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Student Research

I enjoy working with students in research, whether during the summer or throughout the academic year.
There are a variety of funding streams for students to engage in preliminary research. At the national level, students can browse and apply for STEM-related opportunities through agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Other mathematics-related opportunities for undergraduate as well as graduate students can be found on the website for NSF-funded Mathematical Sciences Institutes.

SMU also has several programs for undergraduate research, some of which provide stipends. Upon completion of a project, there are opportunities for publication and presentation of the work, such as at SMU’s annual Research Days.

Former Graduate Students

Anyu Zhang (PhD student)
Southern Methodist University, Summer 2014 – Fall 2019
Model Selection and Experimental Design of Biological Networks with Algebraic Geometry

Former Undergraduate Students

Daniel Chavez and Eli Laird
Southern Methodist University, Summer 2020 – Spring 2021
Modeling the transmission of COVID-19 in small populations: A case study of Southern Methodist University

Alec Mason
Southern Methodist University, Summer 2020
Agent-Based Modeling Grants Insight into the Effect of Policy Responses to COVID-19

Olivia Marx (supported by SMU Mayer program)
Southern Methodist University, Summer – Fall 2019
Mathematical Modeling of Genetic Interactions in C. elegans
Co-advised by Dr. Adam Norris (biology)

Xiyuan Cui
Southern Methodist University, May 2019 – May 2019
Determining affine transformations between sets of points

Rafael Sierra (Engaged Learning)
Southern Methodist University, Summer 2015 – Spring 2016

Rachel Crusius and Jessica Otah (both supported by SMU Hamilton Scholars program)
Southern Methodist University, Summer 2014
Classified signs of regulatory interactions in gene networks.
Presented poster at SACNAS National Conference

Arnaud Zimmern (supported by SMU Hamilton and Mayer programs)
Southern Methodist University, Summer 2012 – Spring 2014
Studied dialogue structure in Little Red Riding Hood stories using braid theory.
Presented a TEDxSMU talk
Co-advised by Dr Dennis Foster (English)

Vy Nguyen (supported by SMU Hamilton Scholars program)
Southern Methodist University, Summer 2012 – Spring 2014
Computed the necessary and sufficient amount of data to uniquely identify a minimal PDS model of a gene regulatory network.

Brittani Boukather (supported by SMU Hamilton Scholars program), Vy Nguyen, Pinky Patel (Master’s student at UT Arlington)
Southern Methodist University, Fall 2012 – Spring 2013
Studied the effect of term order choice on reverse engineering gene regulatory networks.
Presented poster at SMU Research Day

Gleb Glebov
Southern Methodist University, Fall 2012 – Spring 2013
Studied Mersenne primes, irrationality conditions, and the Riemann zeta function
A peculiar proof of an identity of Euler, Mathematical Gazette 99 (March 2015)

Mahnprit Jutley
Southern Methodist University, Summer 2009 – 2010
Discovered a formula for counting the number of vector-space bases for coordinate rings.

Deirdra White
Mathematical Biosciences Institute/Virginia Tech, Spring – Summer 2006
Studied statistical models for identifying minimal wiring diagrams of biological networks.

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