Ph.D. Graduates
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 Operatorsand 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: Hailing 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
- 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 - Bruce Priddy, August 2016
US Army Research Laboratory, Postdoctoral Fellow, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
Advisor: Bing Wei
Dissertation title: Independent Domination in Subcubic Graphs
2015
- Byunghoon Lee, May 2015
Advisor: Gerard Buskes
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
- 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 - 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
2013
- Kayla Davis Harville, May 2013
Advisors: Haidong Wu and Talmage James Reid
Dissertation title: On Binary and Regular Matroids Without Small Minors - Wanda Payne, July 2013
Advisor: William Staton
Dissertation title: Well-covered Graphs, Unique Colorability, and Covering Range
2012
- John Estes, May 2012
Advisors: Bing Wei and William Staton
Dissertation title: On k-Trees and Special Classes of k-Trees - 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
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