Other the years, many students and faculty have passed through my circle (or I through theirs). Here is a list of the students who have passed through my group at WSU , either as students that spent significant time with members of my group, or students that had me on their committee or both. For a complete list of students including those that I interacted with while at Los Alamos, see my current CV on my page. (The picture above is my research group from the summer of 2007, at Los Alamos. From let to right, the names (together with where they are now at) is Djamila Aouda (Head of the Computer Vision, Imaging and Machine Intelligence (CVI2) Research Group at SnT, University of Luxembourg), Kree Cole-McLaughlin (was at Google, now CTO at Alltold in Salt Lake), David Bolme (ORNL), Bill Allard (Professor Emeritus at Duke University), KRV, Abhishek Bhattacharya (professor at Indian Statistical Institute), William Meyerson (Principal Software Engineer at SGSS), and Simon Morgan (Industry, somewhere in the UK))
Keith Clawson: was a student of mine that moved to industry without finishing his dissertation. He was at Palantir Technologies, then Deepwatch and is now at Dacha Ventures all in the Seattle, Washington general area.
Josh Cruz: Was a student of mine that ended up working on some ideas in my area of expertise in his undegraduate thesis that was directed by Bala Krishnamoorthy. He finished a PhD in Mathematics at Duke University.
Charles Diako: was an excellent student in food science that also took my mathematical data mining class and ended up using some of he ideas in his dissertation. He had a two year postdoc at WSU he accepted a tenure track position at Massey University in Aukland, New Zealand.
Osama Fakron: amazingly optimistic student from Libya, who, after getting a PhD in Mechanical engineering, got a Master in Mathematics. I was on his master committee and taught him differential geometry. He is currently an assistant professor at Navajo Technical University. .
Nicholas Guevera: was a student in the Analysis+Data Group.
Abby Higgins: Was a student of mine for a summer and a fall semester, after which it was clear that she did not want to get a PhD in geometric analysis and she switched to mathematics education. She was an assistant professor at Sacremento State University and is now a career track professor at WSU in Pullman.
Svetlana Lockwood: Now at Raytheon on California.
Ritchie Long: Hung around the Analysis+Data group long enough to be a member. He was an undergraduate computer scinece/engineering major. I am not sure where he is currently.
Michael Newsham: Michael was an undergraduate mathematics major from Alaska that did image analysis research with my graduate students. I met him because he was passionate about mathematics and ended up participating in the problem sessions we did together, one problem which inspired this post and this post
Vlad Oles: After graduating from WSU with PhD (I was on his committee, Alex Panchenko was his main advisor) Vlad was a postdoc at ORNL and is now has an Assistant Professor Postdoc position at U Idaho.
Henry Reily: Was often a participant in the Analysis+Data Group activities. I was also on his PhD Committee. He was a data scientist in Seattle, Washington, but is now teaching at Kennesaw State University.
Josh Sackos: Was an undergraduate student of mine that worked in my lab and went to Los Alamos where he created embedded systems for the 2020 Mars Lander. He is currently working as a consulting software engineer.
Gary Sandine: I was on his Masters Committee in Electrical Engineering at University of New Mexico where he worked on a project involving computational methods for the flat norm on graphs. Gary has been a long time collaborator and is currently an Associate Director in OIT and CISO at Portland State University. He is also finishing a PhD in Mathematics, working on convex analysis in infinite dimensional spaces.
Andrew Stevens: I was on his Masters Committee. He went on to a PhD in electrical and computer engineering at Duke University (May 2018) and is currently the owner and chief scientist at OptimalSensing LLC (www.optimalsensing.com).
Kellan Toman: Was briefly my PhD Student. It turned out that he fit better with Nikos Voulgarakis, with whom he finished his PhD. He is now a Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft.
Benjamin Van Dyke: I was on Ben’s Committee and collaborated on a paper with Ben. Ben was a professor at Wenatchee Valley College. before moving to become a professor at the College of the Ozarks.
Heather Van Dyke (now Heather Moon): I was on her PhD Committee and collaborated on a paper with her. She was a professor at St Marys in Maryland, then Lewis and Clark State College. and is now working on a PhD in Physics at WSU in Pullman
Yusen Zhan: was a student of Matt Taylor’s in EECS att WSU before he left for the Royal Bank of Canada. I was on Yusen’s committee. He was in China, at Bilibili Inc. and is now in Singapore and is Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Tech Lead) at GrabAds.