Former Ph.D. Students of Andrea L Bertozzi

All degrees are PhD in Mathematics or Applied Mathematics unless otherwise specified

  • James von Brecht (UCLA 2012)
    Pattern Formation in Particle Interactions
    Postdoc, UCLA Mathematics
  • Laura Michelle Smith (UCLA 2012)
    Incorporating Spatial Information into Density Estimates and Street Gang Models
    Postdoc, Information Sciences Institute, USC
  • Rachel Anne Hegemann (UCLA 2012)
    Spatially embedded social networks: dynamic models and data reconstruction
    Fullbright Fellowship, Univ. Muenster
  • Erik Lewis (UCLA 2012)
    Estimation Techniques for Self-Exciting Point Processes with Applications to Criminal Behavior
    Kontagent, Data Scientist/Account Manager
  • Matthew Mata (UCLA 2011)
    Particle-laden thin film flow: An alternating direction implicit scheme and comparison between theory, numerical simulations, and experiments
    Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSB Mathematics, 2011-14
  • Jacob Bedrossian (UCLA 2011, Joseph Teran co-advisor)
    Part I: A Virtual Node Method for Elliptic Interface Problems Part II: Local and Global Theory of Aggregation Equations with Nonlinear Diffusion
    NSF Postdoctoral Scholar, Courant Institute, NYU, 2011-14
  • Alexander S-Ban Chen (UCLA 2011)
    Boundary Tracking in Large Data Sets and Modeling the Evolution of Landscapes
    Postdoctoral Scholar, SAMSI and UNC Chapel Hill, 2011-13
  • Nancy Rodriguez (UCLA 2011)
    Applied Partial Dirential Equations in Crime Modeling and Biological Aggregation
    NSF Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 2011-14
  • Wenhua Gao (UCLA 2011)
    The Laplace-Beltrami Operator in a Level Set Framework and Its Applications
    Intern PIMCO, Newport Beach, CA, Spring 2011; Financial Engineer, OTC Derivative team, Bloomberg LP, New York, 2011-present
  • Wangyi (Bobby) Liu (UCLA 2011)
    Two Dynamical System Models Based on Real-World Scenarios: a Swarming Control Model and a Surface Tension Model
    Postdoctoral Scholar, Petascale Initiative , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Yifei Lou (UCLA 2010)
    Local, Non-local and Global Methods in Image Reconstruction
    Postdoctoral Scholar, Georgia Tech (2011), UCSD/UCLA (2012)
  • Yanghong Huang (UCLA 2010)
    Self-Similar Blowup Solutions of the Aggregation Equation
    Postdoctoral Scholar, Simon Fraser University, 2010-2012; Chapman Fellow in Mathematics, Imperial College London, 2012-present
  • Julia Dobrosotskaya (UCLA 2009)
    Wavelet analogue of Ginzburg-Landau energy, its $\Gamma$ convergence and applications
    Postdoctoral Scholar, Univ. of Maryland
  • Hsiang-Wei Lu (UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2007, CJ Kim co-advisor)
    Fluid Dynamics of an Electrowetting Drop: Theories, Simulations, and Experiments
    Postdoctoral scholar, MIT and Harvey Mudd College (2007-2010), currently research staff of the Microfluidics Research Group (James Sterling) Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA.
  • Benjamin Cook (UCLA 2007)
    Lubrication Models for Particle-Laden Thin Films
    Arete Associates, Arlington, VA
  • Alan Gillette (UCLA 2006)
    Image Inpainting Using a Modified Cahn-Hilliard Equation
    President, Heaviside Wealth Management, Financial Services.
  • Yao-Li Chuang (PhD in Physics, Duke University 2006)
    Stability and Scalability of 2D Swarming Patterns
    Postdoctoral scholar, UC Irvine, Dept. of Mathematics 2007-8, Univ. of Texas Medical Center 2009-10, currently at Computational Biology Program Univ. New Mexico Department of Pathology, Vittorio Cristini advisor, currently working on Cancer modeling
  • John Greer (Duke University 2003)
    Fourth order diffusions for image processing
    NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematics Sciences, 2004-7
    National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, 2007-present
  • Ted Welsh (Duke University 2003)
    Mathematical modeling of landscape erosion: convergence, singularities, and shocks in a continuous, trasport-limited model
    Associate Professor (tenure) at Westfield State College (MA).
  • Liya Zhornitskaya (Duke University 1999)
    Positivity Preserving Numerical Schemes for Lubrication Equations
    Postdoc, Univ. of Bonn, Germany and Univ. of Utah, 1999-2003. Currently at University College Cork, Ireland.