Alumni
Ph.D. graduates
Jordi Ventura Siches, PhD 2025
International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Barcelona, Spain
Asmaa Eldesoukey, PhD 2025
Postdoctoral fellow, Iowa State University
Olga Movilla Miangolarra, PhD 2023
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
Mahmoud Abdelgalil, PhD 2023 (co-advised)
University at Buffalo
Anqi Dong, PhD 2023
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Amirhossein Karimi, PhD 2022
First American Financial Corp.
Zahra Askarzadeh, PhD 2021
Meta
Rui Fu, PhD 2020
Nanjing University, China
Hamza Farooq, PhD 2017
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yongxin Chen, PhD 2016
Georgia Tech, Atlanta
Lipeng Ning, PhD 2013
Harvard, Boston
Xianhua Jiang, PhD 2012 — Starkey Technologies, Minnesota
Shahrouz Mir Takyar, PhD 2012 — Uber, San Francisco
Gerald Mtatifikolo, PhD 2007 — August Electronics, Alberta
Ali Nasiri Amini, PhD 2005 — Google
Subbarao Varigonda, PhD 2001 — Carrier Corp.
Ian Fialho, PhD 1997 — Boeing
Chin Chang, PhD 1993 — Semtech Corp., California
Craig Shankwitz, PhD 1992 — Montana State University
Postdoctoral advisees
Asmaa Eldesoukey, 2025–2026
Iowa State University
Olga Movilla Miangolarra, 2023–2024
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
Wuwei Wu
City University of Hong Kong
Fariba Ariaei, 2019–2022
UC Irvine and CSU Long Beach
Amirhossein Taghvaei, 2019–2021
University of Washington, Seattle
Rui Fu, 2020–2021
Nanjing University, China
Luigia Ripani, 2017–2018
Crédit Agricole Assurances, France
Abhishek Halder, 2016–2017
Iowa State University
Kaoru Yamamoto, 2015–2016
Kyushu University
Francesca Carli, 2013–2014
University of Cambridge, UK
Visiting scholars
M.S. students
Qiaoqian Hu, MS 2018