List of Summer 2009 REU Participants for UCLA RTG Program
name, school, project, mentor
Oliver Ortlieb, HMC, Whale tails, Eldredge
Chris Fathauer, HMC, Crime, Mohler
Kym Louie, HMC, Crime, Mohler
Michael Egesdal, UCLA, Crime, Mohler
Jeremy Neuman, UCLA, Crime, Mohler
Paul Latterman, UCLA, fluids, Murisic
KH Lin, UCLA, fluids, Murisic
Joyce Ho, UCLA, fluids, Murisic
Vincent Hu, UCLA, fluids, Murisic
Trystan Koch, HMC, fluids, Stechmann
Stephen Lee, HMC, clouds, Stechmann
Dmitri Skjorshammer, HMC, clouds, Stechmann
Russell Melick, HMC, clouds, Stechmann
Bryce Lampe, HMC, imaging, Wittman
Keven Chan, HMC, imaging, Wittman
Sarah Loeb, HMC, imaging, Wittman
Kate Burger, HMC, imaging, Wittman
Sam Lin, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Alex Honda, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Xiaodong (Jef) Huang, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Allan Garcia, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Sheida Rahmani, UCLA imaging, Wittman
Robert Keith Stephens, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Hai H. Dai, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Nizar Almoussa, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Amit Friedman, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Brittany Dutra, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Yohannes Fessehatsion, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Jian Seo, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
I-An Chen, UCLA, imaging, Wittman
Daria Merkurjev, UCLA imaging, Wittman
Kit Curtius, UCLA, crime models, Mohler
Bryant Hirai, UCLA, crime models, Mohler
Support provided by NSF RTG grant DMS-0601395,
NSF grant BCS-0527388, NGA grant HM1582-06-1-2034, UC Lab research fund,
ARO MURI grant 50363-MA-MUR, ONR grants N000140610059
and N000140710431.
Students who have gone on to graduate school
I-An Chen, PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (2016) currently a Lecturer at USC Marshall School of Business
Jeremy Neumann, PhD in Physics, Univ. of Chicago (2015), currently Algorithmic Trader at TransMarket Group Chicago
Michael Egesdal, PhD in Economics, Harvard (2016), currently Data Science Manager at Airbnb, San Francisco
Sheida Rahmani, Masters in Applied Mathematics, UC Irvine
Kit Curtius, NSF Graduate Fellow, PhD program in Applied Mathematics, Univ of Washington; Postdoc Barts Cancer Institute in London UK
Bryant Hirai, Masters in Applied Mathematics, Univ of Washington (2012), currently Sr. Director, Monetization and Growth at Jam City, Los Angeles
Yohannes Fessehatsion, Masters of Science in Applied Mathematics, Claremont Graduate University (2012), currently working in Data Science in San Francisco
Daria Merkurjev, PhD in Bioinformatics, UCSD, currently a postdoc at UCLA
Alex Honda, Masters in CS, UC Irvine, 2011, currently working as a software engineer for Google in Mountain View
Trystan Koch, Ph D program in Physics, Univ. Maryland
Kanhui Lin, Master of Science in Computational Finance, Carnegie Mellon (2011), currently a VP in Investment Banking at Citi, Hong Kong
Paul Latterman, Masters in Bioengineering, UCLA
Sarah Loeb, PhD in Math Univ. IL Urbana-Champaign, 2017, currently Asst. Prof. of Mathematics and Computer Science at Hampden-Sydney College, VA
Students who are in industry
Oliver Ortlieb, cofounder of Layer By Layer (3D printing company); Software Engineer at MakerBot, cofounder of Voodoo Manufacturing Inc.
Joyce Ho, Currently Process Control Applications Engineer at ExxonMobil, Houston TX
Dmitri Skjorshammer, Entrepreneur San Francisco, CA (Computer Software)
Russell Melick, currently Manager, Data science and Infra at Vida Health
Bryce Lampe, Engineer Manager, Uber
Nizar Almoussa, Software Engineer in Test II at Expedia, Inc.
Kym Louie, Mathematician and Data Scientist, PredPol; Software Developer, Epic; Software Engineer, Google
Bryant Hirai, Monetization Associate at Playtika Santa Monica (Investment Management)
Yohannes Fessehatsion, Project Director, Socratic Technologies
Brittany Dutra, Senior Software Engineer at Apple, Cupertino CA