Spring Graduation & Awards 2025
May 14, 2025
Congratulations Spring 2025 Graduates and Award Winners!
The Mathematics Department extends its congratulations to the graduating class of 2025. Fifty-seven (57) undergraduates completed degrees in mathematics this spring, and 19 students completed graduate degrees in mathematics. Several of these students received recognition for their accomplishments as Mathematics students at Virginia Tech. Additionally, six of our students participated in the Layman Prize competition for undergraduate research, with Theodore Li and Bethany Thompson sharing the prize. We are proud of all of our students, all that they have accomplished, and all they will accomplish moving forward. Ut Prosim!
| Graduates | |
| Hudson |
Abbott |
| Michael | Binyam |
| Corbin | Birt |
| Ori | Bond |
| Zachary | Bornstein |
| Brady | Bowersox |
| Noble | Cardoze |
| Kevin | Chen |
| Aidan | Conant |
| Jayson | De La Vega |
| Hadleigh | Dumale |
| Aidan | Flinton |
| Matthew | Fuerst |
| Mitchell | Gallehr |
| Sejal | Gupta |
| Cort | Hasto |
| Mason | Hill |
| Michael | Holman |
| Kyle | Johnston |
| Samer | Jouhar |
| Morgan | Ketchum |
| Olivia | Kielb |
| Andrew | Kim |
| Kelly | King |
| Alex | Klee |
| Sam | Klemic |
| Caleb | Kong |
| Josh | Layer |
| Owen | Lenzmeier |
| Benjamin | Levy |
| Theodore | Li |
| Yihan | Liu |
| Robert | Long |
| Michael | Lucas |
| Nishad | Manohar |
| Jake | McCann |
| Collin | McDevitt |
| Sean | McShane |
| Richard | Morgan, III |
| Maverick | Morrison |
| Erich | Norton |
| Griffin | Paddock |
| Preston | Pitzer |
| Abbie | Robertson |
| Zelin | Shen |
| Alex | Sing |
| Shrutik | Sivagnanavelu |
| Evan | Utne |
| Diego | Valencia |
| Connor | Vann |
| Natalie | Wade |
| Lily | Walsh |
| Bobby | Whitehead |
| Brandon | Wong |
| Paul | Yang |
| Kevin | Ye |
| Kosta | Zigic |
Ben Bruncati, MS
advisor: Estrella Johnson
[non-thesis option]
Joshua Carter, MS
advisor: Alex Elgart
[non-thesis option]
Nathan Daly, MS
advisor: Jason LeGrow
[non-thesis option]
https://math.vt.edu/grad-math/spotlights/daly-nathan.html
Jennifer De Jager, MS
advisor: Serkan Gugercin
[non-thesis option]
Ross George, MS
advisor: Gretchen Matthews
thesis: "Constructing CSS-T codes from extended quasi-cyclic codes"
Conor Gourley, MS
advisor: Travis Morrison
[non-thesis option]
JC Hartman, MS
advisor: Honghu Liu
thesis: "Parameter estimation for delay differential equations: A new Galerkin approximation framework"
Ariel Lui, MS
advisor: Gretchen Matthews
thesis: "On privacy in group testing"
Quiyana Murphy, PhD
advisor: Stanca Ciupe
dissertation: "Mathematical models of immune responses during external challenges and autoimmunity"
Chi Nguyen, MS
advisor: Sarah Arpin
[non-thesis option]
Aaron Pueschel, MS
advisor: Johann Rudi
[non-thesis option]
Sean Reiter, PhD
advisor:
dissertation: "Dimensionality reduction in structured dynamical systems: Optimal-H2 approximation, data-driven balancing, and real-time disturbance monitoring"
https://math.vt.edu/grad-math/spotlights/reiter-sean.html
Nart Shalqini, MS
advisor: Hiram Lopez Valdez
[non-thesis option]
Sirawit Srakaew, MS
advisor: Stanca Cuipe
[non-thesis option]
Evan Stosic, MS
advisor: Jason LeGrow
[non-thesis option]
Cankat Tilki, MS
advisor: Serkan Gugercin
[non-thesis option]
Matthew Walker, MS
advisor: Slimane Adjerid
[non-thesis option]
Haoran Wang, MS
advisor: John Burns
[non-thesis option]
Teona Zurabashvili, MS
advisor: Jeff Borggaard
[non-thesis option]
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
Outstanding Senior Overall
- Nishad Manohar
Outstanding Senior - Traditional Option
- Benjamin Levy
Outstanding Senior - Applied Computational Option
- Zachary Bornstein
Outstanding Senior - Applied Discrete Option
- Evan Utne
Outstanding Senior - Math Education Option
- Erich Norton
Outstanding Senior - Undergraduate Research
- Griffin Paddock
Nominee for College of Science Outstanding Senior
- Kyle Johnston
PI MU EPSILON INDUCTION CEREMONY
New Pi Mu Epsilon Members
- Paul Clary
- Aidan Flinton
- Kyle Johnston
- Alexander Racz
- Marquis Skinner
2024-2025 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
Patricia A. Caldwell Scholarship
- Isabella Cacciapuoti
Daniel S. Kim Memorial Scholarship
- Owen Shipley
Richard & Georgia Kimball / Norfolk Southern Scholarship
- Paul Clary
- Alex Levy
Carl A. Persinger Scholarship
- Samuel Stoke
Marion & Charlotte Eckert Mathematics Scholarship
- Paul Clary
- Natalie Wade
Ray A. Gaskin Scholarship
- Alex Levy
Kathleen Wampler & Forest Dryden Rollins Scholarship
- Marquis Skinner
T.W. Hatcher Mathematical Scholarship
- Ahmed Abbas
- Brady Bowersox
- Natalie Brace
- Alyssa Burgos
- Naafay Ghazi
- Owen Lenzmeier
- Alex Levy
- Taylor Murrell
- John Pantazopoulos
- Kira Patel
- Audrey Puttock
- Owen Shipley
- Jackson Smedley
- Justin Smith
- Conan Ugaz
- Evan Utne
- Kevin Ye
Lee R. Steeneck & Regina Aultice Steeneck Undergraduate Scholarship
- Kevin Chen
GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
Outstanding GTA
- Jennifer Smucker
C.B. Ling Scholarship
- Megan Grey
Lee R. Steeneck & Regina Aultice Steeneck Graduate Fellowship
- Ian Moore
FACULTY AWARDS
2025 SIAM Fellow
- Serkan Güğercin
Archana S. Sathaye Junior Faculty Fellowship in Mathematics
- Lauren Childs
Roger H. Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Dean’s Faculty Fellow
- Stanca M. Ciupe
College of Science Faculty Fellow
- Traian Iliescu
College of Science Outstanding Academic Advisor
- Jessica Hurdus
Sally Bohland Award for Innovative Service in Access and Inclusion
- Universal Design for Learning Fellows: Kelli Karcher
Retirement After 50+ Years of Service
- John A. Burns
Instructors of the Year
- Erika Rappold
Outstanding First Year Instructor
- Navaneeth Chenicheri Chathoth
Instructional Faculty Service Award
- Diane Agud
- Kelli Karcher
- Danny Kim
- Fazle Rabby
- Jessica Schmale
Faculty Promotions (Subject to BOV approval)
- Promotion to Associate Professor: Hiram López-Valdez
- Promotion to Senior Instructor: E. Fanny Jasso
- Promotion to Advanced Instructor: Ted Juste, Kaveh Kasebian, Palanivel Manoharan, Fazle Rabby, Edgar Saenz-Maldonado
Early on Reading Day, Thursday May 8th, math enthusiasts gathered in the Commons Room to witness the annual Layman Prize Competition for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics organized by the Mathematics Department. Six undergraduate students presented their research.
- Ryan Bentley (research advisor Dr. Pasha):
Hybrid AB-BA GMRES and LSQR with Unmatched Backprojectors for Massive Scale X-Ray Computerized Tomography - Aidan Chadh (research advisor Dr. Rudi):
Autoencoders Applied to Inverse Problem Solution Mappings with Neural Networks - Sean Clark (research advisor Dr. Arnold):
Finding Connections Between Learning Obstacles in Introductory Proofs Courses During the Quantification Unit - Ethan Crouse (research advisor Dr. Werner):
Solving For Controller Feedback of Dynamical Systems Using Reinforcement Learning - Theodore Li (research advisor Dr. Werner):
Subspace identification used to establish dynamics in time-sensitive ICU patient data - Bethany Thompson (research advisor Dr. Norton):
Assessment Tasks for Epistemological Obstacles Related to Euler Diagrams
Each participant was given 20 minutes to present their work and answer questions from the panel of judges. The evaluation committee of Professors Farcas, Liu and Wawro had the challenging job of selecting a winner, after hearing six great talks. After deliberating two joint winners of the competition were announced to be Theodore Li advised by Dr. Werner and Bethany Thompson advised by Dr. Norton. Congratulations to both students and their advisors!
We thank all the students and advisors who participated. You can see the complete list of winners posted on our Undergraduate Research page.
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