The University of Vermont Graduate Program in Mathematics and Statistics is a vibrant community, valuing high-quality interactions between individuals while embracing the best uses of technology to encourage the development of well-prepared, well-rounded mathematicians and statisticians who will make important contributions to society as individuals and as team members.
PhD Graduates
| Name | Degree/Year | Thesis | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Reagan | PhD - 2017 | "Towards a science of human stories: using sentient analysis and emotional arcs to understand the building blocks of complex social systems" | Data Scientist at MassMutual Insurance |
| Emily Cody | PhD - 2017 | "Mathematical modeling of public opinion using traditional and social media" | Data Scientist at Adobe |
| Jake Williams | PhD - 2015 | "Lexical mechanics: partitions, mixtures, and context" | Faculty in Information Science at Drexel University |
| Eitan Pechenick | PhD - 2015 | "Exploring the google books corpus: an information theoretic approach to linguistic evolution" | Faculty at Maine School of Science & Mathematics |
| Nicholas Allgaier | PhD - 2014 | "Reverse engineering the human brain: an evolutionary computation approach to the analysis of fMRI" | Faculty in Psychiatry at UVM |
| Catherine Bliss | PhD - 2014 | "Description, prediction, and evolution of a large, dynamic network from incomplete data." | Faculty in Mathematics at UVM |
MS Graduates
| Name | Degree/Year | Thesis | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Dewhurst | MS - 2018 | "Some results on a class of functional optimization problems" | PhD Student at UVM |
| Ryan Gallagher | MS - 2017 | "Disentangling discourse: networks, entropy, and social movements" | PhD Student at MIT |
| Morgan Frank | MS - 2014 | "Standing swells surveyed showing surprisingly stable solutions for the Lorenz '96 model" | PhD Student at MIT |
| Michael Foley | MS - 2014 | "An exploratory statistical analysis of NASDAQ-provided trade data" | PhD Student at Northeastern |
| Kameron Harris | MS - 2012 | "On-off threshold models of social behavior" | Postdoc at University of Washington |
| Ross Lieb-Lappen | MS - 2010 | "Aggressive shadowing of a low-dimensional model of atmospheric dynamics" | Faculty at Vermont Technical College |
Undergraduates
| Name | Degree/Year | Thesis | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sven McCall | BS - 2018 | "Langrangian cohort structures: a climatological look" | Data Scientist at Apple |
| Brenden Whitney | BS - 2017 | "Categorizing snow depth trends in Vermont with Singular Value Decomposition" | MS Student at UVM |
| Dilan Kiley | BS - 2014 | "Characterizing the shapes of collective attention using social media" | Data Scientist at Chobanian Group |
| Darcy Glenn | BS - 2013 | Characterizing weather in a thermosyphon, an atmosphere that hangs on a wall" | Environmental Analyst at Park City Municipal Corporation |
| Ashley McKhann | BS - 2011 | "Modeling chaotic convection: data vs physics" | Biostatician at Harvard |
| Kameron Harris | BS - 2009 | "Predicting climate regime change in chaotic convection" | Postdoc at University of Washington |