The Applied Mathematics program at the University of Colorado at Boulder is as unique as its graduates. With 22 tenure track faculty, 45+ affiliated faculty, numerous national research labs located right in the foothills of Boulder, and a plethora of faculty and student lead research projects; the Applied Mathematics graduates have found success in both academia and professionally run companies and conglomerates alike. Below you can see where our graduates have gone to pursue their research interests and career goals.
Graduation Year 2021:
| Name | Dissertation Title | Faculty Advisor | First Position After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sabina Altus | Analysis of multi-structured population models | David Bortz | Postdoctoral Fellow, CU |
| Zofia Stanley | Applications of Mathematics to Climate Modeling: Analysis and Development of Ocean Parameterization and Multivariate Localization Functions | Ian Grooms/William Kleiber | Research Scientist, CIRES/NOAA PSL |
| Osman Asif Malik | Topics in Matrix and Tensor Computation | Stephen Becker | Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| David Gunderman | Discretization and Numerical Integration Schemes for Curved Geometries | John Evans/Bengt Fornberg | Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University |
| Lucia Minah Yang | Numerical Analysis of Mixed Precision Algorithms and Time-steppers for Wave Turbulence, and Generative Modeling for Analogs in Data Assimilation | Ian Grooms | Postdoctoral Doctoral Fellow, NYU |
| Jeremy L Thompson | Local Fourier Analysis of Domain Decomposition and Multigrid Methods for High-Order Matrix-Free Finite Elements | Daniel Appelo/Adrianna Gillman | Research Software Engineer, CU Boulder, PSAAP Center |
| Fortino Garcia | Numerical Methods for Wave Phenomena | Daniel Appelo/Adrianna Gillman | Postdoctoral Fellow, Courant Institute, NYU |
| Erik Johnson | Measuring image resolution in super-resolution microscopy and Bayesian estimation of population size and overlap and vaccine effectiveness | Daniel Larremore | Bioinformatics Scientist, Invitae |
| Alec Michael Dunton | Matrix Methods for Low-Rank Compresssion in Large-Scale Applications | Alireza Doostan | Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Joy N. Mueller | Prefect Simulated and Exact Analytic Solutions for Chemical Reaction Networks and A Level Set Inspired Image Segmentation Algorithm | Jem Corcoran | Postdoctoral Fellow, Sandia National Laboratory |
Graduation Year 2020:
| Name | Dissertation Title | Faculty Advisor | First Position After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hao Xu | Qualitative Analysis of Some Elliptic Differential Equations | Congming Li | Yinnuo Captial |
| Zhishen Huang | Topics of Statistical Machine Learning | Stephen Becker | Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State University |
| Mitchell Krock | Some Models for Large Spatial Data | William Kleiber | Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers |
| Harry Dudley | Dynamical System Analysis and Data-Drive Model Selection for Differential-Algebraic Equation Models of Microbial Electrolysis | David Bortz | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Ashton Wiens | Using Gaussian processes for registration and nonstationarity emulation | William Kleiber | USGS |
| Wenqi Zhang | Statistical Approaches to Assess High Frequency Variability of Solar Irradiance | William Kleiber | National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| Dylan Abrahamsen | Space-time evolution with readial basis functions and Hermite-based finite difference methods | Bengt Fornberg | Maxar Technologies |
| Peter Shaffery | Understanding the Variance Reduction Effect and Beyesian Structural Time Series for Behind-the-Meter Disaggregation | Vanja Dukic | Data Scientist, Office of Data Analytics at the University of Colorado Boulder |
| Jacqueline Wentz | Spatial-temporal effects of diffusion in complex biochemical networks | David Bortz | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder, Aerospace |
| Antony Pearson | On Hidden Structures in Contaminated Symbolic Data | Manuel Lladser | Postdoctoral Fellow, Auburn University, Mathematics and Statistics |
| Joshua Aurand | Optimal Control of Epstein-Zin Utility on Random Time Horizaon | Yu-Jui Huang | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dublin City University, The School of Mathematical Sciences |
Graduation Year 2019:
| Name | Dissertation Title | Faculty Advisor | First Position After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gregor Robinson | Beating the curse of dimensionality of sequential Monte Carlo for Bayesian inverse problems in nonlinear fluids | Ian Grooms | Citrine Informatics |
| Sama Shrestha | Mathematical and Statistical Insights into Couples Epizootic Dynamics | Vanja Dukic | Pharmapace Inc |
| Jessica Gronski | Non-Convex Optimization and Applications to Bilinear Programming and Super-Resolution Imaging | Stephen Becker | UnitedHealth Group |
| Eric Kightley | Sparsified Gaussian Mixture Models | Stephen Becker | Amazon |
| Patrick Sprenger | Generalized Riemann Problems in Dispersive Hydrodynamics | Mark Hoefer | Postdoctoral Fellow, NC State University, Mathematics Department |
| Nathan Heavner | Building Rank-Revealing Factorizations with Randomization | Per Gunnar Martinsson | Data Science at ICR, Inc. |
| Michelle Maiden | Dispersive Hydrodynamics is Viscous Fluid Conduits | Mark Hoefer | Sporian Microsystems |
| Tracy Babb | Accelerated time-stepping of parabolic and hyperbolic PDEs via fast direct solvers for elliptic problems | Per Gunnar Martinsson | |
| Anna Broido | Describing the Tails of Degree Distributions in Real-World Networkds | Aaron Clauset and Juan Restrepo | Machine Learning Engineer at Apple Inc. |
| Companies | Academia |
|---|---|
| NCAR | Metro State |
| Software Architect at Spectra | Clarkson University |
| National Security Agency | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | University of Washington |
| Bioninformatics | Davidson College |
| Food and Water Watch | Fitchburg State University |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Montclair State University |
| Scientist at MetOffice in UK | Austr. National University |
| Ubiquity Corp | Washington State University |
| Digital Globe | University of Western Montana |
| Prudential | Seattle University |
| Cadence Design System | Boise State |
| Exxon Mobil | University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana |
| Yahoo! Labs | Technische Universitat Wein |
| Aerospace Corporation | University of Newfoundland |
| Groupon | Wabash College |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | National Central University |
| SpotRight Inc | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Center for Communicable Disease | Yonsei University of Seoul, Korea |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology | Pennsylvania University |
| Seagate Technology | Colorado State University |
| Walt Disney Company | Morehouse College |