Katharine Long's research students

Current and former PhD students

• Kohl James (graduating 2025, coadvised with Lourdes Juan)
  • High-level software for PDE models in mathematical biology
• Abubakarr Yillah (graduating 2025)
  • Thesis topic: Inverse problems in circulatory system modeling
• Aman Rani (2024, coadvised with Victoria Howle)
  • Thesis topic: preconditioning for implicit Runge-Kutta methods
  • Now a postdoc at Johns Hopkins
• Michael Clines (2023, co-advised with Victoria Howle)
  • Thesis: Optimality Theorems and Numerical Results on Block Preconditioners for Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods Applied to PDEs in Engineering and Biophysics
  • Now at Blink Thermal
• Md Masud Rana (2021, coadvised with Victoria Howle and Angela Peace)
  • Thesis: New Models and Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations Applied to Spatial Stoichiometric Aquatic Ecosystems
  • Now a postdoc at the University of Kentucky
• Josh Engwer (2018)
  • Thesis: Partitioned Implicit Runge-Kutta Timesteppers for Micromagnetics with Eddy Currents
  • Now works in data management for TTU
• Bimali Jayasinghe (2018)
  • Thesis: An analysis of block Verlet timestepping with lagged force evaluation for the gravitational N -body problem
  • Now on the faculty of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
• Simon Rush (2018)
  • Thesis: Real-Time Simulation of Fluid Flow Based on Sensor Data Using Reduced-Order Modeling
  • Now a quantitative analyst at USAA
• Chandani Dissanayake (2016, coadvised with Angela Peace)
  • Thesis: Finite element simulation of space/time behavior in a two-species ecological stoichiometric model
  • Now on the faculty of the Sri Lanka Technological College
• Senay Tewolde (2015)
  • Thesis: A Model for Noninvasive Detection of Eye Tumor and Core Body Temperature Estimation by Ocular Surface Temperature
  • Founder and CEO of BIOSNS
• Richard Erickson (2013)
  • Thesis: Quantifying the Effect of Toxicants on Ecological Populations
  • Now at the USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory

MS students

• Brad Armstrong (scientific programmer at Raytheon)
• Kimberly Kennedy (game designer at Konami Gaming)
• Vipin Palande (teaching at Puna University)
• Jed Goelkhe (graduate student in applied math, Rice University)
• Kaleb McKale (mathematician at the US Department of Defense)
• Jon Milhollan (co-advised with Ram Iyer) (now at Naval Research Laboratories)

Undergraduate research students

• Current
  • Harold Margeta-Cacace
• Former (TTU)
  • Jacob Slocum
  • Tyler Moser
  • Jackson Kulik (now a PhD student in applied math at Cornell)
  • Luciano Pinheiro
  • William Milestone (now a grad student in EE at TTU)
  • Madeleine Brown
  • Max Zhelazhnykov (now a grad student in EE at U. Washington)
  • Brody Moore (now a grad student in Materials Science at UNT)
• Former (SUNY)
  • John Chase
  • Arup Barat

Student Interns

• Sandia
  • Catherine Beni (Caltech)
  • Andy Terrell (Chicago)
  • Jill Reese (NCSU)
  • Patricia Howard (Rice)
  • Allen Harvey (SUNY)
  • Clemens Kadow (CMU)
  • Mike Boldt (St. John's)
  • John Gentile (SUNY)
• BEAM
  • Adam Florence (Cornell)