Program Participants

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Current Postdocs

Year 1

Shay Gilpin

Zhengning Hu

Frédéric Marazzato

Debaditya Raychaudhury

Xiaolong Zhang

Year 2

Maria Deliyianni

Rongchang Liu

Jay Mayfield

Arvind Suresh

Pan Yan

Year 3

Michael Conroy

Alison Mirin

John Peca-Medlin

Matea Santiago

Aparna Upadhyay

Year 4

Darlayne Addabbo

Christian Parkinson

Former Postdocs

Although the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona has hosted many postdoctoral fellows over the years, the postdoctoral program described herein was started in 2016. The entries below thus only include participants who held a postdoctoral position in our department during or after Fall 2016.

  • Kelly MacArthur, 2022-2023, took a position at Raytheon Technologies

  • Fabián Santiago, 2021-2022, took a Postdoctoral Researcher position at the University of California Merced
  • Lei Yang, 2021-2022, took a position at Apple

  • Kevin Childers, 2020-2021, took a Modeling and Simulation Engineer position at Raytheon Technologies
  • Avinash Karamchandani, 2020-2023
  • Weinan Wang, 2020-2023, became an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma

  • Sungyoon Cho, 2019-2023, took a Visiting Assistant Professor position at Postech
  • Christina Durón, 2019-2022, became an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at Pepperdine University
  • William Lippitt, 2019-2020, (Visiting Assistant Professor) enrolled in the PhD Program in Biostatistics at the University of Colorado Denver
  • Weihua Liu, 2019-2020, took a tenure track research position at Zhejiang University
  • Yong-Suk Moon, 2019-2022, became an Assistant Research Fellow of Mathematics at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, BIMSA
  • Ethan O'Brien, 2019-2022
  • Nicole Sullivant, 2019-2022, became a full time 3 Term Instructor in the School of Math Science and Engineering at Central New Mexico Community College
  • Ahmed Zerouali, 2019-2021, left to consider a career in industry

  • Alex Farrell, 2018-2021, took a Data Scientist position at Caris Life Sciences
  • Keaton Hamm, 2018-2020, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas Arlington
  • Vahan Huroyan, 2018-2022, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at St. Louis University
  • Tiffany Jones, 2018-2021, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Sam Houston State University
  • Melinda Lanius, 2018-2021, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Auburn University
  • Jinjin Liang, 2018-2019, (Visiting Assistant Professor) became an analyst for Wells Fargo
  • Yiwen Liu, 2018-2020, (Visiting Assistant Professor) became an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Arizona
  • Siddharth Mathur, 2018-2019, took a postdoctoral researcher position in the Mathematics Institute at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf
  • Raymundo Navarrete, 2018-2021, took a Research Scientist position at Upstart

  • Yongtao Cheng, 2017-2020, (Visiting Assistant Professor) enrolled in the Master of Finance program at the University of Arizona
  • Lynette Guzmán, 2017-2019, became an Assistant Professor of STEM Education in the Kremen School of Education & Human development at California State University Fresno
  • Minh Kha, 2017-2020
  • Rachel Neville, 2017-2020, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Northern Arizona University
  • Guanying Peng, 2017-2020, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Dulip Piyaratne, 2017-2019, became an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Xiamen University Malaysia
  • Eugenia Rosu, 2017-2018, continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
  • Faryad Sahneh, 2017-2021, became a Senior Scientist at Startup Flagship Labs 74
  • Jianfei Xue, 2017-2020, took a postdoctoral position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Missouri

  • Houssam Abdul Rahman, 2016-2020, became a Visiting Assistant Professor  at NUY Abu Dhabi
  • Jeremy Booher, 2016-2019, continued on as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Canterbury in Christchurch. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Florida
  • Paul Carter, 2016-2019, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of California Irvine
  • Erik Davis, 2016-2017, (Visiting Assistant Professor)  took a data research and development position at Conversant, Chicago
  • Ngoc Do, 2016-2019, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Missouri State University
  • Lidia Mrad, 2016-2019, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Mount Holyoke College
  • Jingchen Niu, 2016-2020
  • Tracy Stepien, 2016-2019, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Florida
  • Jay Taylor, 2016-2019, took a postdoctoral position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern California. He is currently a Neumann Fellow at the University of Manchester
  • Matthew Wheeler, 2016-2019, became a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Florida
  • Amanda Young, 2016-2019, continued on as a Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology Distinguished Fellow 

  • Jeremiah Birrell, 2015-2017, continued on as a Marshall H. Stone Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Gabriela Jaramillo, 2015-2018, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston

  • Diane Holcomb, 2014-2017, took a postdoctoral position in the Department of Mathematics at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology ,Stockholm, Sweden
  • Robert Jenkins, 2014-2018, (Visiting Assistant Professor) took a visiting position in the Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University
  • Tyler Kloefkorn, 2014-2017, received an AAAS Fellowship to work in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation
  • Joshua Lioi, 2014-2017, became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of South Alabama
  • Saulo Orizaga, 2014-2017, continued on as an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University
  • Katherine Walsh, 2014-2017, became an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut

Postdoc Governance Team

President

Arvind Suresh

Vice President

Maria Deliyianni

Teaching Representative

Zhengning Hu

Representative to the Undergraduate Committee

Jay Mayfield

Social Representative

Frédéric Marazzato

Representative to the CDEI Committee

Alison Mirin

Representative to the CDEI Committee

John Peca-Medlin

Current & Former Mentors

 
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