Students and postdocs
Doctoral and postdoctoral mentoring
Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars advised or mentored at Berkeley, Caltech, and MIT.
Ph.D. students
Doctoral students
| Name | Degree institution | Year | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yongbin Ruan | UC Berkeley | 1991 | Professor, Zhejiang University |
| Christopher Herald | UC Berkeley | 1992 | Foundation Professor and Graduate Program Director, University of Nevada, Reno |
| Graham Taylor | UC Berkeley | 1994 | — |
| Baozhen Yu | UC Berkeley | 1994 | — |
| Qing Yang | Caltech | 1999 | — |
| Carmen Young | MIT | 2000 | — |
| Anda Degeratu | MIT | 2001 | Lecturer, University of Stuttgart |
| Edward Goldstein | MIT | 2001 | — |
| Yue Lei | MIT | 2001 | Teaching Professor, UC Merced |
| Lenhard Ng | MIT | 2001 | Professor, Duke University |
| Aleksey Zinger | MIT | 2002 | Professor, Stony Brook University |
| Eun Soo Lee | MIT | 2003 | — |
| Benoit Charbonneau | MIT | 2004 | Associate Professor, University of Waterloo |
| Lawrence Guth | MIT | 2005 | Claude E. Shannon Professor, MIT |
| Fangyun Yang | MIT | 2007 | — |
| Maksim Lipyanskiy | MIT | 2008 | — |
| William Lopes | MIT | 2010 | — |
| Bernard Mares | MIT | 2010 | Independent consultant, mathematical modeling and data science |
| Timothy Nguyen | MIT | 2011 | Machine learning research, Google DeepMind |
| Steven Sivek | MIT | 2011 | Reader, Imperial College London |
| Tirasan Khandhawit | MIT | 2013 | Faculty member, Mahidol University |
| Lucas Culler | MIT | 2014 | — |
| Francesco Lin | MIT | 2016 | Associate Professor, Columbia University |
| Yakov Berchenko-Kogan | MIT | 2016 | Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology |
| Sherry Gong | MIT | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University |
| Piotr Suwara | MIT | 2020 | — |
| Zhenkun Li | MIT | 2020 | Associate Research Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Jesse Freeman | MIT | 2021 | — |
| Donghao Wang | MIT | 2021 | Quantitative researcher, Wizard Quant |
| Greg Parker | MIT | 2022 | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley |
| Deeparaj Bhat | MIT | 2024 | J. F. Ritt Assistant Professor, Columbia University |
| Mary Stelow | MIT | 2026 | — |
Postdoctoral mentoring
Postdoctoral scholars
| Name | Host institution | Years | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Ozsváth | Caltech | 1992-94 | Professor, Princeton University |
| Matilde Marcolli | MIT | 1997-2000 | Robert F. Christy Professor, Caltech |
| Matthew Hedden | MIT | 2006-08 | Professor, Michigan State University |
| Yi Ni | MIT | 2007-09 | Professor, Caltech |
| Jonathan Bloom | MIT | 2011-14 | Lecturer, MIT Experimental Study Group and Mathematics |
| Bohua Zhan | MIT | 2014-17 | Associate Research Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Linh Truong | MIT | 2016-17 | Assistant Professor, University of Michigan |
| Jianfeng Lin | MIT | 2016-19 | Associate Professor, Tsinghua University |
| Yu Pan | MIT | 2017-19 | Associate Professor, Tianjin University |
| Matthew Stoffregen | MIT | 2017-19 | Associate Professor, Michigan State University |
| Maggie Miller | MIT | 2019-20 | Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
| Irving Dai | MIT | 2019-20 | Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
| Lisa Piccirillo | MIT | 2019-20 | Professor and Richardson Regents Chair, University of Texas at Austin |
| Jonathan Zung | MIT | 2022-25 | Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Joshua Wang | MIT | 2023-24 | Assistant Professor, Princeton University |