Graduate Students and Postdocs

Because of my administrative duties as Dean I am not looking for new graduate students right now. Please check back in the not too distant future!

Current PhD students

• Jingyu Lu, since January 2026

Current Masters students

• Michael Xu, since January 2026

Completed PhD students

• Joseph Haraldson. PhD. Computer Science. Matrix Polynomials and their Lower Rank Approximations. 2019. Currently: Amazon.
• Mustafa Elsheikh. PhD. Computer Science. Smith Normal Form over Local Rings and Related Problems. 2017. Currently: Facebook.
• Albert Heinle. PhD. Computer Science. Computational Approaches to Problems in Noncommutative Algebra -- Theory, Applications and Implementations. 2016. Currently:
• Andrew Arnold. PhD. Computer Science. Sparse polynomial interpolation and testing. 2016. Currently: Google.
• Daniel S. Roche. Ph.D. Computer Science. Efficient Computation with Sparse and Dense Polynomials. 2011. Currently: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, U.S. Naval Academy.
• Jason Selby. Ph.D. Computer Science. Unconventional Applications of Compiler Analysis. 2011. Currently: Kernel Developer, Maplesoft Inc.
• M. Jason Hinek. Ph.D. Computer Science. On the Security of Some Variants of RSA. 2007. Currently: Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Carleton University.
• Yang Zhang. Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (UWO). Algorithms for Noncommutative Differential Operators. 2004. Currently: Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba.

Completed Masters students

• Saiyue Lyu Faster Algorithms for Sparse Decomposition and Sparse Series Solutions to Differential Equations , 2022. Current: PhD student, UBC
• Jesse Elliott. M. Math. Analysis of Randomized Algorithms in Real Algebraic Geometry, 2020. Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Paris.
• Nam Pham. M. Math. A Symbolic-Numeric Approach to the Projection Method. Currently: Amazon.
• Kelvin Chung. M. Math. Using Integer Programming in Finding t-Designs. 2012. Currently: Twitter.
• Fei Wang. M. Math. Finding Orthogonal Designs with Gröbner Bases. 2011. Postdoctoral researcher at KTH.
• Hrushikesh Tilak. M.Math. Computing sparse multiples of polynomials, 2010. Currently: Google.
• Ruitong Huang. M.Math. Decomposition of Finite-Dimensional Matrix Algebras over F_q(y). 2010. Currently: Borealis AI.
• Myung Sub Kim. M.Math. Hermite form computation of matrices of differential polynomials. 2009. Currently: VMWare.
• Chao Li, M.Math. Lattice Compression of Polynomial Matrices. 2007. Currently: Google.
• Brad Botting. M.Math. Structured Total Least Squares for Approximate Polynomial Operations. 2004. Currently: IBM, Canada.
• Bradford Hovinen. M.Math Blocked Lanczos-style Algorithms over Small Finite Fields. 2004.
• Yang Zhang, Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics, UWO). Thesis title: Algorithms for Non-Commutative Differential Operators. 2004.
• Ivo Moravec, M.Math. Thesis title: Fast Arithmetic and Code Generation for Univariate Functions. 2004.
• Fraser Ruffell, M.Math. Thesis title: Lightweight Statistical Trace Selection for the Dynamic Optimization of Programs. 2004.

Previous Postdoctoral Fellows

• Armin Japshidpey, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
• Hui Huang, Associate Professor, Fuzhou University
• Qiaolong Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Shandong University
• Andy Novocin, Associate Professor, University of Delaware. Newark, DE, USA.
• Clément Pernet, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
• Pascal Giorgi, Department of Computer Science, University Montpellier 2, France
• John May, Department of Computer Science, University of Delaware, USA
• Wen-shin Lee, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Arne Storjohann, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Ilias Kotsirieas, Department of Computing, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada