Postdoctoral Researchers Supervised/Mentored
Graduate Students Advised
Gülce Kardeş (CS, co-advised with Rafael Frongillo )
Elise Tate (CS)
Robert Green (CS)
Tzu-Chi Yen (CS, Ph.D. 2023, co-advised with Dan Larremore )
Maya Ornstein (Math, Ph.D. 2023, co-advised with Keith A. Kearnes )
Michael Levet (CS, Ph.D. 2023, now Assistant Professor at College of Charleston Department of Computer Science)
Gabriel Andrade (CS, Ph.D. 2022, now Applied Scientist at Amazon, co-advised with Rafael Frongillo )
Tyler Schrock (Math, Ph.D. 2019, now Software Engineer at Google, co-advised with Nathaniel Thiem )
Undergraduate Researchers Supervised/Mentored
Undergraduate Researcher at CU Boulder
Nathaniel Collins (CU Boulder), Summer 2022 - Spring 2023 (joint with my Ph.D. student Michael Levet, now Ph.D. student at CSU Math)
Ezzeddine El Sai (CU Boulder), Fall 2020 - present (now Ph.D. student at CU Math)
Nicole Dong (CU Boulder), Fall 2020 - Summer 2021 (now Ph.D. student at UIUC CS)
Samuel Serra (CU Boulder), Winter 2020 - Spring 2021
Arthur Pellegrino (CU Boulder), Summer 2019
Tarek Tohme (then at American University of Beirut, now Ph.D. student at École Normale Supérieure), Summer 2019 (resulting in the paper Speeding up network motif discovery by counting isomorphic subtrees ), Summer 2020 & Fall 2020
Luke Meszar , senior thesis (CU Boulder), 2018-2019
Samuel Schlesinger (then at U. Mass., Amherst, now Research Engineer at Google), Summer 2018
Jamie Tucker-Foltz (then at Amherst College, now Ph.D. student at Harvard University), Summer 2017, resulting in the paper Computational topology and the Unique Games Conjecture (arXiv )
Reed College Senior Thesis , external advisor, 2015-2016
Santa Fe Institute REU Program , 2015 and 2016
Ian Klasky (then at Bowdoin, now CU Boulder), Algorithmic coarsening of computationally irreducible complex systems, Summer 2016
Roujia Wen (Minerva), Applying novelty search to the SAT problem, Summer 2016
Sarah Brauner (Reed), Sorting and the information-theoretic bound: a structural analysis, Summer 2015
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Maxinder Kanwal (UC Berkeley; co-mentored with Nihat Ay ), Quantifying complexity: An exploration of what one measure of complexity reveals about functional networks, autoassociative memory, and cellular automata, Summer 2015 (resulting in the paper Comparing information-theoretic measures of complexity in Boltzmann machines )
VIDEO
University of Toronto CSC 494 Project Course, Spring 2014
Paul Sacawa, Geometric complexity theory
The University of Chicago Mathematics Department REU Program , 2008 (co-mentored with
Thomas Church )
The University of Chicago Mathematics Department Directed Reading Program (DRP) , 2008
High School Students Supervised/Mentored