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MS and PhD in Mathematics

Summer 2023

Masters Graduates | Professors 
  • Daniel Davidson | Schurz
Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation
  • MD Mostak Ahammed | Bhattacharya | Constrained inference in a scaled linear mixed model for multiple outcomes
  • Afnan Almazmomi | Bhattacharya | Effect of Misspecified Covariance Matrix on Constrained Hypotheses Tests for Two-stage Samples
  • Hiroshani Senarathna | Sullivan | Classifying Knots and Links in L(1,−1) Template
  • Manisha Varahagiri | Ban | On Continuous Principal Series Representation of reductive p-adic groups on p-adic Banach Spaces
  • Welagedara Arachchilage Dhanushka Madumali Welagedara | Olive | Model Selection, Data Splitting for ARMA Time Series and Visualizing Some Bootstrap Confidence Regions
  • Ming Yang | Xiao | Low-rank Models for Tensorial Data in Visual Analysis (Degree is in Computer Science)

Spring 2023

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation
  • Ali Abdullah Algefary | Xu, J. | On the Riccati-Type Diagonal Stability

  • Qasim Alharbi | Schurz | Existence, Uniqueness, Stability, and Continuity of Fourier Series Solutions of Stochastic Wave Equations with Cubic Nonlinearities in 3D

  • Liping Deng | Xiao & Xu, D. | A Research on Automatic Hyperparameter Recommendation via Meta-Learning

  • Yu Jin | Olive | Some Topics Relevant to Actuarial Mathematics

Summer 2022

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation
  • Roshini Samanthi Gallage | Hughes & Kocik | Analysis and Numerical Approximation of Nonlinear Stochastic Differential Equations with Continuously Distributed Delay

  • Herath Mudiyanselage Wiranthe Bandara Herath | Samadi | Dimension Reduction in Multivariate Time Series via Envelope Methods 

  • Rukayya Sani Ibrahim | Samadi  | Tensor Dimension Reduction Methods for Modeling High Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Data

  • Qilun Luo | Xiao & Xu | Tensorial Data Low-Rank Decomposition on Multi-Dimensional Image Data Processing 
  • Tharindu Priyan De Alwis Mahappu Kankanamge | Samadi | Advances on Dimension Reduction for Univariate and Multivariate Time Series

  • Dodamgodage Gihanee Madumalika Senadheera | Calvert | Effective Concept Classes of PAC and PACi Incomparable Degrees, Joins and Embedding of Degrees

  • Wijerathne Mudiyanselage Menake Wijerathne | Choiy | On Supersingular Representations Of GL(2, D) With a Division Algebra D over a p-adic Field

  • Lingling Zhang | Olive | Data Splitting Inference
Masters Graduates | Professors 
  • Sanjuka Madhura Kumara Johana Lemonge | Olive

  • Samira Zaroudi | Samadi

Spring 2022

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation
  • Haile, Mulubrhan | Olive | Inference for Time Series after Variable Selection

Fall 2021

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation
  • Aljurbua, Saleh | Xiao | The Existence of Solutions for Fractional Differential Equations of Order q in (n-1n], with Antiperiodic Boundary Conditions


Summer 2021

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • McKinney, Daina | Olive 

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Rajapaksha, Kosman  | Olive  | Wald Type Tests with the wrong Dispersion Matrix
  • Safari Katesari, Hadi  | Samadi | Bayesian Dynamic Factor Analysis and Copula-Based Models for Mixed Data
  • Thudewaththage, Kalpa Madhawa | Kocik | Classification of Eigenvalues of Octonionic Hermitian Matrices

Spring 2021

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Alanazi, Alie | Omar

 Fall 2020

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Holt, William | Kocik

SUMMER 2020

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Basu, Devjani | Choiy
  • Karimushan, Fareeza | Kocik
  • Roberts, Jeremiah | Ban

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Gunawardana, Lakshika | Earnest | Locally Primitively Universal Forms and the Primitive Counterpart to the Fifteen Theorem
  • Panditharathna, Dinush | Kocik | Spin Network Evaluations and their Asymptotic Behavior

SPRING 2020

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Athapattu, Chaturika | Ban | Parabolically induced Banach space representation of p-adic groups

FALL 2019

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Alnassar, Ibrahim | McSorley

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Lewis, Naama | Bhattacharya | Convex Optimization Techniques Applied to Improving IRT Models

SUMMER 2019

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Chandrasena, Shanika | Kocik
  • Chandrasena, Taniya | Kocik
  • Herath, Wiranthe | Samadi
  • Zhang, Lingling | Olive

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Pathiravasan, Chathurangi | Bhattacharya | Generalized Semiparametric Approach to the Analysis of Variance
  • Rupassara, Upul | Hughes | Joint Exit Time and Place Distribution for Brownian Motion on Riemannian Manifolds

SPRING 2019

Masters Graduates | Professors 

  • Alshammari, Mashael | Olive
  • Senadheera, Gihanee | Calvert

PhD Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Rathnayake, Rasanji | Olive | Inference for some GLMs and Survival Regression Models After Variable Selection

FALL 2018

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Wijerathne, Menake | Choiy

SPRING 2018

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Ranaweera, Chamila | Olive
  • Wang, Handong | Olive
  • Murphy, Charles | Olive
  • Imhoff, Drew | Olive

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Althubiti, Saeed | Schurz | Stochastic Functional Differential Equations with Infinite Memory
  • Liu, Shouzong | D. Xu | Age-Structured Predator - Prey Models
  • Fan, Rong | D. Xu | Random Walk with Absorbing Barriers and Telegraph Equation with Absorbing Boundaries

FALL 2017

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Durig, Rebekah | Kocik
  • Gallage, Roshini | Hughes
  • Kim, Sung-ho | Olive
  • Mahappu DeAlwis, Priyan | Samadi
  • Rajapaksha, Dimuthu | Olive
  • Summers, Porter | Choiy
  • Madhawa, Kalpa | Kocik
  • Ziedzor, Reginald | Samadi

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Alhuraiji, Abdulkarem | Earnest | Coupling of Quadratic Lattices
  • Gamachchige, Tharaka | McSorley | Double-Change Covering Designs with Block Size k=4
  • Gumus, Mehmet | J. Xu | New Results on Matrix Stability
  • Pelawa Watagoda, Lasanthi | Olive | Inference After Variable Selection
  • Rupasinghe, Hasthika | Olive | Bootstrapping Analogs of the One Way Manova Test

Summer 17

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Soule, Patrick | Bhattacharya

SPRING 17

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Bartelsmeyer, Craig | Olive
  • Haile, Mulubrhan | Olive
  • Leitner, Stefan

FALL 2016

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Almaghshi, Mona | Olive
  • Panditharathna, Dinush | McSorley
  • Senarathna, Herath | Sullivan

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Al-Hashimi, Ghazwan | Michael Sullivan | A Zeta Function for Flows with L(-1, -1) Template
  • Alsulaimani, Hamdan | Andrew Earnest | Dubravka Ban | Strict Regularity of Positive Definite Ternary Quadratic Forms

SUMMER 16

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Athapattu, Chathurika | Ban
  • Carr, Andrew | Ban
  • Choden, Kezang | Samadi
  • Gunawardana, Lakshika | McSorley
  • Tram, Heather | Kocik

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Adhikari, Kamal | Sullivan | Realizations of Simple Smale Flows on Three-Manifolds
  • Pathak, Nimishaben | Sullivan | Lyapunov-Type Inequality and Eigenvalue Estimates for Fractional Problems

SPRING 2016

Masters Graduates | Professors

  • Yang, Luke | Olive

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Rajasingam, Prasanthan | Jianhong Xu | On the Numerical Solution of Continuous Coupled Algebraic Riccati Equations

SUMMER 2015

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis
  • Castelli, Vina | Calvert
  • Pathiravasan, Chathurangi | Olive
  • Smith, Alan | McSorley
Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation
  • Alsibiani, Wahidah | Ban | Reducibility of parabolically induced representations
  • Liu, Jun | Xiao | New computational Methods for Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations

SPRING 2015

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis
  • Lightfoot, Ethan | Kocik
Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation
  • Meyer, Nicolas | Earnest | Determination of Quadratic Lattices by Local Structure and Sublattices of Codimension One

FALL 2014

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation
  • Talafha, Abdallah | Shurz | Modified STochastic Sine-Gordon Equation
  • Wang, Xiuquan | Xiao & Reeve | Parameter Estimation in the Advection Diffusion Reaction Model with Mean Occupancy Time and Boundary Flux Approaches

SUMMER 2014

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Callen, Bryan | Xiao
  • Rupassara, Rupassarage Upul | Kocik
  • Walker, Matthew | Schurz

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Almarri, Barakah | Sullivan | Renormalization and *-product of the Horse shoe maps
  • Kottegoda, Yasanthi | Fitzgerald | The Number of Zeros of Linear Recurring Sequences over Finite Fields
  • Peiris, Buddika | Bhattacharya | Constrained Statistical Inference in Regression
  • Siriwardena, Lochana | Hughes | Stochastic Models in Population Dynamics

SPRING 2014

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Alanzi, Ayed | Olive
  • Gamachchige, Tharaka | McSorley
  • Rhoads, David | Pericak-Spector
  • Wiley, Sarah | Olive

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Adatorwovor, Dayana | McSorley | H-Removable Sequences of Graphs
  • Al-Talib, Mohammad | Bhattacharya | Statistical Models Utilizing Dependence Between Variables
  • Yi, Huijun | Bhattacharya | Constrained Statistical Inference When Target and Sample Populations Differ (https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/disertations/870)

FALL 2013

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Mbianda, Olive | McSorley
  • Pfister, Jamie | Pericak-Spector
  • Rajasingam, Prasanthan | Xu, J.

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Boone, Joshua | Fitzgerald | Higher-Order Lucas Sequences and Dickson Polynomials

SUMMER 2013

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Pelawa Watagoda, Lasanthi | Olive
  • Rupasinghe, Hasthika | Olive

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Tosun, Cemile | Fitzgerald | Explicit factorization of generalized cyclotomic polynomials of order 2m3 over a finite field Fq
  • Tosun, Kursad | Schurz | Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Schochastic Models in Mathematical Epidemiology

SPRING 2013

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Johnson, Rebecca | Budzban
  • Martin, Alex | Fitzgerald
  • Spector, Elizabeth | Calvert
  • Zalloum, Abdalrazzaq | Hundley

FALL 2012

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Alhuraiji, Abdulkarem
  • Alsulaimani, Hamdan

SUMMER 2012

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Kemajou, Elisabeth | Mohammed | A Stochastic Delay Model for Pricing Corporate Liabilities

SPRING 2012

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Arnold, Bryan | Ban

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Haynes, Elizabeth | Sullivan | Smale Flows on Three Dimensional Manifolds
  • Hazaimeh, Haziem | Schurz | Stochastic Wave Equations With Cubic Nonlinearities in Two Dimensions
  • Wilathgamuwa, Gayan | Mohammed | Stochastic Functional Differential Equations Driven By Fractional Brownian Motion And Their Generalizations

FALL 2011

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Dorn, Mary | Jeyaratnam
  • Lewis, Naama | Budzban

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Zhang, Jianfeng | Olive | Applications of a Robust Dispersion Estimator

SUMMER 2011

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Katugampola, Udita | Kocik | On Generalized Fractional Integrals and Derivatives

SPRING 2011

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Ceballos, Kristen | 
  • Powers, Joshua | Olive

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Sankhadip, Roy
  • Sancier Barbosa, Flavia | Mohammed | Closing the memory gap in stochastic functional differential equations

FALL 2010

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Caronongan, Laurie-Abigail | Pericak-Spector
  • Field, Brian H. | Xiao
  • Kottegoda, Yasanthi | Fitzgerald
  • Meyer, Nicolas D. | Fitzgerald
  • Rathnayake, Rathnayake Mudiyanselage Rasanji C. | Bhattacharya

Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Anver, Haneef M. | Mugdadi | Mean Hellinger Distance as an Error Criterion in Univariate and Multivariate Kernel Density Estimation
  • Arachchi Appuhaillage, Dharshana | Bhattacharya | Order Restricted Estimation and Tests for Fit in Homogeneous Row-Column Models

SUMMER 2010

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Nave, Kelsey T. | D. Xu
  • Peiris, Thelge Buddika U. | Bhattacharya
  • Siriwardena, Pathiranage L | Hughes

SPRING 2010

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Jin, Yu | Xiao

FALL 2009

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Pleso, Joseph F. | J. Hundley

SUMMER 2009

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Heslar, Amanda N. | Ban

 Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Johnson, Darin | Clark | Topics In Probabilistic Combinatorics
  • Khurram, Alia | Kammler | Reconstruction Of A Univariate Discrete Function Form: The Magnitude of Its Fourier Transform

SPRING 2009

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Haenggi, Jenna C. | Olive
  • Sumant, Sumant | Porter
  • Wang, Xiuquan | Xiao

 Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Ghebremicael, Aman | Wallis | Latin Squares and Applications

2008-2009

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Sumant, Sumant | Porter

 Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • A, Min (Amy) | Xiao | Solvability of Diffusion Models of Insect Movement in Complex Landscapes

2007-2008

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Agudelo, Elmer | Olive
  • Anver, Haneef | Wallis
  • Boone, Joshua | Fitzgerald
  • Hodges, Lori | Ban
  • Mohr, Austin | Porter
  • Ragsdale, Tina | Fitzgerald
  • Rastegar, Reza | J. Xu
  • Vespa, Matthew | Pericak-Spector
  • Wang, Xin | Feinsilver
  • Yu, Xuebo | McSorley

 Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • AbuHassan, Hassan | Olive | Some Transformed Distributions
  • DeSouza, Comlan | Kammler | Periodic Eigenfunctions of the Fourier Transform Operator
  • Lin, Yuan | Xiao | High-Order Finite Difference Methods for Solving Heat Equations
  • Schwartz, Andrew | Clark | Decompositions of Graphs and Trees
  • Teweldemedhin, Amanuel | Mugdadi | Nonparametric Estimators of Mean Residual Life Function
  • Ye, Ping | Bhattacharya | Tests of Symmetry with Ordered Alternatives in Three-Dimensional Contingency Tables

2006-2007

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Bayer, Jessica | Olive
  • Katugampola, Udita | Pericak-Spector
  • McClure, Michael | Budzban
  • Moses, Maisha | Budzban
  • Pant, Mohan | Olive
  • Roy, Sankhadip | Fitzgerald
  • Wilathgamuwa, Gayan | Budzban
  • Yi, Huijun | Jeyaratnam

 Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  •  Marr, Alison | Wallis | Labelings of Directed Graphs

2005-2006

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Adams, Deborah | Yucas
  • Arachchi-Appuhamillage, Suresh | Bhattacharya
  • Bush, John | Wright
  • Fernandez, Arun (Math/ECE) | Wallis
  • Jeter, Jennifer | Mugdadi
  • Namazi, Azita | Kocik
  • Ptukin, Yevgeniy | Kocik
  • Sancier-Barbosa, Flavia | Mohammed
  • Spector, Daniel | Xiao

 Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  •  Chang, Jing | Olive | Resistant Dimension Reduction
  • Huang, Zhongming | Jeyaratnam | Multinomial Change Point Problem
  • Kazi, Haseeb | Neuman | Inequalities and Bounds for Elliptic Integrals

2004-2005

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • A, Min (Amy) | Mugdadi
  • Al-Mohy, Awad | Fitzgerald
  • El-Homani, Abdellatif | Kocik
  • Lamichhane, Rajan | Olive
  • Rawal, Bhupendra | Pericak-Spector

2003-2004

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Abu-Algassab, Yahia | Xiao
  • Dasgupta, Mahua | Bhattacharya
  • DeSouza, Comlan | Kammler
  • Gill, James | Budzban
  • Harbison, Jeri | Fitzgerald
  • Huffman, Erin | Neuman
  • Ibrahim, Ashraf | Feinsilver
  • Lin, Yuan | Xiao
  • Paliwal, Veena | Mohammed
  • Schneider, Angie | Budzban
  • Teweldemedhin, Amanuel | Xiao
  • Wiscons, Josh | Fitzgerald
  • Yates, Andy | Wallis

 Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  •  Hjouj, Fawaz | Kammler | Identification of Translated and Rotated Structures from Corresponding Projections
  • Ibrahim, Haslinda | Wallis | The Non-existence of Nearly Kirkman Triple System of Order 12
  • Staples, George | Feinsilver | Quaternionic White Noise Analysis

2002-2003

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • Elliott, Christena | Wright
  • Ghebregiorgis, Ghideon | Mugdadi
  • Hodis, Flaviu Adrian | Olive
  • Huang, Shou-Chien | Porter
  • Khurram, Alia | Kammler
  • Lahrech, Abdelmounaim | Mugdadi
  • Li, Yongxing | Bhattacharya
  • Tesfamicael, Mussie | Olive
  • Vines, Kirsty | Parker
  • Wheeler, Casey | Bhattacharya

 Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  • Almanassra, Mahmoud | Jeyaratnam | Estimation of Survival and cumulative-Hazard Functions of Restricted Quality Adjusted Lifetime
  • McCreight, Jeff | Kammler | Generalized Fourier Transforms

2001-2002

Masters Graduates | Professors | Master's Thesis

  • El-Sadat, Sherif | Mugdadi
  • Ghebremicael, Aman | Wallis
  • Kakade, Jayawant | Wallis
  • Kazi, Haseeb | Neuman
  • Madsen, Del | Patula
  • Munthali, Emmie | Mugdadi
  • Pagadala, Sirisha | Neuman
  • Schwander, Karen | Foster (Pol.Sci/Math)

 Ph.D. Graduates | Professors | Dissertation

  •  Pogge, James Todd | H. Kim | Residual Automorphic Representations of Symplectic Groups
  • Wang, Jiantian | Jeyaratnam | Estimation of Quality Adjusted Survival Function and Mean Lifetime Medical Cost