Doctoral graduates of the Computational Mathematical and Statistical Sciences program since its opening in the Fall semester of 2009 have been:
Yue Zhao (Dr. Maadooliat and Dr. Haghbin)
Dissertation: Regularized Multivariate Functional Principal Component Analysis
First position: Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN
Chase Sakitis (Dr. Rowe)
Dissertation: Formal Bayesian Approaches to the SENSE and GRAPPA Parallel FMRI Reconstruction Techniques Along with Their Combination
First position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Fridley Research Lab for Cancer Research, Children’s Mercy Research Institute, Kansas City, MO
Paromita Nitu (Dr. Madiraju)
Dissertation: Predictive Analytics with Class Imbalance: In Personalized Travel Recommendation and Automotive Crash Injury Research
First position: Data Scientist, General Motors, Warren, MI
Sunil Mathew (Dr. Rowe)
Dissertation: Generation of Cardiac Chamber Models Using Interpretable Generative Neural Networks For Electrophysical Studies
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rey Lab for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
William Herzberg (Drs. Hamilton and Rowe)
Dissertation: Graph Neural Networks For Inverse Problems With Sample Specific Meshes
First position: Signal Processing Engineer, Advanced Global Clinical Solutions, Inc., New Berlin, WI
Jiachen Ma (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Temporal Sentiment Mapping System for Time-Synchronized Data
First position: Senior Data Scientist, Direct Supply, Inc., Milwaukee, WI
Lin He (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Quantitative Multidimensional Stress Assessment from Facial Videos
First position: Senior Data Scientist, Direct Supply, Inc., Milwaukee, WI
Fitrat Hossain (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Defining And Predicting Mental Health Crisis Events For Veterans Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Approaches
First position: Data Scientist, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Haochen Sun (Dr. Perouli)
Dissertation: All Pairs Routing Path Enumeration Using Latin Multiplication and Julia
First Position: Faculty, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China
Heather Bort (Dr. Brylow)
Dissertation: Enacting Systemic Change: The Evolving Landscape of Computer Science Education in the State of Wisconsin
First position: Data Architect, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), Milwaukee, WI
Nazmus Sakib (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: A Data-driven System for Sepsis Monitoring and Intervention using Contextually-tailored Bayesian Online Change Point Detection
First position: Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University of Buffalo, NY
Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA (Fall 2022)
Banbithi Bose (Dr. Bozdag)
Dissertation: Integration of Multi-Omics Data to Compute Gene Regulatory Networks and to Predict Personalized Drug Response in Cancer
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Jordan Trinka (Dr. Maadooliat)
Dissertation: Functional Singular Spectrum Analysis: Nonparametric Decomposition and Forecasting Approaches for Functional Time Series
First position: Postdoctorate Research Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA
Current position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Manzur Farazi (Dr. Bansal)
Dissertation: Predictive Analysis on Knee X-ray Image and Mosquito Spectral Data
First position: Biostatistician, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Currently: Statistical Research Scientist II, Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin
Zhou Wu (Dr. Perouli)
Dissertation: Dependence and Scalable Public Ledger for Policy Compliance, a Blockchain Based Approach
First position: Blockchain Researcher, Bank of China
Masabho Peter Milali (Dr. Corliss)
Dissertation: Machine Learning and Data Mining Methods to Estimate Parity Status and Age of Wild Mosquito Vectors of Infectious Diseases from Near-infrared Spectra
First position: Information Specialist Contractor at AbbVie Inc.
Currently: Associate Research Scientist, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY (Fall 2020)
Md Kamrul Hasan (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: BEst (Biomarker Estimation): Health Biomarker Estimation Non-invasively and Ubiquitously
First position: Northwestern Mutual Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ
Currently: Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN (Fall 2022)
Xuyong Yu (Dr. Merrill)
Dissertation: Evaluating Electrode-tissue Contact Force Using the Moving Pattern of the Catheter Tip and Electrogram Characteristics
First position: Senior AI Engineer, Fii USA, Milwaukee, WI
Currently: Senior Algorithm Engineer, AccuPulse Medical Inc
Benjamin Rizzo (Dr. Clough)
Dissertation: Compressed Sensing for Few-view Multi-pinhole SPECT with Applications to Preclinical Imaging
First position: Adjunct Instructor, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, Milwaukee, WI (Fall 2019)
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biomedical Engineering, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, Milwaukee, WI (Spring 2020)
Duc Do (Dr. Bozdag)
Dissertation: Inference and Analysis of Multilayered miRNA-mediated Networks in Cancer
First position: Data Scientist at Elynx Technologies LLC
Currently: Senior Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer, Persefoni (Fall 2022)
Drew Williams (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Developing Accessible Collection and Presentation Methods for Observational Data
Currently: Software Engineer II at (Fall 2020)
Kehinde Irabor (Dr. Merrill)
Dissertation: Bifurcation in Weighted Digraphs and their Applications in Ecology
First position: Adjunct Instructor, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ (Fall 2019)
Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Concordia University, Wisconsin. (Fall 2020)
Brittany Baur (Dr. Bozdag)
Dissertation: Identifying Regulators from Multiple Types of Biological Data in Cancer
First position: Postdoc in the Sushmita Roy's lab at Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at University of Wisconsin - Madison (Fall 2017)
Currently: Senior Data Engineer, University of Michigan Medical School (Fall 2022)
Md Osman Gani (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: A Novel Approach to Complex Human Activity Recognition
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Miami University
Currently: Assistant Professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County (Fall 2020)
Regis Rutarindwa (Dr. Spiller)
Dissertation: Computational Strategies in Uncertainty Quantification for Hazard Mapping
First position: Support Engineer at SAP SE in Philadelphia
Currently: Data & Applied Scientist II, Microsoft (Spring 2021)
Piyush Rai Saxena (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Feature Space Augmentation: Improving Prediction Accuracy of Classical Problems in Cognitive Science and Computer Vision
First position: Data Scientist at Direct Supply
Currently: Director of Data Science, Direct Supply (Fall 2021)
Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Motivational and Intervention Systems and Monitoring with mHealth Tools
First position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural and Applied Science at University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Current position: Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Karl D. Stamm (Dr. Bozdag)
Dissertation: Gene Set Enrichment and Projection: A Computational Tool for Knowledge Discovery in Transcriptomes
First position: Research Scientist at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Director of Bioinformatics at TAI Diagnostics
Currently: Data Scientist, Kaiser Permanente (Fall 2022)
AKM Jahangir Majumder (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Development of a Wireless Mobile Computing Platform Towards Fall Risk Prediction
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Miami University, Ohio
Currently: Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of South Carolina Upstate
Rizwana Rizia (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: A Mobile Health Approach to Assist Veterans Reintegrating into Civilian Life
First position: Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Currently: Software Development Engineer II, Amazon (Fall 2018)
Ivor D. Addo (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Designing Human-centered Collective Intelligence
First position: Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Department at University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Mary Kociuba (Dr. Rowe)
Dissertation: A Fourier Description of Covariance and Separation of Simultaneously Encoded Slices with In-plane Acceleration in fMRI
First position: Senior Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics Division of Neonatology (Biomedical Image Computing Group) at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Currently: Research Scientist, Amazon, Seattle, WA (Fall 2017)
Mohammad Adibuzzaman (Dr. Ahamed and Dr. Merrill)
Dissertation: Computational Approaches for Monitoring of Health Parameters and Their Evaluation in Clinical Setting
First position: Assistant Research Scientist, Purdue University
Currently: Assistant Professor & Co-Director of Clinical Informatics. Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR (Fall 2022)
Ferdaus Kawsar (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Computational Approaches for Remote Monitoring of Symptoms and Activities
First position: Research Scientist II in the Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin
Currently: Software Developer at Investment Cash Management, Wilmington, DE (Fall 2022)
Iain Bruce (Dr. Rowe)
Dissertation: Determination of Correlations Induced by the SENSE and GRAPPA PMRI Models with an Application to MRI RF Coil Design
First position: Postdoctoral Associate within the Duke/UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center (BIAC) at Duke University in Durham, NC
Currently: MR Imaging and Applications Scientist, Polarean Imaging, Durham, NC
Samson Kiware (Dr. Corliss)
Dissertation: Bioinformatics Systems and Mathematical Models for Improved Understanding of Malaria Transmission, Control, and Elimination
First position: Research Scientist, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania
Currently: Research Scientist, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania
Mohammad Tanviruzzaman (Dr. Ahamad and Dr. Merrill)
Dissertation: Towards Usable End-user Authentication
First position: SDE Intern, Microsoft
Currently: Software Engineer at Facebook, Bothell, Washington (Spring 2021)
M. Muge Karaman (Dr. Rowe)
Dissertation: Improving fMRI Analysis and MR Reconstruction with the Incorporation of MR Relaxivities and Correlation Effect Examination
First position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for MR Research –
3T Program (CMRR-3T), University of Illinois at Chicago
Currently: Assistant Director, Center for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (Fall 2022)
Prachi Pradeep (Dr. Merrill)
Dissertation: Hybrid Computational Toxicology Models for Regulatory Risk Assessment
First position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Currently: Scientific Officer, Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, Germany (Fall 2022)
Farzana Rahman (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Ensuring Application Specific Security, Privacy and Performance Goals in RFID System
First position: Assistant Professor, James Madison University
Currently: Associate (Teaching) Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University. (Fall 2019)
Md. Manirul Haque (Dr. Ahamed)
Dissertation: Mobile Based Symptom Management for Palliative Care
First position: Postdoctoral Associate at UAB
Currently: Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Software Engineering at Butler University
