Advisees
Post-doctoral researchers
- Hongdi Huang, Summer 2020 - Spring 2024, Rice University.
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Former graduate student of Jason Bell.
- Next position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Shanghai University.
- Xingting Wang, Fall 2015 - Spring 2018, Temple University.
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Former graduate student of James Zhang.
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Next position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Howard University.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Louisiana State University.
Ph.D. students
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Jacob Kesten, Summer 2023 - present, Rice U., Ph.D candidate.
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Fernando Liu Lopez, Summer 2021 - present,
Rice U., Ph.D candidate.
Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics, Rice U.
Graduate Teaching Award for Independent Instruction , Rice U. (two per year awarded univ-wide). -
Anh Tuong Nguyen, Summer 2019 - Fall 2023, UIUC.
Thesis: Coend elements of a Hopf algebra in a braided rigid monoidal category. [found here]
Next position: Trexquant Investment. -
Fabio Alejandro Calderón Mateus, Fall 2020 - Summer 2023, National U. Colombia - Bogotá.
Co-advisor: Milton Armando Reyes Villamil.
Fulbright Fellowship to visit Rice U. for the 2021-22 AY.
Thesis: Algebraic properties of weak quantum symmetries. [found here]
Next position: Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Universidad de los Andes to work with Cesar Galindo. -
Harshit Yadav, Spring 2019 - Spring 2023, (UIUC transfer to) Rice University.
Nettie S. Autrey Fellowship , Rice U. (one per year awarded college-wide).
Thesis: Functorial constructions of Frobenius algebras in the Drinfeld center. [found here]
Next position: Max Wyman Asst. Prof. at U. Alberta to work with Thomas Creutzig and Terry Gannon.
- Zachary Cline, Fall 2015 - Spring 2019, Temple University.
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Thesis: Extending actions of Hopf algebras to actions of the Drinfel'd double. [found here]
Next position: Visiting Assistant Professorship at Bucknell University.
Current position: TREND Community.
Undergraduate research students
- Abiel Quinonez, May 2024 - November 2024, Rice University.
- Topic: Extended Frobenius structures. [paper] Applying for Ph.D programs in Mathematics, to start Fall 2025
- Amanda Hernandez, January 2021 - April 2022, Rice University.
- Next position: Mathematics Ph.D. program at Brown University.
- Topic: Non-counital Frobenius algebras. [paper]
- Andrew Estornell and Matthew Wynne, April 2017 - May 2018, Temple University.
- AE's next position: Computer Science Ph.D. program at Washington University, St. Louis.
- MW's next position: Mathematics Ph.D. program at University of Washington, Seattle.
- Topic: Deformations of monomial algebras. [paper]
- Dong Bin Choi, January - December 2016, Temple University.
- Next position: Mathematics Ph.D. program at Temple University.
- Topic: Noncommutative Invariant Theory. [poster]
- Daniel J. Reich, June 2014 - August 2015, Temple University.
- Next position: Applied Mathematics Ph.D. program at North Carolina State University.
- Topic: PI three-dimensional Sklyanin algebras. [paper]
Short-term advisees
- Vincent Thompson (Ph.D. student at Rice U.), January 2022 - May 2023.
- Colleen Delaney (Postdoc at Indiana U.), Spring 2020, MSRI. Pablo Ocal (Ph.D. advisor: Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M U.), Spring 2020, MSRI.
- Hongdi Huang (Ph.D. advisor: Jason Bell, U. Waterloo), Fall 2019, UIUC.