Current and Past Students at UNR

Graduate Students

• Bishal Lamichhane
  Dissertation Topic: Network science
  Independent Study F23: Large languate models in network science
  Ph.D. Student in Statistics & Data Science (Aug 2023-present)
  
  
• Samuel Sadovia
  Masters Thesis: Comparative investigation of fitting power law type distributions.
  M.S. Student in Statistics & Data Science (Fall 2022-present)
  
  
• Andrew Chavez
  Masters Thesis: TBA
  Research Assistant F23: Modeling and analysis of interaction networks across phytochemical landscapes
  M.S. Student in Statistics & Data Science (Fall 2023-present)
  
  
• Tyler Ewing
  Masters Thesis: Modeling gene regulation by MicroRNA in cancer
  M.S. Student in Statistics & Data Science (Fall 2023-present)
  

Undergraduate Students

• Ramona Tobey
  Project: Modeling Lahontan cutthroat trout population dynamics in Nevada (Fall 2023-present)
  B.S. Student in Mathematics: Statistics Specialization
  
  
• Lalise Gizaw
  Project: The effect of memorization versus understanding on student performance in undergraduate math courses (Fall 2022-present)
  Funding: Nevada Undergraduate Research Award (NURA), Summer/Fall 2023
  McNair Scholar 2022-24
  Honors Student
  B.S. Student in Mathematics: Applied Mathematics Specialization and CSE; Honors Program
  
  
• Adrian Samberg
  Project: A Mathematical Model of Sleep-Wake Patterns in the Developing Rat (Summer 2021-present)
  Funding: Nevada Undergraduate Research Award (NURA), Spring 2022
  B.S. Mathematics: Applied Mathematics Specialization; B.S. Neuroscience, May 2022
  

Former Students

• Grant Pellegrini
  Project: Statistics and data visualization of homelessness in Reno (Summer 2023-Fall 2023)
  B.S. Student in Mathematics: Statistics Specialization
  
  
• Jacob Freed
  Project 1: Using Markov chains to outline the probability of alcohol dependence in alcoholics (Summer 2021-Fall 2022)
  Project 2: A stochastic model of seizure initiation (Spring 2023-Summer 2023)
  B.S. Mathematics: Applied Mathematics Specialization; B.S. Neuroscience, May 2023
  
  
• Ibraheem Khan*
  Masters Thesis: The horizontal tunnelability of a Harris path is the degree sequence of its tree's dual (May 2023-Aug 2023)
  M.S. Statistics & Data Science, Aug 2023
  *Formerly a student of Ilya Zaliapin
  
  
• Hawkeye Plank
  Project: Mathematical model of key gene interactions involved in aging (Fall 2022)
  B.S. Student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biolgy, Math Minor
  
  
• Natasha Lang
  Masters Thesis: An analysis of threshold models on networks: Modeling social contagions and infectious diseases (Summer 2021 - Spring 2022)
  M.S. Statistics & Data Science, May 2022
  
  
• Kevin Bumgartner
  Project: Relaxing the constant population size constraint in models of random genetic drift (Spring 2016-Spring 2020, Summer 2021-Spring 2022)
  Funding: NASA RiSE and HoP Scholarship, 2017
  B.S. Mathematics: Statistics Specialization; Economic Policy Minor, May 2022
  
  
• Griffin Wagenknecht
  Project: Statistical analysis of psychomotor vigilance task data (Summer 2021-Dec 2021)
  B.S. Mathematics: Statistics Specialization, May 2022
  
  
• Dana Winterringer
  Honors Thesis: Modeling the influence of diet on the progression to colorectal cancer (Summer 2019-Spring 2021)
  Project: Gene regulatory network model: p53 - MDM2 complex (Fall 2018-Spring 2019)
  Funding: Nevada Undergraduate Research Award (NURA), 2020-21; Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), 2020-21
  B.S. Mathematics: Statistics Specialization; Big Data minor, May 2021
  
  
• Ben Claassen
  Masters Thesis: Statistical analysis and classification of American cities in terms of economic indicators (Fall 2017-Spring 2019)
  M.S. Mathematics: Statistics Specialization, May 2019
  
  
• Brittany Lemmon
  Honors Thesis: Epidemics on adaptive networks: norovirus as a case study (Fall 2018-Spring 2019)
  Funding: Honors Undergraduate Research Award (HURA), Spring 2019
  B.S. Mathematics: Statistics Specialization, May 2019
  
  
• Catalina Medina
  Project: Host-pathogen dynamics: Insights from analyzing data with nonlinear mixed effect dynamic models (Spring 2018-Spring 2019)
  McNair Scholar 2018-19
  B.S. Mathematics: Statistics Specialization, May 2019
  Co-advisor: Paul Hurtado
  
  
• Joanna Armstrong
  Masters Thesis: Developing a General Method for Analyzing Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) Data: Modeling Sleep Inertia in Children (Spring 2017-Summer 2018)
  M.S. Mathematics: Statistics Specialization, Aug 2018
  
  
• Narae Wadsworth
  Project: Constructing continuous time Markov chains from empirical hitting time distributions (Fall 2017-Summer 2018)
  B.S. Mathematics (Statistics Specialization); B.A. Economics, May 2018
  Co-advisor: Paul Hurtado
  
  
• Amanda Fredrickson
  Honors Thesis: Analyzing and comparing choreographic structure in dance from Laban notated scores (Spring 2016-Spring 2017)
  B.S. Mathematics (Statistics Specialization); Dance minor; Business Administration minor, May 2017
  Co-advisor: Paul Hurtado
  
  
• Robert Arnold
  Honors Thesis: Changes in the coefficients of Zipf's law for English corpora of different contexts (Spring-Fall 2015)
  B.A. Mathematics (Statistics Specialization), Dec 2015
  
  

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