4. Student Advising

At present, I am advising

• Alan Thomas who is a Ph.D. student in Mathematical Sciences (expected graduation Spring, 2006). Alan is working on optical tomography inverse problem using a radiative transport model with spatially varying refractive index.
• co-Advising Saugath Lahiri who is a MS student in Environmental Engineering (expected graduation Fall, 2005). Saugath is working on fingerprinting of natural organic matter using model reduction techniques such as principle component analysis, factor analysis, and least statistically independent basis using wavelets.
• Sagar Shah who is an Honors student majoring in Biological Sciences and minoring in Mathematical Sciences (expected graduation Spring, 2006). Sagar is studying biomedical diagnostic applications of diffusion wave tomography.

In the past, I have advised

• Zhidian Du who is a PhD student in Computer Science. Zhidian worked on simulating photon transport in broadband optical tomography.
• John Palastro who was an Honors student in Mathematical Sciences now a PhD student at the University of Maryland. John studied mathematical modeling and simulations of plasma dynamics using monte-carlo methods.
• Dhan Nagarajan who was a MS student in Electrical Engineering now a PhD student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Nagarajan worked on finite element simulations of photon transport in biological tissue using FEMLAB.

Furthermore, I served as a committee member of four PhD and three MS students. In particular, I was very much involved with the thesis of Liu Guibao (PhD in Economics) who wrote his dissertation on mathematical modeling of stock market using a cascade diffusion model.