in Intel’s International Science & Engineering Fair.

Undergraduates

  • Jacob Williams, Fastest Mixing Markov Chains, UW Science Initiative Scholar, 2016–2018.
  • Anna Schenfisch, Turan Numbers of vertex disjoint cliques in r-partite graphs, UW Honors project, 2017–2018.
  • Zac Hall, Dimer-Monomer Problems, UW Honors project, and EPSCoR Fellow, 2015–2016, 2016–2017.
  • Christer Karlsson, 2D Dynamical Systems, 2006.
  • Phil Meister, Breaking CAPTCHAs, 2006
  • Kim Creaser, Coin weighing problems, 2005
  • Brenda Christensen, Shared security systems, 2004
  • Andy Curtis, External memory algorithms for graphs, 2004
  • Andy Curtis, Attacks on Small World Networks, 2003
  • Brian Gilbert, The Collatz Sequence, McNair Scholar Project, 1999
  • Beau Grande, Cards, Combinations, Probability \& Fibonacci, 1994

Masters students

  • Bryan Curtis, MS 2018
  • David Livingston, MS 2018
  • Alex Karanevich, A combinatorial approach to load balancing for Markov chains with a specified directed graph, MS, 2014.
  • Mary Allison, Minimizing the average mean-first passage time for Markov chains associated with a graph, MS, 2014
  • Maik Kohlbus, Spectral Techniques and Applications, 2003
  • Maria Anderson, Max-Plus Algebra and Applications, 2002
  • Joel Hayano, Linear Algebra in High School, 2000
  • Lisa Lister, Graph Decomposition, MS, 1997
  • Cynthia Struckman, Using Journals to Enhance Communication in the Math Class, 1996
  • Linda Galafaro, Mathematics and Our Environment: Teaching Environmental Education through the Context of Mathematics, 1996
  • Susan Heyborne, An Introduction to the Theory of the Singular Value
  • Decomposition, 1995
  • Jochen Nottenbaum, Costas Arrays, MS, 1994
  • Saib Suwilo, The Road Coloring Conjecture for Cayley Digraphs, 1994

PhD students

  • Caleb Cheung, Strong inverse singular value property, Current student, 2026.
  • Bryan Curtis, Sign Patterns of Orthogonal Matrices, 2020. Air Force Research Lab.
  • Jonathan Earl, Minimum number of distinct eigenvalues and diameter, 2020.
    CEO Patch Cap, Inc.
  • Curtis Nelson Tiling with dominoes and monomers, P-sets, and the inverse eigenvalue problem, 2015. Associate Professor, BYU-Idaho.
  • Mary Allison, Minimizing the average mean-first passage time for Markov Chains, 2014
  • Keivan Hassani Monfared, The Jacobian Method: the art of finding needles in nearby haystacks, 2014. Senior Data Scientist at Quora.
  • Sudipta Mallik, New probabilistic, combinatorial and algebraic methods for minimum rank problems, 2014. Assistant Professor, Marshall University
  • Reshmi Nair, Acyclic matrices with a small number of distinct eigenvalues, 2009
    Senior Statistician, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
  • Colin Garnett, Spectrally Arbitrary Sign Patterns, 2009. Associate Professor, Black Hills State University
  • Brent Deschamp, Permanents of Hessenberg permutation matrices, 2006. Assistant Professor of Math, South Dakota School of Mines
  • In-Jae Kim, Spectral properties of combinatorial classes of matrices, 2005 Director for Center for Excellence in Scholarship and Research, U. Minnesota-Mankato
  • Justin Christian, Three Problems in Combinatorial Matrix Theory, 2005 Senior Data Scientist, Amazon Web Services
  • Saib Suwilo, On 2-exponents of 2-digraphs, 2001. Professor, University of Sumatera Utata, Indonesia
  • Jeff Poet Score Certificates of Upset Tournaments, 1998. Professor, Missouri Western University
  • Lisa Lister,.Graph Decompositions, 1997. Professor, Bloomsburg University
  • Michael Adams, Generalized Orthogonal Arrays and Related Structures 1997.
    Adjunct Professor, Carelton College
  • Liz Boyer,Biclique Decompositions of Graphs, 1995.
    Director, Software and Application Development at Lincoln Financial Group.

Post-docs

  • Si-Ju Kim 1999-2000
  • Gwang-Yeon Lee, 1997-1998
  • Gi-Sang-Cheon, 1996-1997