Research Students
One of the best parts of being a faculty mentor is having the opportunity to mentor student research at all levels, on a wide variety of project topics broadly aligned with my research interests. The links below give a sense of the kinds of work students have pursued with me and current Vassar students interested in working on similar projects are welcome to contact me to discuss potential projects. I have also supervised students during the Voting Rights Data Institute and the Data Science for Social Good program, as well as serving as a mentor and the mentor coordinator for WSU’s Research and Mentoring Program.
Current PhD Students
- Weiwei Xie (Coadvised with Dean Johnson WSU Statistics 2022 - )
- Topic: Null models for time series entropy
- Phousawanh Peaungvongpakdy (WSU Mathematics 2022 - )
- Topic: Mathematical and computational democracy
- 2023-2024 GPSA Excellence Award as a Graduate Student Instructor
Graduated PhD Students
- Md. Mahedi Hasan (WSU Statistics 2022 - 2025 )
- Thesis: Inference, Aggregation, and Embedding for Learning Problems on Network and Time Series Data
- 2022-2023 GPSA Excellence Award as a Graduate Student Instructor
- 2023 President's Award for Leadership
- Currently a Postdoc at UW-Madison
- Dr. Swarnita Chakraborty (Coadvised with Jan Dasgupta WSU Statistics 2021 - 2023)
- Thesis: A Novel Approach to Multiple Hypothesis Testing Under Dependence and Insights for Inference on Random Dot Product Networks
- Nancy J. Robertson Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Mathematics for 2020-2021 academic year
- Mike Jacroux Book Award for the Best Student in Theoretical Statistics for 2019-2020 academic year
- Currently a Safety Statistician at Johnson & Johnson R&D
Current MS Students
- Jon Widen (WSU Statistics 2023 - )
- Topic: Distributions of Gaps in Sorted Data
- Currently a PhD student in Mathematics at WSU
Graduated MS Students
- Phousawanh Peaungvongpakdy (WSU Statistics 2022 - 2025)
- Topic: (Parallel Tempered) Short Burst Optimization for Redistricting
- Currently a PhD student in Mathematics at WSU
- Qingwei Qiao (WSU Statistics 2023 - 2024 )
- Topic: Do Social Network Strengths Affect Policy Interventions? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Madagascar
- Economist at Amazon
- Sahil Patil (WSU Statistics 2023 - 2024 )
- Topic: Impact of adapting annealing schedules on a pricing algorithm
- Research Scientist at Amazon Music
- Anastasia Vishnevskaya (WSU Statistics 2021 - 20212)
- Topic: Exploring China's Twiplomacy: Social Network and Sentiment Analysis of the `Chinese Embassy in the US' Twitter Account
- 2021-2022 GPSA Excellence Award as a Graduate Student Instructor
- Currently an Assistant Professor of Communications at Texas Tech
- James Asare (WSU Applied Mathematics 2020 - 2021)
- Topic: Analysis of Optimized Plans for School Redistricting
- 2022 University Wide Three Minute Thesis Competition Winner
- Currently a PhD candidate and research assistant in the WSU College of Education
Current Undergraduate Students
- Olivia McGrew (WSU Math 2024 - )
- Topic: Graph Theory, Markov chains, and computational redistricting
Former Undergraduate Students
- Eric Simpson (WSU Hacker Scholarship 2023)
- Topic: Dynamics of Voting Networks: Implications for Fairness, Representation, and Accountability
- Gray Award Winner SURCA 2023
- Best Poster Winner PiMUC 2023
- Kallie Distler (WSU CAS STEM RAMP 2022 - 2023)
- Topic: Null Models for Social Network Analysis of Elementary School Students
- Novice Award Winner SURCA 2023
- Zhiyaun (Freeman) Chen (WSU Data Analytics 2022)
- Topic: Spatial Influences on Vote Modeling Regression
- 2023 WSU Data Analytics Outstanding Senior
- Karthik Ayyalasomayajula (WSU Data Analytics 2022)
- Topic: Geo-Spatial Analysis of Ranked Choice Voting in Maine Congressional Elections
- Elliot Kimsey (WSU Ableson Scholarship 2021 - 2022)
- Topic: Malapportionment in Washington Dual Graphs and Multi-Balanced Redistricting
- 2023 Data Analytics Student Spotlight
- Publication: Multi-Balanced Redistricting, Journal of Computational Social Science, (to appear 2023).