Ph.D. Graduates

2024

• Kanchana Esweda Gamladdalage, August 2024
  Assistant Professor, Franklin Pierce University
  Advisors: Bing Wei
  Dissertation title: On Independent Bondage Number and Total Bondage Number of Graphs
• Mahmud Hasan, May 2024
  Instructional Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
  Advisors: Hailin Sang
  Dissertation title: Error and f-Divergence Analysis of Generative Adversarial Network
• Joseph Lopez, August 2024
  Lecturer, University of Tennessee
  Advisors: Sasa Kocic, Samuel Lisi
  Dissertation title: Topics in Quantitative Symplectic Topology and Rigidity in Circle Dynamics
• Casey Lochridge, May 2024
  Instructor, Itawamba Community College
  Advisors: Jeremy Clark
  Dissertation title: Weak Disorder Limit on Diamond Hierarchical Graphs with Vertex Disorder in the Critical Case
• Apoorva Mate, May 2024
  Assistant Teaching Professor, Pennsylvania State University – Brandywine
  Advisors: Qingying Bu
  Dissertation title: Pełczynski’s Properties (V) and (V∗) on Positive Tensor Products of Banach Lattices
• Mathias Muia, May 2024
  Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama
  Advisors: Martial Longla
  Dissertation title: Dependence and Mixing for Perturbations of Copula-Based Markov Chains
• Lei Zhong, August 2024
  Instructional Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
  Advisors: Bing Wei
  Dissertation title: On the Saturation Numbers of Double Stars

2023

• Chathurika Abeykoon, May 2023
  Assistant Professor, Rhodes College
  Advisors: Hailin Sang
  Dissertation title: The Double Descent Behavior in a Two Layer Neural Network for Binary Classification
• Phil Kains, May 2023
  Assistant Professor, Belhaven University
  Advisors: Haidong Wu
  Dissertation title: On Intersections of Long Cycles and Paths in k-Connected Graphs
• Page Thorn, May 2023
  Assistant Professor, Blue Mountain Christian University
  Advisors: Gerard Buskes
  Dissertation title: On the Tensor Product of Archimedean Riesz Spaces
• Yutian Yu, December 2023
  Associate Data Scientist at Rocket Loans
  Advisors: Samuel Lisi
  Dissertation title: A Discrete Conley-Zehnder Index for Symplectic Polytopes

2022

• Courtney Vanderford Michael, May 2022
  Instructor, Northeast Mississippi Community College
  Advisors: Xin Dang
  Dissertation title: On the Symmetric and Computationally Efficient Correlations in Several Bivariate Distributions
• Qinghong Zhao, May 2022
  Lecturer, Hoaqioa University, China
  Advisor: Bing Wei
  Dissertation title: On Ramsey and Gallai-Ramsey Numbers of Some Classes of Graphs

2021

• Moriah Lugar, December 2021
  Teacher, Prishtina High School, Kosovo
  Advisor: Micah B. Milinovich
  Dissertation title: On the Variance in Selberg’s Central Limit Theorem
• Andrew Pham, August 2021
  Visiting Professor, University of Mississippi for Women
  Advisor: Bing Wei
  Dissertation title: On Domination and Bondage Numbers of Some Classes of Graphs
• Duc Anh Doan, May 2021
  Postdoc, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Advisors: Dao Nguyen and Xin Dang
  Dissertation title: Topics on the sampling, optimization and methodology on partially observed Markov process

2020

• Timothy Fortune, August 2020
  Nicholls State University at Thibodaux, LA
  Advisor: Hailin Sang
  Dissertation title: A Local Limit Theorem for Linear Random Fields and Shannon Entropy Estimation for Linear Processes
• Zhenchao Ge, May 2020
  Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, ShanghaiTech University
  Advisors: Micah B. Milinovich and Thái Hoàng Lê
  Dissertation title: Topics in Analytic and Combinatorial Number Theory

2019

• Aleksandr Beknazaryan, August 2019
  Laurentian University, Canada
  Advisor: Hailin Sang
  Dissertation title: Cramer Type Moderate Deviations for Random Fields and Mutual Information Estimation for Mixed-Pair Random Variables

2018

• Sooyeon Lee, May 2018
  Advisor: Haidong Wu
  Dissertation title: Beta Invariant and Variations of Chain Theorems for Matroids
• Khazhak Navoyan, May 2018
  Advisor: Qingying Bu
  Dissertation title: Bases in Spaces of Regular Multilinear Operators and Homogeneous Polynomials on Banach Lattices
• Tommy Naugle, May 2018
  Advisor: Samuel Lisi
  Dissertation title: Generalized Characteristics in Convex Polytopes

2017

• Stephan Roberts, December 2017
  Advisor: Gerard Buskes
  Dissertation title: Orthosymmetric Maps and Polynomial Valuations
• Milisha Hart-Simmons, August 2017
  Advisor: Talmage James Reid
  Dissertation title: The Element Spectrum of a Matroid
• Yongli Sang, May 2017
  Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana Lafayette
  Advisor: Hailin Sang
  Dissertation title: Memory Properties of Transformations of Linear Processes and Symmetric Gini Correlations
• Lynsey Cargile Naugle, May 2017
  Health Data Analyst, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi
  Advisor: Erwin Miña Díaz
  Dissertation title: Orthogonal Polynomials on an Arc of the Unit Circle with Respect to a Generalized Jacobi Weight: A Riemann-Hilbert Approach
• James Henegan, May 2017
  Advisor: Erwin Miña Díaz
  Dissertation title: Asymptotic Properties of Polynomials Orthogonal over Multiply Connected Domains

2016

• Bruce Priddy, August 2016
  US Army Research Laboratory, Postdoctoral Fellow, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
  Advisor: Bing Wei
  Dissertation title: Independent Domination in Subcubic Graphs
• Shaohui Wang, July 2016
  Lecturer, Adelphi University
  Advisor: Bing Wei
  Dissertation title: On Topological Indices and Domination Numbers of Graphs
• Janet Nakarmi, May 2016
  Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas
  Advisor: Hailin Sang
  Dissertation title: On Variable Bandwidth Kernel Density and Regression Estimation

2015

• Byunghoon Lee, May 2015
  Assistant Professor, Tuskegee University
  Advisor: Qingying Bu
  Dissertation title: Diagonals of Tensor Products of Banach Lattices with Bases
• Christopher Schwanke, May 2015
  Advisor: Gerard Buskes
  Dissertation title: Complex Vector Lattices: Tensor Products and Multilinear Maps
• Lauren Weatherall, May 2015
  Health Data Analyst, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi
  Advisor: Xin Dang
  Dissertation title: Gini Covariance Matrix and its Affine Equivariant Version

2014

• Jamye Curry, August 2014
  Assistant Professor, School of Science and Technology, Georgia Gwinnett College
  Advisor: Xin Dang
  Dissertation title: Rank-based Two Sample Tests Under A General Alternative
• Bette Catherine Putnam, May 2014
  Advisor: Laura Sheppardson
  Dissertation title: The Characterization of Graphs with Small Bicycle Spectrum
• Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh, May 2014
  Advisor: Micah B. Milinovich
  Dissertation title: Moments of Products of L-Functions

2013

• Wanda Payne, July 2013
  Advisor: William Staton
  Dissertation title: Well-covered Graphs, Unique Colorability, and Covering Range
• Kayla Davis Harville, May 2013
  Advisors: Haidong Wu and Talmage James Reid
  Dissertation title: On Binary and Regular Matroids Without Small Minors

2012

• Kai Yu, December 2012
  Business Intelligence Engineer, Amazon Web Service, Amazon
  Advisor: Xin Dang
  Dissertation title: Contributions to Robust Methods: Modified Rank Covariance Matrix and Spatial-EM Algorithm
• John Estes, May 2012
  Advisors: Bing Wei and William Staton
  Dissertation title: On k-Trees and Special Classes of k-Trees

2010

• Torina Lewis, December 2010
  Advisor: Talmage James Reid
  Dissertation title: Bicircular Matroids with Circuits of at Most Two Sizes
• Adam Gray, August, 2010
  Advisor: Talmage James Reid
  Dissertation title: Clone Arcs in Matroids and Projective Spaces
• James Shook, August, 2010
  Advisor: Bing Wei
  Dissertation title: Hamilton Cycles, Paths and Centers of Chordal Graphs
• Cuilan Gao, May 2010
  Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  Advisor: Xin Dang
  Dissertation title: Graph Ranking by Kernelized Spatial Depth Functions, with Applications

2009

• Justin Spencer, July 2009
  Advisor: William Staton
  Dissertation title: On the Hereditary Degree Repetition Index of a Graph
• Lyrial Chism , May 2009
  Advisor: William Staton
  Dissertation title: On Independence Polynomials and Independence Equivalence in Graphs
• Michelle Cradock , May 2009
  Advisor: Qingying Bu
  Dissertation title: Reflexivity and the Grothendieck Property for Positive Tensor Products of Banach Lattices
• Loni Delaplane , May 2009
  Advisor: Haidong Wu
  Dissertation title: Connectivity and Characteristic Polynomials of Binary Matroids
• Lanzhen Song , May 2009
  Advisor: William Staton
  Dissertation title: Independence Polynomials of k-Tree Related and Well-covered Graphs

2008

• Joshua Hanes, July 2008
  Mississippi Unversity for Women
  Advisor: Tristan Denley
  Dissertation title: Distance Graphs on the Integers
• Wei-Kai Lai, May 2008
  University of South Carolina, Salkehatchie
  Advisors: Qingying Bu and Gerard Buskes
  Dissertation title: The Radon-Nikodym Property for Positive Tensor Products of Banach Lattices

2007

• Latonya Garner, August 2007
  Mississippi Valley State University
  Advisor: Hanxiang Peng
  Dissertation title: A Partially Exchangeable Model with Applications to Correlated Binary Data
• Leslie Horton, May 2007
  Delta State University
  Advisor: William Staton
  Dissertation title: Enumerations of Independent Sets in Graphs
• Emlee Nicholson, April 2007
  Winthrop University
  Advisor: Bing Wei
  Dissertation title: Long Cycles and Paths Containing k-Ordered Vertices in Graphs

2006

• Joe Anderson
  Mississippi Valley State University
  Advisor: Haidong Wu
  Dissertation title: 3-Connected Binary Matroids and Graphs
• Sankar Bokka, August 2006
  Advisor: Sunil Mathur
  Dissertation title: Statistical Tests for the Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes
• Carla Cotwright, June 2006
  Hampton University
  Advisor: Talmage James Reid
  Dissertation title: Clones and Minors in Matroids
• Brian Davis, May 2006
  Tusculum College, Tennessee
  Advisor: Iwo Labuda
  Dissertation title: Generalized Compactness and Applications
• Samuel Dolo, May 2006
  Advisor: Sunil Mathur
  Dissertation title: A Nonparametric Test for Scale in Univariate Population Setup
• Stephine Keeton, December 2006
  Food and Drug Administration
  Advisor: Hanxiang Peng
  Dissertation title: The Semiparametric Exchangeable Model and Its Applications
• Pamela Smith , August 2006
  Millsaps and Hinds Community College
  Advisor: Sunil Mathur
  Dissertation title: An Efficient Nonparametric Test for Bivariate Two-Sample Location Problem
• Bryan Williams, May 2006
  Hampton University
  Advisor: Talmage James Reid
  Dissertation title: Large Circuit Pairs in Matroids
• Adrian Wilson, April 2006
  University of Montevallo
  Advisor: Alan Paterson
  Dissertation title: Graph Groupoids and Their Topology

2005

• Jaromy Kuhl, May 2005
  West Florida University
  Advisor: Tristan Denley
  Dissertation title: On Completing and Avoiding Partial Latin Squares
• Robert Page, May 2005
  Framingham State College, Vermont
  Advisor: Gerard Buskes
  Dissertation title: On Bilinear Maps of Order Bounded Variation
• Gibson Johnston Rayner, May 2005
  Advisor: Hanxiang Peng
  Dissertation title: The Exchangeable Negative Binomial Distribution and Its Applications
• Alice Sanford, December 2005
  University of Mississippi
  Advisor: William Staton
  Dissertation title: Cycle Spectra, Automorphic Uniqueness, and Isomorphism
• Benton Tyler, May 2005
  University of Montevallo
  Advisor: William Staton
  Dissertation title: Tilings and Packings of n-Dimensional Cubes

2003

• Amy Welch, December 2003
  Applied Research Associates, Inc.
  Advisor: Alan Paterson
  Dissertation title: Tychonoff’s Theorem and the Metric Topology of Path Spaces
• Nolan McMurray Jr., May 2003
  University of North Carolina Wilmington
  Advisor: Talmage James Reid
  Dissertation title: On Largest Circuits and Cocircuits in Matroids
• Jake Olivier, May 2003
  Advisor: Hanxiang Peng
  Dissertation title: Home Range Techniques Utilizing Spatial Correlation