Irsa Golemi (HC '28)
Directed Reading Student
Network Science
Esther Osibajo (HC '27)
Mathematics Honors Thesis Student
Developing Mathematical Methods to Study Access to Public Resources in Developing Countries in Africa
Irsa Golemi (HC '28), Weiss Summer Research Student, A Topological Analysis of Hospital Accessibility in Arkansas and Massachusetts, Summer 2026.
Man-Yo Hirota (HC '29), Weiss Summer Research Student, Bifurcation Analysis of Predator-Prey System with Sex-structure, Immigration, and a Harmonic Mating Function, Summer 2026.
Ben King (HC '28), Weiss Summer Research Student, Analyzing Public School Access in Chicago, Illinois using Persistent Homology, Summer 2026.
Lina Nguyen (HC '28), Weiss Summer Research Student, Topics in Resource Coverage, Summer 2026.
Esther Osibajo (HC '27), Weiss Summer Research Student, Developing Mathematical Methods to Study Access to Public Resources in Developing Countries in Africa, Summer 2026.
Sean H. Kawano (Univ. of Washington '26), Undergraduate Research Student, Analyzing Public Electric Vehicle Charging Station Coverage Using Persistent Homology, Winter 2026-Summer 2026.
Co-mentored with David Beers (UCLA)
Rory Gilles (HC '28), Undergraduate Research Student, The Shape of Knowledge Acquisition, Spring 2026.
Abby Harito (HC '28), JD Power Center Research Associate, Opinion Dynamics on Hypergraphs, Spring 2026.
Patrick Jackson (HC '28), JD Power Center Research Associate, Opinion Dynamics on Hypergraphs, Spring 2026.
Jordan Lombardi (UCLA '26), Directed Research Project, The ‘Rotten Apple’ Network: A Mathematical Analysis of Officer Co-Involvement in Use of Force and Misconduct Complaints, Summer and Fall 2025.
Colin Galbraith (UCLA '25), Directed Research Project, AGeoABM: A Geospatial Agent-Based Model for Epidemic Spread, Spring 2025.
Now a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Utah
Makenna Greenwalt (Oregon State '25), UCLA Geometry + Topology REU, Exploring Patterns in Mathematics Faculty Hiring with Persistent Homology, Summer 2024.
Co-mentored with Siddhanth Raman (UCI) and Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now a PhD student in Mathematics at Colorado State
Kelvin Luu (UCLA '25), UCLA Geometry + Topology REU, Exploring Patterns in Mathematics Faculty Hiring with Persistent Homology, Summer 2024.
Co-mentored with Siddhanth Raman (UCI) and Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now a masters student at California State University, Northridge
Zachary Ojakli (Dartmouth '25), UCLA Geometry + Topology REU, Summer 2024. Persistent Homology Transform of Embedded Knots, Summer 2024.
Co-mentored with Siddhanth Raman (UCI) and Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now a masters student in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London
Amy Somers (UC Santa Barbara '26), UCLA Geometry + Topology REU, Persistent Homology Transform of Embedded Knots, Summer 2024.
Co-mentored with Siddhanth Raman (UCI) and Mason Porter (UCLA)
Ahoora Tamizifar (UC Irvine '25), UCLA Geometry + Topology REU, Exploring Patterns in Mathematics Faculty Hiring with Persistent Homology, Summer 2024.
Co-mentored with Siddhanth Raman (UCI) and Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now a PhD student in Mathematics at Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Erin O'Neil (UCLA '24), UCLA Queen's Road Fellow, Evaluating Cooling Center Coverage Using Persistent Homology of a Filtered Witness Complex, Fall 2023-Spring 2024.
Now a PhD student in Applied and Computational Mathematics and a recipient of the President’s Fellowship at Princeton University
Max Collins (Harvey Mudd '25), UCLA CAM REU, A Deffuant–Weisbuch Model of Opinion Dynamics with Adaptive Confidence Bounds, Summer 2023.
Co-mentored with Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now a PhD student in Mathematics at Emory
Zhuying (Emily) Gong (UCLA '24), UCLA CAM REU, A Deffuant–Weisbuch Model of Opinion Dynamics with Adaptive Confidence Bounds, Summer 2023.
Co-mentored with Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now an Analyst at World Wide Technology
Arie Ogranovich (Rice Univ. '24), UCLA CAM REU, A Deffuant–Weisbuch Model of Opinion Dynamics with Adaptive Confidence Bounds, Summer 2023.
Co-mentored with Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at UCSB
Nicholas White (UNL '24), UCLA CAM REU, A Deffuant–Weisbuch Model of Opinion Dynamics with Adaptive Confidence Bounds, Summer 2023.
Co-mentored with Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now a Ph.D. student in Mathematics at University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Sean H. Kawano. "Analyzing Public Electric Vehicle Charging Station Coverage Using Persistent Homology," UW Undergraduate Research Symposium, May 15, 2025.
Makenna Greenwalt, Kelvin Luu, and Ahoora Tamizifar. "Exploring Patterns in Mathematics Faculty Hiring with Persistent Homology," JMM PME Contributed Session on Research by Undergraduates, January 2025.
Erin O'Neil. "Evaluating Cooling Center Coverage Using Persistent Homology of a Filtered Witness Complex," UCLA Women in Math Research Talks, 2024.
Max Collins, Emily Gong, Arie Ogranovich, and Nicholas White. "A Deffuant-Weisbuch Model of Opinion Dynamics with Adaptive Confidence Bounds," JMM AMS-PME Undergraduate Student Poster Session, January 2024.