My group accepts motivated students who are interested in mathematical biology. Please drop me an email or stop by my office. 

Ph.D. Students

Hannah Anderson (major advisor: Tracy Stepien; co-advisor: Libin Rong), graduated in May 2024
First position: Post-doc at Moffitt Cancer Center

Boya Yang, graduated in May 2023
First position: Post-doc at NIH

Shasha Gao (co-advisor: Maia Martcheva), graduated in December 2022
First position: Faculty at Jiangxi Normal University (China)

Joshua Tyler Smith, graduated in May 2022
First position: Research Scientist at Javelin Biotech, Boston

Areej Alshorman, graduated in December 2015, Oakland University
First position: Post-doc at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Kasia Pawelek, graduated in May 2012, Oakland University
First position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina Beaufort

Other Students

Ryan Campisi (undergraduate honor thesis, double major in Computer Science and Math): Spring 2024
Luc Olivier (graduate): 2018 – 2019
Meiqi Song (undergraduate): Winter 2015
Gregory Mink (graduate): Summer 2013 – Summer 2014
Chathuri Samarasinghe (graduate): Fall 2012 – Fall 2014
Pawel Marcinek (graduate): Summer 2012
M. Joey Meyer (undergraduate): Summer 2011 and Summer 2012
Marc Ratajczak (undergraduate): Summer 2010

Post-docs and visitors

Ryan Nikin-Beers (Virginia Tech, 2018), Visiting Assistant Professor, August 2018 – August 2020
Giao Huynh (University of Utah, 2010), Post-doc, September 2010 – August 2012
Kasia Pawelek (Oakland University, 2012), Post-doc, May 2012 – August 2012

Sha He, Visiting student from Shaanxi Normal University, China, September 2019 – September 2021
Ting Guo, Visiting student from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, September 2018 – September 2019
Zhipeng Qiu, Visiting Professor from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, August 2018 – October 2018
Qimin Zhang, Xiaojie Mou, Xiaoni Li, and Kangbo Bao, Visitors from Ningxia University, China, December 2017 – March 2018