Student Research

Interested in doing math research with me? I always welcome students with a few key qualities: curiosity, critical thinking, persistence, and attention to details. Your current stage of mathematical study comes next; I am interested in working with students at different levels.

My past work with students were in various formats, including research projects, independent study (courses), reading courses:

• Research Projects

  Loyola has established programs that aim on promoting undergraduate research. Check out the LUROP website and read the website through. It contains a lot of useful information.

• Seminar Courses

  MATH 298 (1 credit, run every Spring) and MATH 390 (2 credits, run every Spring) are dedicated to students’ work in research. They are both approved Engaged Learning courses with 3 credits togather and meet the Loyola’s EL requirement.

  See examples of their syllabi here.

• Independent Study

  This is for advanced students who are interested in learning beyond standard curricular offered at Loyola. The

  • MATH 395/495
    • TBD, Fall 2025
  • COMP 495
    • PDE Methods in Image Processing, Spring 2025

• Reading Courses

  The topics should be about advanced materials. A few that I have mentored at Loyola:

  • Functional Analysis
  • Pointset Topology and Analysis

If you are still interested this far, feel free to contact me with questions, either via an email or stop by during my open office hours.

Past and current students I mentored/am mentoring:

• Merisa Kraja, Spring 2025 - present
• Walter McGavran, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
• Daleney Rager, Fall 2024 - present
• Avery Boland, Summer 2024 - present
• Chloe Ramirez, Summer 2024 - Spring 2025
• Babel Barm, Summer 2024
• Joey Dingillo, Fall 2023 - Spring 2025
• Amanda Newton: Summer 2023 - present
• Cecily Bartsch: Summer 2023 - Spring 2025
• Miguel Diaz: Summer 2023
• Elizabeth Joseph: Summer 2023

They have presented their work in various places, including

• URES (annually held by Loyola, often in early-mid April)
• CAURS (annually, often in early-mid April)
• Joint Math Meetings (annually, often in early January; largest gathering of mathematicians in the United States, and the largest annual meeting of mathematicians in the world)
• Departmental (math & stat) Student Colloquium (often held in the Fall)

External Opportunities

Several of my past students have successfully obtained Summer REUs. Here are a few places as examples:

• Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
• IIT Summer REU ‘SURE’
• NSF REU Search

You can find more information here.