Rory Gilles (HC '28)
Undergraduate Research Student
The Shape of Knowledge Acquisition
Man-Yo Hirota (HC '29)
Weiss Summer Research Student
Stability in the Lotka–Volterra Model
Sean H. Kawano (Univ. of Washington '26)
Undergraduate Research Student
Analyzing Public Electric Vehicle Charging Station Coverage Using Persistent Homology
Co-mentored with David Beers (UCLA)
Ben King (HC '28)
Weiss Summer Research Student
Topics in Resource Coverage
Lina Nguyen (HC '28)
Weiss Summer Research Student
Topics in Resource Coverage
Esther Osibajo (HC '27)
Weiss Summer Research Student
Topics in Resource Coverage
Abby Harito (HC '28), JD Power Center Research Associate, Spring 2026, Opinion Dynamics on Hypergraphs
Patrick Jackson (HC '28), JD Power Center Research Associate, Spring 2026, Opinion Dynamics on Hypergraphs
Jordan Lombardi (UCLA '26), Directed Research Project, Summer and Fall 2025, The ‘Rotten Apple’ Network: A Mathematical Analysis of Officer Co-Involvement in Use of Force and Misconduct Complaints
Colin Galbraith (UCLA '25), Directed Research Project, Spring 2025, AGeoABM: A Geospatial Agent-Based Model for Epidemic Spread
Now a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Utah
Makenna Greenwalt (Oregon State '25), UCLA Geometry + Topology REU, Summer 2024, Exploring Patterns in Mathematics Faculty Hiring with Persistent Homology
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, Summer 2024, Exploring Patterns in Mathematics Faculty Hiring with Persistent Homology
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
Co-mentored with Siddhanth Raman (UCI) and Mason Porter (UCLA)
Amy Somers (UC Santa Barbara '26), UCLA Geometry + Topology REU, Summer 2024, Persistent Homology Transform of Embedded Knots
Co-mentored with Siddhanth Raman (UCI) and Mason Porter (UCLA)
Ahoora Tamizifar (UC Irvine '25), UCLA Geometry + Topology REU, Summer 2024, Exploring Patterns in Mathematics Faculty Hiring with Persistent Homology
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, Fall 2023--Spring 2024, Evaluating Cooling Center Coverage Using Persistent Homology of a Filtered Witness Complex
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, Summer 2023, A Deffuant–Weisbuch Model of Opinion Dynamics with Adaptive Confidence Bounds
Co-mentored with Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now a PhD student in Mathematics at Emory
Zhuying (Emily) Gong (UCLA '24), UCLA CAM REU, Summer 2023, A Deffuant–Weisbuch Model of Opinion Dynamics with Adaptive Confidence Bounds
Co-mentored with Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now an Analyst at World Wide Technology
Arie Ogranovich (Rice Univ. '24), UCLA CAM REU, Summer 2023, A Deffuant–Weisbuch Model of Opinion Dynamics with Adaptive Confidence Bounds
Co-mentored with Mason Porter (UCLA)
Now a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at UCSB
Nicholas White (UNL '24), UCLA CAM REU, Summer 2023, A Deffuant–Weisbuch Model of Opinion Dynamics with Adaptive Confidence Bounds
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.