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Graduates of the Norbert Wiener Center Many of the graduates of the Norbert Wiener Center go on to do great things. We highlight some of our high-achieving recent graduates here. Addison Bohannon Graduation: May 2019 Advisor: Radu Balan Thesis Title: Stochastic Processes On Graphs: Learning Representations and Applications Where is he now? Mathematician at Army Research Labroratory James Murphy Graduation: May 2015 Advisors: John Benedetto and Wojciech Czaja Thesis Title: Anisotropic Harmonic Analysis and Integration of Remotely Sensed Data Where is he now? Assistant Professor at Tufts University Karamatou Yacoubou Djima Graduation: May 2015 Advisor: Wojciech Czaja Thesis Title: Multiscale analysis and diffusion semigroups with application Where is she now? Assistant Professor at Amherst College Paul Koprowski Graduation: May 2015 Advisor: John Benedetto Thesis Title: Finite Frames and Graph Theoretic Uncertainty Principles Where is he now? Data Scientist at Applied Technology Group, LLC

Travis Andrews Graduation: May 2014 Advisor: John Benedetto Thesis Title: Frame Multiplication Theory for Vector-valued Harmonic Analysis Where is he now? Department of Defense

Alex Cloninger Graduation: May 2014 Advisors: John Benedetto and Wojciech Czaja Thesis Title: Exploiting Data-Dependent Structure for Improving Sensor Acquisition and Integration Analysis Where is he now? Assistant Professor at UC San Diego

Timothy Doster Graduation: May 2014 Advisors: John Benedetto and Wojciech Czaja Thesis Title: Harmonic Analysis Inspired Data Fusion for Applications in Remote Sensing Where is he now? Senior Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Clare Wickman Graduation: May 2014 Advisor: Kasso Okoudjou Thesis Title: An Optimal Transport Approach to Some Problems in Frame Theory Where is she now? Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Vinodh Rajapakse Graduation: May 2013 Advisors: Wojciech Czaja Thesis Title: Data Representation for Learning and Information Fusion in Bioinformatics Where is he now? Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Developmental Therapeutics Branch, National Cancer Institute

Rongrong Wang Graduation: May 2013 Advisors: John Benedetto and Wojciech Czaja Thesis Title: Global geometric conditions on sensing matrices for the success of L1 minimization algorithm Where is she now? Assistant Professor at Michigan State university

Bryant Angelos Graduation: May 2013 Advisor: Radu Balan Thesis Title: An Optimal Transport Approach to Some Problems in Frame Theory Where is he now? Assistant Trader at Jane Street Capital

• Alfredo Nava-Tudela

  Graduation: May 2012
  Advisor: John Benedetto
  Thesis Title:
  Image representation and compression via sparse solutions of systems of linear equations
  Where is he now?
  Director of Scientific Computing for IPST and Scientific Development Officer for the Norbert Wiener Center

• Avner Halevy

  Graduation: May 2011
  Advisor: John Benedetto and Wojciech Czaja
  Thesis Title:
  Extensions of Laplacian eigenmaps for manifold learning
  Where is he now?
  Assistant Professor at Washington and Lee University

• Nathaniel Strawn

  Graduation: May 2011
  Advisor: John Benedetto and Radu Balan
  Thesis Title:
  Geometric structures and optimization on finite frames
  Where is he now?
  Assistant Professor at Georgetown University
  

• Enrico Au-Yeung

  Graduation: May 2011
  Advisor: John Benedetto
  Thesis Title:
  Balayage of Fourier transforms and the theory of frames
  Where is he now?
  Associate Professor at DePaul University

• Christopher Flake

  Graduation: May 2010
  Advisor: John Benedetto and Wojciech Czaja
  Thesis Title:
  The multiplicative Zak transform, dimension reduction, and wavelet analysis of LIDAR data
  Where is he now?
  Lead Electrical Engineer at the MITRE Corporation

• Emily King

  Graduation: May 2009
  Advisor: John Benedetto and Wojciech Czaja
  Thesis Title:
  Wavelet and frame theory: frame bound gaps, generalized shearlets, Grassmannian fusion frames, and p-adic wavelets
  Where is she now?
  Professor at Zentrum für Technomathematik

• Matthew Hirn

  Graduation: May 2009
  Advisor: John Benedetto and Kasso Okoudjou
  Thesis Title:
  Enumeration of harmonic frames and frame based dimension reduction
  Where is he now?
  Assistant Professor at Michigan State University

• David Widemann

  Graduation: May 2008
  Advisor: John Benedetto and Wojciech Czaja
  Thesis Title:
  Dimensionality reduction for hyperspectral data
  Where is he now?
  Machine Learning Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• Onur Oktay

  Graduation: May 2007
  Advisor: John Benedetto
  Thesis Title:
  Frame quantization theory and equiangular tight frames
  Where is he now?
  Postdoctoral Fellow at Jacobs University Bremen

• Somantika Datta

  Graduation: May 2007
  Advisor: John Benedetto
  Thesis Title:
  Wiener's Generalized Harmonic Analysis and waveform design
  Where is she now?
  Assistant Professor at University of Idaho

• Aram Tangboondouangjit

  Graduation: May 2006
  Advisor: John Benedetto
  Thesis Title:
  Sigma-Delta quantization: number theoretic aspects of refining error estimates
  Where is he now?
  Professor at Mahidol University

• Abdelkrim Bourouihiya

  Graduation: May 2006
  Advisor: John Benedetto
  Thesis Title:
  Beurling weighted spaces, product-convolution operators, and the tensor product of frames
  Where is he now?
  Associate Professor at Nova Southeastern University

• Juan Romero

  Graduation: May 2005
  Advisor: John Benedetto
  Thesis Title:
  Generalized multiresolution analysis: construction and measure theoretic characterization
  Where is he now?
  Professor University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

• Andrew Kebo

  Graduation: May 2005
  Advisor: John Benedetto
  Thesis Title:
  Quantum detection and finite frames
  Where is he now?
  Department of Defense

• Joseph Kolesar

  Graduation: May 2004
  Advisor: John Benedetto
  Thesis Title:
  Sigma-Delta modulation and correlation criteria for the construction of finite frames arising in communication theory
  Where is he now?
  SAGE-Solutions Inc.