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) |