Alumni Success Stories

Joshua Abston - BS Applied Mathematics, 2021

Joshua has been accepted into the Masters program in Computational Applied Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Gibson Leavitt - BS Environmental Science / Applied Mathematics, 2020

Gibson has been accepted into a Ph.D. program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he will be studying with Alberto Scotti working on turbulent boundary layer modeling. Since graduating in May, he has been working for the US Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, modeling nearshore hydrodynamics and sediment transport.

Cole Foster - BS Engineering / Applied Mathematics, 2020

Cole has not traveled too far as he started his Ph.D. journey at Brown University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been awarded a full fellowship and will be working in the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems  (LEMS) in the area of computer vision. Elizabeth Gilchrist - BS Biology / Applied Mathematics, 2019

Elizabeth Gilchrist - BS Biology / Applied Mathematics, 2019

Elizabeth was awarded a full fellowship to Washington State University, where she is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Applied Mathematics. She is currently a TA for undergraduate math courses and will begin her research.

Kaia Lindberg - BS Mathematics, 2019

I am working at Liberty Mutual Insurance in Boston, MA in the analytics development program. This one year rotational program includes trainings, 3 3-month rotations, and other projects to build technical, analytical, and strategic skills. I’m currently in my first rotation in Claims Analytics where I’m building an automated Power BI report to monitor productivity and customer satisfaction data for first notice of loss calls. I’m also working on a project analyzing loss frequency trends in Maryland, Kentucky, and West Virginia and making recommendations to improve profitability in these states.

Tyler Simmons - BS Marine Biology / Applied Mathematics, 2019

Tyler is attending the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland Institute of Physical Science and Technology Biophysics and has been awarded a full fellowship and assistantship.

Andrew DelSanto - BS Engineering / Applied Mathematics, 2018

Andrew received a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in January 2021. He will continue in the Civil  Engineering Ph.D. program with a full fellowship to support his studies. He is studying the effect of climate change (frequency and severity) on extreme hydrological events (floods and droughts) using machine learning techniques.

Hien Ngo - BS Applied Mathematics / Biology, 2018

Hein received a full fellowship to Boston University, where she is pursuing a Masters degree in Mathematics.

Kangi Chen - BS Biology / Applied Mathematics, 2018

Kangi is in his first year of the Masters degree program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Southern California.

Qiuyang Deng - BS Applied Mathematics, 2017

I am studying at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, learning game theory and optimization. There are two terms for teaching courses and a summer term for writing a dissertation paper. Six courses are required and I chose: Game Theory I, Algorithms and Computation, Continuous Time Optimization, Games of Incomplete Information, Fundamentals of Operational Research, and Mathematical Optimization. My dissertation paper is focused on the game theory with incomplete information, the myopic equilibrium, which is a new equilibrium in Game Theory studied by my supervisor and my working area is primarily to research more applications for this equilibrium. I will graduate with a Masters degree in Operations Research (Linear Programming) in August, 2018.

Jill Resh - BS Applied Mathematics / Graphic Design Communications, 2016

Jill is currently working for the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington, DC.

Hy Dinh - BS Mathematics / BS Mechanical Engineering, 2015

I am a third year graduate student at Tufts University. I am studying the mass transport of supercritical carbon dioxide drying of aerogel. Aerogels are mesoporous materials that have unique properties for applications such as thermal insulation and plastic replacement. However, one of the primary obstacles in integrating and commercializing aerogel is the expensive production costs, specifically the drying process. My research focuses on modeling the drying kinetics analytically and measuring empirical data of the drying fluid properties to minimize cost and optimize energy consumption. I hope that this research will further contribute to the understanding and advancement of aerogel manufacture and supercritical drying.

Jane Pleskunas (Pellegren) - BS Mathematics, 2011

I graduated from Boston University School of Public Health in May 2015 with a concentration in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Throughout my graduate school tenure, I had the opportunity to develop my research skills further across a wide variety of topics including examining chronic traumatic encephalopathy exposures in NFL players, exploring a link between latent tuberculosis infection and body mass index values in the United States, as well as publishing a collaborative manuscript in the American Journal of Public Health examining firearm homicide rates in the United States. In addition to academics, I had the opportunity to work at Novartis Vaccines in the department of Global Medical Affairs helping to manage the third party communications to ensure the medical and epidemiologic accuracy. I am a Senior Public Health Epidemiologist at the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families.

Karishma Silva - Transfer, May 2011

Since graduating from the Master's in Science in Economics program at the London School of Economics, I moved to Malawi to work as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. I now work in education policy as a consultant for the World Bank. One of the key projects I'm working on is the Malawi Education Sector Improvement Project, which is a $44.9 million project funded by the Global Partnership for Education. My work mainly focuses on implementation, policy development and impact evaluation.

Elizabeth Morgan (Silva) - BS Mathematics, 2009

My current job title is a Research Scientist II within the NYS Department of Health. I’m working in a Bureau handling the development and oversight of the NYS All Payer Database. This database will contain health care claims data from insurance carriers, health plans, third-party administrators, pharmacy benefit managers, Medicaid and Medicare in order to support research, management, evaluation, and analysis of the NYS health care system (especially in the monitoring of systemic efforts to reduce health care costs, and improve care quality and population health). Because this is a new and developing bureau my role is ever changing. The main focus of my position currently is to perform research, evaluation and analysis of these raw datasets as I work with our team on building a data model synthesizing these data streams to be utilized by other DOH researchers. It also includes responsibility for developing useful reports to consistently provide feedback on the volume, content, and quality of claims data being received from insurers. As this model becomes more defined my role will shift towards researching, developing and testing health care quality measures and provider assessment guidelines for APD dashboard designs which will be maintained by a contractor.