Alumni

What follows is an incomplete list of those who received graduate degrees from the Department of Applied Mathematics. Applied Math alumni can make any additions or corrections using the alumni information form.

Bale, Brandon G. (MS, 2004; PhD, 2008)

Advisor:	J. Nathan Kutz
Dissertation:	Modeling the stability and dynamics of mode-locked fiber +lasers
Address:	Nonlinear Photonics Group Aston University Aston Triangle Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
Phone:	44-0121-204-3486
E-mail:	b.bale@aston.ac.uk

Bale, Derek S. (PhD, 2002)

Advisor:	Randy LeVeque
Dissertation:	Wave Propagation Algorithms on Curved Manifolds with Applications to Relativistic Hydrodynamics
Address:	eV Microelectronics 373 Saxonburg Blvd. Saxonburg, PA 16056
Phone:	724-352-6358
E-mail:	derek.bale@evmicroelectronics.com

Beard, Daniel A. (MS, 1995)

Address:

Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI 53226

Beyer, Richard P. (PhD, 1989)

Advisor:	R. J. LeVeque
Dissertation:	A Computational Model of the Cochlea using the Immersed Boundary Method
Address:	University of Washington Env. & Occ. Health Sci., Box 354695 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, # 100 Seattle, WA 98105-6099
Phone:	206-616-7378
E-mail:	dbeyer@u.washington.edu

Bosley, David L. (PhD, 1989)

Advisor:	J. Kevorkian
Dissertation:	Transient and sustained resonance in very slowly varying oscillatory Hamiltonian systems with applications to free electron lasers.
Address:	Qwest Communications Boulder, Co
E-mail:	dbosley @gamil.com

Brown, Margaret

Advisor:	Dr. Ka Kit Tung
Address:	Microvision 19910 North Creek Parkway PO Box 3008 Bothell WA 98011
Phone:	425-415-6779
E-mail:	Margaret_Brown@mvis.com

Bun, Yeng (PhD, 1991)

Advisor:	W. O. Criminale
Address:	MathSoft 1700 Westlake Ave N Suite 500 Seattle, WA 98109
E-mail:	yeng@u.washington.edu

Chen, George H-G. (PhD, 1994)

Advisor:	R. T. Rockafellar
Address:	Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052
Phone:	(206) 703-7501
E-mail:	gchen@microsoft.com

Coble, Scott (MS, 1982; PhD, 1990)

Advisor:	Juris Vagners
Dissertation:	Automatic Control of Extracorporeal Blood Oxygenation
Address:	Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Gonzaga University, MSC 2615 Spokane, WA 99258
Phone:	509-323-6046
E-mail:	coble@gonzaga.edu

Cook, Julian (PhD, 1994)

Address:	Department of Biomathematics UCLA School of Medicine Box 951766 10833 Le Conte Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90095-1766
E-mail:	jcook@kiwi.biomath.medsch.ucla.edu

Dolven, Eric (PhD, 2002)

Advisor:	Harry Yeh
Address:	Cray Inc. 411 1st Ave. S. Suite 600 Seattle, WA 98104-2860
Phone:	206-701-2112
E-mail:	dolven@cray.com

Donavan, Maggie (MS, 1995)

Ebrahim, Assad (MS, 2001)

E-mail:

assad.ebrahim@alum.swarthmore.edu

Ebrahimi, Yaghoob S. (PhD, 1980)

Advisor:	Juris Vagners
Dissertation:	Minimun Variance Reduced order Estimation from Pontryagin Minimum Principle
Phone:	206-543-7748
E-mail:	yaghoobe@aa.washington.edu

Estefan, Jeff (MS, 1989)

Phone:	253-887-9182
E-mail:	jestefan@juno.com

Fang, Ming (PhD, 1995)

Address:	Department of Chemistry Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone:	(609) 258-6183
E-mail:	mfang@handel.princeton.edu

Friedman, Jacques A. (MS, 1995)

Address:	AQR Capital Management 2 Greenwich Plaza, 3rd Flr Greenwich, CT 06830
E-mail:	jacques@aqr.com

Chris L. Frenzen (PhD, 1982)

Advisor:	J. Kevorkian
Dissertation:	Multiple variable expansions for interacting weakly nonlinear waves; applications to shallow water surface waves with variable mean shear and bottom topography.
Address:	Department of Mathematics Naval Postgraduate School Montery, CA
E-mail:	cfrenzen @nps.edu

Ganguly, Kishor (PhD, 2001)

George, David (PhD, 2006)

Advisor:	Randy LeVeque
Dissertation:	Finite Volume Methods and Adaptive Refinement for Tsunami Propagation and Inundation
Address:	University of Utah Department of Mathematics 155 South 1400 East, JWB 233 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090
E-mail:	george@math.utah.edu

Grant, Charles E. (MS, 2003)

E-mail:

cegrant@u.washington.edu

Gomez, Miguel J. (MS, 2002; PhD, 2008)

Advisor:	Anne Greenbaum
Dissertation:	Optimization-based Analysis of Rigid Mechanical Systems with Unilateral Contact and Kinetic Friction
Address:	Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA 98052
Phone:	(425) 538-3924
E-mail:	migomez@microsoft.com

Hamel, Owen (MS, 1992)

Phone:	(206) 860-3481
E-mail:	owen.hamel@noaa.gov

Hsu, Viktoria R.T. (MS, 1999; PhD, 2004)

Advisor:	Hong Qian
Address:	University of Utah Department of Mathematics 155 South 1400 East, JWB 233 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090
Phone:	801-581-8340
E-mail:	krupp@amath.washington.edu

Jackson, Trachette (MS, 1996; PhD, 1998)

Advisor:	James D. Murray, FRS
Dissertation:	Mathematical Models of Two-Step Cancer Chemotherapy
Address:	University of Michigan Department of Mathematics 525 E. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109
E-mail:	tjacks@umich.edu

Kim, Arnold

Address:	Department of Applied Mathematics 450 Serra Mall Building 380 Stanford University
E-mail:	adkim@math.stanford.edu

Knaub, Karl R. (MS, 1998; PhD, 2001)

Advisor:	Robert E. O'Malley, Jr.
Dissertation:	On the Asymptotic Behavior of Internal Layer Solutions of Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Equations
Address:	11319 Little Patuxent Parkway Apt 211 Columbia, MD 21044-2933
Phone:	410-884-9209
E-mail:	kknaub@alum.swarthmore.edu

Kulesa, Paul (PhD, 1995)

Advisor:	James D Murray, FRS
Dissertation:	Mathematical modeling of embryonic teeth formation and pattern
Address:	Associate Professor and Dir of Imaging Stowers Institute for Medical Research 1000 E. 50th St Kansas City, MO 64110
Phone:	816-926-4453
E-mail:	pmk@stowers.org

Kusiak, Steve (PhD, 2003)

Advisor:	John Sylvester
Dissertation:	The Scattering Support and the Inverse Scattering Problem at Fixed Frequency
Address:	Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees Unite de Mathematiques Appliquees 32 Boulevard Victor 75739 Paris, France
E-mail:	kusiak@ensta.fr

Laforgue, Jacques (PhD, 1994)

Address:	Departamento de Matematicas Universidad De Oriente, Apartado 245 Cumana 6101A, Venezuela
E-mail:	laforgue@cumana.sucre.udo.edu.ve

Lederer, Nicholas (MS, 2006)

Address:	Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington 1013 NE 40th Street Box 355640 Seattle, WA 98105-6698
Phone:	206-543-1268
E-mail:	lederer@u.washington.edu

Lelong, Pascale (PhD, 1989)

Address:	NW Research Associates P.O. Box 3027 Bellevue, WA 98009-3027
Phone:	(425) 644-9660 x.336
E-mail:	pascale@nwra.com

Li, Hon K. (PhD, 1984)

Advisor:	J. Kevorkian
Dissertation:	I. Resonant interactions for nearly periodic weakly nonlinear waves. II. Resonant modal interactions and adiabatic invariance for a nonlinear wave equation in a variable domain.
E-mail:	hli@sccd.ctc.edu

Li, Yi P. (PhD, 1987)

Advisor:	J. Kevorkian
Dissertation:	Free electron lasers with variable parameter wigglers, a strictly nonlinear oscillator with slowly varying parmeters
Address:	Department of Mathematics University of Macau, Macau, China
E-mail:	ypli@umac.mo

Li, Zhilin (PhD, 1994)

Advisor:	Randy J. LeVeque
Dissertation:	The immersed interface method
Address:	Department of Mathematics North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8205
Phone:	919-515-3210
E-mail:	zhilin@math.ncsu.edu

Luke, Russell (PhD, 2001)

Advisor:	Jim Burke
Dissertation:	Analysis of Optical Wavefront Reconstruction and Deconvolution in Adaptive Optics
Address:	Department of Mathematics Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6 CANADA
Phone:	604-224-3569
E-mail:	rluke(at)cecm(dot)sfu(dot)ca

Mannix Jr., C. E. (PhD, 1993)

Dissertation:

An investigation of numerical methods applicable to a certain class of singular integral equations

Manoussaki, Daphne (PhD, 1996)

Advisor:	James D. Murray
Dissertation:	Modelling the Formation of Vascular Networks in Vitro
Address:	Department of Mathematics 1326 Stevenson Center Nashville, TN 37212

Mansfield, Ed (MS, 1981; PhD, 1984)

Advisor:	Juris Vagners
Address:	PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Practice Leader, Economics and Statistics Consulting Suite 700 - 250 Howe Street Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 3S7
Phone:	(604)-806-7794
E-mail:	edward.j.mansfield@ca.pwc.com

Marshall, Alan (MS, 1997)

Address:	6132 127th Place NE Bellevue, Washington 98006
Phone:	206-644-1621

Martin, Mark A. (PhD, 2000)

Advisor:	Mark Kot
Dissertation:	The Influence of Seasonal and Climatic Environmental Changes on Plankton in the Marine Mixed Layer

Maschhoff, Kristi (PhD, 1994)

Address:	Tera Computer Company 2815 Eastlake Avenue East Seattle, WA 98102-3027
Phone:	(206) 490-2041
E-mail:	kristyn@tera.com

Sarah Massengill (Garrod) (MS, 2000)

Address:	Green River Community College 12401 SE 320th St Auburn WA 98092
E-mail:	smassengill@greenriver.edu

Mell, Ruddy (PhD, 1994)

Address:	Bldg 224, Rm A345 Building and Fire Research Lab National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899
Phone:	(301) 975-6690
E-mail:	ruddy@cam.nist.gov

Merrill, Lynne P. (MS, 1983)

Address:	14910 SE 183rd St. Renton, WA 98058
Phone:	253-657-3985
E-mail:	Lynne.P.Merrill@Boeing.com

Milac, Tom (PhD, 1995)

Address:	University of Washington Department of Applied Mathematics Box 352420 Seattle, WA 98195-2420
Phone:	(206) 543-5493
E-mail:	milac@amath.washington.edu

Moskowitz, Benjamin (MS, 1998; PhD, 2000)

Advisor:	Chris Bretherton
Dissertation:	An Analysis of Frictional Feedback in the Madden Julian Oscillation
Address:	7359 33rd Ave NE Seattle, WA 98115
Phone:	206-523-7069
E-mail:	bmmoskow@amath.washington.edu

Muleshkov, Angel (MS, 1986; PhD, 1988)

Advisor:	Chris Bretherton
Dissertation:	Analytical and Numerical Determination of Steady Seepage Towards Vertical Cuts
Address:	University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Mathematical Sciences 4020 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4020
Phone:	(702) 597-5020
E-mail:	muleshko@nevada.edu

Nelson, Patrick (PhD, 1998)

Advisor:	Professor James D. Murray
Dissertation:	Mathematical models of HIV Pathogenesis and Immunology
Address:	Duke University Department of Mathematics
Phone:	(919) 660-2850
E-mail:	pnelson@math.duke.edu

Neubert, Michael (PhD, 1994)

Address:	Biology Department, MS #34 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543-1049
E-mail:	mneubert@whoi.edu

Orlando, Wendell T. (PhD, 1996)

Address:	NCAR/ASP P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Phone:	303-497-1666
E-mail:	welch@ucar.edu

Pernarowski, Mark (PhD, 1990)

Advisor:	J. Kevorkian, and Robert M. Miura
Dissertation:	The mathematical analysis of bursting electrical activity in pancreatic beta cells.
Address:	Department of Mathematics University of Montana
E-mail:	pernarow@math.montana.edu

Roberts, Nathan (MS, 1999)

Address:	The Boeing Company
Phone:	425-266-0634
E-mail:	nathan.a.roberts@boeing.com

Russ Rockne (MS, 2006)

E-mail:

rockne at u.washington.edu

Salinger, David H. (PhD, 1997)

Address:	Amgen, Inc. - Seattle
E-mail:	dhsalinger@msn.com

Jason Slemons (MS, 2004; PhD, 2008)

Advisor:	Loyce Adams, Beresford Parlett
Dissertation:	Towards the Solution of the Eigenproblem; Nonsymmetric Tridiagonal Matrices
Address:	901 Fifth Ave Suite 1000 Seattle, WA 98164 USA
E-mail:	jason.slemons@gmail.com

Srinivasan, Radhakrishnan (PhD, 1990)

Advisor:	J. Kevorkian
Dissertation:	Asymptotic solution of the weakly nonlinear Scroedinger equation with variable coefficients

Stephens, Kurt (MS, 1994)

E-mail:

kurt.cubbage@us.ing.com

Stern, L. G. "Ted" (PhD, 1996)

Advisor:	Randall J. LeVeque
Dissertation:	An Explicitly Conservative Method for Time-Accurate Solution of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations on Embedded Chimera Grids
Address:	The Boeing Company PO Box 3707 MC 67-LF Seattle, WA 98124-2207
Phone:	(425) 234-1802
E-mail:	ted.l.stern@boeing.com

Stevens, David (PhD, 1995)

Address:	L-103, LLNL PO Box 808 Livermore, CA 94551
Phone:	(925) 422-7649
Fax:	(925) 423-5167
E-mail:	stevens9@llnl.gov

Stockman, Lynne Marie (MS, 1986)

Address:

Astronomy Unit School of Mathematical Sciences Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS England

Stollnitz, Eric (Ph.D., 1998)

Advisor:	David Salesin and Loyce Adams
Dissertation:	Reproducing Color Images with Custom Inks
Address:	Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052
E-mail:	ericsto(at)microsoft(dot)com

Swanson, Kristin R. (MS, 1998; PhD, 1999)

Advisor:	J. D. Murray, FRS
Dissertation:	Mathematical Modeling of the Growth and Control of Tumors
Address:	Department of Pathology, Laboratory of Neuropathology University of Washington, Box 359791 325-9th Avenue, Harborview Medical Center Seattle, WA
Phone:	206-221-6577
E-mail:	swanson@amath.washington.edu

Thomas, Wendy E. (MS, 2003)

Address:

Department of Bioengineering University of Washington Box 351721 Seattle WA 98195

Thompson, Christopher J. (PhD, 1998)

E-mail:

thompson@atmos.washington.edu

Tyson, Rebecca (PhD, 1996)

Advisor:	J. D. Murray
Dissertation:	Pattern formation by E.coli and Salmonella typhimurium - Mathematical and numerical investigation of a biological phenomenon
Address:	Instructional Center Box 355650 University of Washington Seattle, WA, 98195
Phone:	(206) 543-7047
E-mail:	tysonrc@saul.u.washington.edu

Wang, Lei (PhD, 1995)

Advisor:	J. Kevorkian
Dissertation:	Asymptotic analysis of a class of three-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems near stable equilibria.
Address:	Seagate Technology Minneapolis, Minnesota

Watson, Cliff (MS, 1994)

Address:	Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052
E-mail:	cliffwa@microsoft.com

White, Jane (PhD, 1995)

David B. Williams (MS, 1999; PhD, 2005)

Advisor:	Robert E. O'Malley, Jr.
Dissertation:	Solving Singular Perturbation Problems: An Amplitude Equation Approach
Address:	Clayton State University Department of Mathematics 2000 Clayton State Blvd. Morrow, GA 30260
E-mail:	davidwilliams {at} clayton {dot} edu

Wunsch, Donald C. II (MS, 1987)

Address:

M.K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Prof. of Computer Engineering 131 EECH University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla MO 65409

Yang, Zhiyun (PhD, 1996)

Advisor:	Loyce Adams
Address:	5316 Schuler St Houston, TX 77007 USA
E-mail:	old_bug@hotmail.com

Darryl Yong (PhD, 2000)

Advisor:	Kevorkian
Address:	Harvey Mudd College 301 E Platt Blvd Claremont, CA 91711
Phone:	(909) 607-2844
E-mail:	dyong@hmc.edu

Young-Hopen, Cynthia (PhD, 1996)

Advisor:	Akira Ishimaru
Dissertation:	Broadening of Gaussian Pulses Propagating in Weak Optical Turbulence
Address:	Department of Mathematics University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816
Phone:	(407) 823-5987
E-mail:	chopen@mail.ucf.edu

Yu, Jun (PhD, 1988)

Advisor:	J. Kevorkian
Dissertation:	Passage through the critical Froude number for shallow water waves over a variable bottom
Address:	Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont
E-mail:	jun@cems.uvm.edu

Zhang, Chaoming (PhD, 1996)

Address:	Western Geophysical 10001 Richmond Ave. Houston, TX 77042
Phone:	(713) 689-5785
Fax:	(713) 689-5757
E-mail:	chaoming.zhang@waii.com

Zhu, Mei (PhD, 1995)

Address:	Mathematics Department Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, Washington 98447
Phone:	(253) 535-7404
E-mail:	zhuma@PLU.edu