History of Postdocs at the OU Math Department

Name Years Mentor Research Area Anterior Positions Posterior Positions
Max Forester 2003‑2004 Noel Brady Geometric Group Theory
Topology
Univ of Warwick OU (tenure-track)
Zheng (Zeno)
Huang
2003‑2004 Meijun Zhu Teichmuller theory Rice Univ Univ Michigan (postdoc)
Nghiem Nguyen 2004‑2005 John Albert Partial differential equations U of Illinois at Chicago
(PhD 2004)
Purdue (postdoc)
Utah State University
Yilong Ni 2004‑2007 Meijun Zhu Geometric analysis Yale
(PhD 2003)
J.P. Morgan Chase
(Executive Director)
Florent Bernon 2004‑2005 Tomasz Przebinda Representation Theory Univ of Poitiers Univ of Versailles
Josh Barnard 2004‑2007 Noel Brady Geometric Group Theory
Low-dimensional Topology
UC Santa Barbara Univ of South Alabama
Victor Protsak 2004‑2007 Tomasz Przebinda Representation Theory Univ of Minnesota Cornell (postdoc)
Math Reviews
Geoffrey Dietz 2005‑2006 Ed Cline Commutative Algebra Univ of Michigan Gannon University
Ajay Ramadoss 2005‑2007 Andy Magid Algebraic Geometry U of Chicago Cornell (postdoc),
Indiana Univ
Pallavi Dani 2005‑2008 Noel Brady Geometric Group Theory U of Chicago Louisiana State Univ
(tenure-track)
Vlad Yaskin 2006‑2008 Paul Goodey Analysis and Convexity Univ of Missouri Univ of Alberta
(tenure-track)
Maryna Yaskina 2006‑2008 Paul Goodey Analysis and Convexity Univ of Missouri Univ of Alberta (postdoc)
Matt Clay 2006‑2009 Max Forester Geometric Group Theory Univ of Utah Allegheny Col (postdoc),
Univ Arkansas 
Ameya Pitale 2006‑2009 Ralf Schmidt Automorphic Forms Ohio State AIM (postdoc),
OU (tenure-track)
Mark McKee 2007‑2010 Tomasz Przebinda Representation Theory
Automorphic Forms
Purdue Univ of Iowa
Ajit Bhand 2008‑2011 Krishnan Shankar Riemannian geometry Queen's Univ.
(PhD 2007)
IISER (India)
Dan Guralnik 2008‑2011 Noel Brady Geometric Group Theory Technion
(PhD 2005)
Univ of Pennsylvania
Mike Jablonski 2008‑2012 Kyung-Bai Lee Riemannian geometry U of North Carolina
(PhD 2008)
OU (tenure-track)
Maria Leite 2008‑2011 Nikola Petrov Dynamical Systems
Math Biology
Purdue (Postdoc 05-08)
U. of Houston (PhD 2008)
U Toledo (tenure-track)
U of South Florida at St Petersburg (tenure-track)
Stephen Spallone 2008‑2011 Alan Roche Automorphic Forms Purdue IISER Pune
Manwah (Lilian) Wong 2009‑2010 Christian Remling Mathematical Physics? CalTech Georgia Tech, Industry
Dmitri Scheglov 2009‑2012 Kasra Rafi Dynamics Penn State Univ. Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
Erin Pearse 2010‑2012 Keri Kornelson Fractal Geometry
Analysis
UC-Riverside (PhD 2006)
Cornell (Postdoc 06-07)
U of Iowa (Postdoc 07-10)
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (tenure-track)
Xiang Huang 2010‑2013 Meijun Zhu PDEs
Image analysis
Univ Connecticut
(PhD 2010)
NYU (postdoc)
Qing Lu 2011‑2012 Kimball Martin Automorphic Forms Columbia Univ
(PhD 2011)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ngyuen Hoang 2011‑2014 Semion Gutman Operator Theory
Numerical Analysis
Kansas State
(PhD 2011)
Univ of West Georgia
Luis Lomeli 2011‑2014 Alan Roche Automorphic Forms U Iowa
(PhD 2007)
Max Planck (postdoc), Valparaiso (Chile)
Joel Louwsma 2011‑2014 Max Forester Geometric Group Theory CalTech
(PhD 2011)
Smith College
Christina Durfee 2012‑2015 Murad Ozaydin Character Theory of Finite Groups / Graph Theory Wisconsin - Madison
(PhD 2012)
OU (instructor)
Chenxu He 2012‑2015 Kyung-Bai Lee Riemannian Geometry
Geometrical Analysis
Lehigh University
(Visiting Assist. Prof.)
University of Pennsylvania
(Visiting Scholar)
UC Riverside
Matthew McBride 2012‑2015 Christian Remling Functional Analysis
Noncommutative Geometry
Operator Theory
PDEs
Purdue University
(PhD 2012)
Mississippi State
(tenure-track)
Chun-Yi (Jean) Sun 2012‑2014 Kasra Rafi
Jing Tao
Geometric Group Theory Yale Industry
Jeff Meyer 2013‑2016 Lucy Lifschitz Arithmetic Groups / Locally Symmetric Spaces / Lie Groups / Algebraic Groups over Local and Global Fields / Quadratic Forms U Michigan
(PhD 2013)
Cal State San Bernardino
(tenure-track)
John Villavert 2013‑2015 Rüdiger Landes Nonlinear Analysis
PDEs
U Colorado
(PhD 2013)
UT Rio Grande Valley (tenure-track)
Garrett Alston 2014‑2017 Michael Jablonski
Murad Özaydin
Symplectic Geom.
Kahler Geom.
Kansas State, Hong Kong (Postdoc)
Wisconsin Madison
(PhD 2010)
Industry: Stellar Science in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Rodney Keaton 2014‑2016 Ameya Pitale Algebraic Number Theory
Automorphic Forms
Special Values of L-functions
Clemson U
(PhD 2014)
East Tennessee State (tenure-track)
Darren Ong 2014‑2016 Christian Remling Functional Analysis
Operator Theory
Dynamical Systems
Ergodic Theory
Rice U
(PhD 2014)
Xiamen University, Malaysia
Robert Tang 2014‑2017 Jing Tao Geometric Group Theory
Mapping Class Groups
Techmuller Theory
Warwick U
(PhD 2013)
Okinawa Inst of Science and Tech (postdoc)
David Plaxco 2015‑2017 Milos Savic RUME Virginia Tech
(PhD 2015)
Clayton State University
Matthew Gluck 2015‑2018 Meijun Zhu PDEs U of Florida
(PhD 2014)
Towson University
Jonathan Epstein 2016‑2019 Mike Jablonski Differential Geometry Dartmouth Coll
(PhD 2015)
(1) Visiting position at OU
(2) Lect. at McDaniel Coll. (Westminster, MD)
Jonathan Troup 2016‑2019 Sepideh Stewart RUME U of Northern Colorado
(PhD 2015)
CSU Bakersfield
Nicholas Davidson 2016‑2019 Jon Kujawa Associative rings and algebras U of Oregon
(PhD 2016)
Reed College
Jonathan Cohen 2017‑2021 Kimball Martin
Alan Roche
p-adic representation theory UMD College Park
(PhD 2017)
Univ of North Texas
(postdoc)
Stefan Schnake 2017‑2020 Ying Wang Numerical methods for PDEs Univ of Tennessee
(PhD 2017)
Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.
(postdoctoral assoc.)
Fan Yang 2017‑2020 Alex Grigo Dynamical Systems U of Southern California
(PhD 2015)
Michigan State Univ
(postdoc)
Andrew Swift 2018‑2021 Javier Alejandro Chávez‑Domínguez Geometry of Banach spaces Texas A&M
(PhD 2018)
(industry)
Jory Griffin 2019‑2022 Pengfei Zhang Ergodic Theory Queen's University (postdoc)
U of Bristol (PhD 2017)
U of Bristol (postdoc)
Daniel Smolkin 2019‑2020 Roi Docampo Commutative Algebra U of Utah
(PhD 2019)
University of Michigan (postdoc)
Hung Tran 2019‑2022 Justin Malestein Geom Group Theory U of W - Milwaukee
(PhD 2015)
UC Riverside (postdoc)
Emily Gunawan 2020‑2023 Greg Muller Cluster Algebras UConn (postdoc)
U Minnesota (PhD 2016)
UMass Lowell
(tenure-track)
Hitesh Gakhar 2020‑2023 Miroslav Kramar Topological Data Analysis Michigan State
(PhD 2020)
Michigan State
(teaching position)
Mario Morán Cañón 2021‑2024 Roi Docampo Algebraic Geometry U of Rennes
(PhD 2020)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (tenure-track)
Samuel Lin 2021‑2024 Ricardo Mendes Riemannian Geom. Dartmouth (postdoc)
Mich. State (PhD 2017)
Colby College (postdoc)
Joshua Pankau 2021‑2024 Jing Tao Geom Group Theory U of Iowa (postdoc)
UCSB (PhD 2018)
OU (lecturer)
Harrison Gaebler 2021‑2022 John Albert and Javier Alejandro Chávez‑Domínguez Functional Analysis U of Kansas (PhD 2021) U of North Texas (postdoc)
Jack Arbunich 2022‑ John Albert PDEs U of Toronto (postdoc)
U of Chicago (PhD 2019)
Gary Moon 2022‑ Allen Wu PDEs U of North Carolina (PhD 2022)
Victor Bailey 2023‑ Keri Kornelson Frame Theory Georgia Tech (PhD 2023)
Anuradha Ekanayake 2023‑ Max Forester Low Dimensional Topology U of Pittsburgh (PhD 2023)
Lauren Grimley 2023‑ Jon Kujawa Associative rings and algebras Spring Hill College (tenured)
Texas A&M (PhD 2016)
Gefei Dang 2024‑ Kimball Martin Number Theory MIT (PhD 2024)
Elizabeth Kelley 2024‑ Travis Mandel Algebraic Combinatorics U of Illinois Urbana Champaign (postdoc)
U of Minnesota (PhD 2021)
Jiamin Li 2024‑ András Cristian Lőrincz Representation Theory U of Illinois at Chicago (PhD 2024)