Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) - Alumni

The REU program at WPI creates lasting relationships between its participants. After spending an intense 8 weeks living and working together, they become almost like a family. We at WPI are proud of all of our family members and would like to give you a glimpse of their work and accomplishments.

If you have any questions or need advice you can contact us by email.

Ane Caughlin, REU 1998

1999: graduated from Bates College with B.S. in mathematics

2001: graduated from Boston College with M.S. in mathematics

Currently teaching math in Braintree High School, Braintree MA

Kristin Duncan, REU 1998

May 1999: graduated from University of Dayton with B.S. in mathematics

Summer 2000: won ASA Student Paper Competition

June 2001: graduated from Ohio State University with M.S. in statistics

Summer 2001, 2002: REU assistant for biostatistics at Ohio State University

August 2002: married

Currently working on Ph.D. in statistics at Ohio State University

Ellen Phifer, REU 1998

Completed M.S. in Applied Math at U. of Delaware

Now working in defense industry

Jonathan Van Haste, REU 1998

1999: graduated from Calvin College with a B.S. in mathematics

2001: graduated from Mont Clair University with M.S. in statistics

Currently works at AC Nilson, a market research firm

Brian Ball, REU 1999

Summer 1999: REU Assistant

May 2001: graduated from WPI in Mathematics and Physics

Currently pursuing graduate studies at North Carolina State University in Computational and Applied Mathematics

Adopted a dog named Zoe

Chris Shane, REU 1999

May 2000: graduated from Kansas State University with B.S. in Mathematics

December 2002: graduated from Kansas State University with M.S. in Mathematics

Currently Actuary for Lafayette Life Insurance, Indiana

Sarah Winnie, REU 1999

2000: graduated from Hamilton College with B.A in Mathematics

2002: graduated from University of East Anglia (England) with M.Sc. in environmental sciences (math modeling concentration)

Brooke Anderson, REU 2000

January 2001: presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans

Summer 2001: attended summer institute at Carnegie Mellon University

2002: graduated from Centre College in Mathematics

Currently teaching math at Lexington High School, Lexington MA

Michael Escovitz, REU 2000

Ed De Guzman, REU 2000

Summer 2001: participated in Computer Science REU at UMass-Amherst while doing research for the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval

2001-2002: was undergraduate researcher for the Vision, Interaction, Language, Logic, and Graphics Environment (VILLAGE) Research Group

May 2002: completed a senior honors thesis in Computer Science and graduated from Rutgers University with a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics

Currently is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California-Berkeley

Barb Hess (Bennie), REU 2000

January 2001: presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans

February 2001: participated in COMAP math modeling competition with outstanding rating

May 2001: graduated from Bethel College

Fall 2001: began graduate studies in Statistics at University of Minnesota

Garth Johnson, REU 2000

2000-2001: research at University of Central Arkansas was presented at MAA, Arkansas Academic of Sciences and Arkansas Space Grant Consortium conferences

2002: graduated

2001: attended joint conference in San Diego and presented his undergraduate thesis: "Exact Solutions to the Variable Speed Wave Equations Through Darboux Transformations"

Jon Kennedy, REU 1998 & REU 2000

May 2000: graduated from WPI in physics

Summer 2000: REU assistant at WPI

January 2002: graduated from Boston University with M.A in Physics

August 2002: began working on his PhD in Applied Math at WPI

Wendy Kooiman, REU 2000

December 2000: graduated from Grand Valley State University in math

January 2001: Worked for Smiths Industries Aerospace as a Military Systems Engineer

May 2003: Graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with M.S degree in Operations Research and Statistics

January 2001: Working at Smiths Industries Aerospace in Kentwood, MI as an Integrated Navigation Systems Engineer

January 2004: Began studying for M.Eng Electrical Engineering at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI

Doug Mitarotonda, REU 2000

Fall 2000: research work on solar power lights in Nepal

January 2001: presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans

Summer 2001: working for CIA in Washington, D.C.

May 2002: graduated from Cornell University in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Asian Studies

Fall 2002: attending Cornell University for Master of Engineering in Computer Science

Summer 2002: worked at MIT Lincoln lab

Sandor Swartz, REU 2000

Summer 2001: participating in research at U. of Missouri-Rolla

December 2001: graduated from U. of Missouri-Rolla

Katie Tranbarger, REU 2000

June 2001: graduated from California Polytechnic State University in statistics

Fall 2001: began Ph.D. in statistics at UCLA

Dec. 2002: graduated from UCLA with M.S in statistics

Rebecca Wasyk, REU 2000

December 2000: graduated from James Madison University in Mathematics

January 2001: presented at AMS/MAA Joint Math Meeting in New Orleans

Summer 2001: REU assistant at WPI

Fall 2001: began graduate studies at Brandeis University

Fall 2003: began Ph.D. studies in Applied Mathematics at WPI

Blythe Ashcraft, REU 2001

May 2002: graduated from Centre College, Danville, KY, with a B.S. in mathematics

January 2002: presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego

Fall 2002: began working toward a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Wake Forest University of Winston-Salem, NC

Katherine Kline, REU 2001

May 2002: graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Mathematics

Fall 2002: began graduate studies in Systems Science and Mathematics at Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Ivan Ramler, REU 2001

January 2002: presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego with Thomas Wakefield - won award

May 2002: graduated from University of Minnesota-Morris in Mathematics and Statistics

Summer 2002: REU assistant at WPI

Fall 2002: began graduate studies in Statistics at Iowa State University

Erin Renk, REU 2001

May 2002: graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors in economics and mathematics (B.Sc.) from the University of Pittsburgh

Fall 2002: began work as a civilian Operations Research Analyst at the Naval Air Systems Command.

Jennica Sherwood, REU 2001

December 2002: graduated magna cum laude with a degree in mathematics from the University of San Francisco

May 2003: Participant in the 2003 Program for Women in Mathematics in Mathematical Biology, Institute for Advanced Study & Princeton University

Fall 2003: began Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University Brain Institute

Thomas Wakefield, REU 2001

May 2002: graduated from Youngstown State Unversity in Mathematics and Economics

January 2002: presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego with Ivan Ramler - won award

Fall 2002: began Ph.D. studies in Mathematics at Kent State University

Andrew Jalil, REU 2002

2004: graduating from Brown University with B.S in Mathematics and Economics

Alex Lenkoski, REU 2002

Graduate Student in Statistics at University of Washington

Borislav Mezhericher, REU 2002

2003: graduating from Queens College with B.A in Mathematics

January 2003: presented his REU project at the AMS meeting in Baltimore - won award

Graduate student at Columbia University

Sonja Petrovic, REU 2002

Ph.D. student in Algebra & Number Theory at Univ. of Kentucky

Ravi Srinivasan, REU 2002

Grad student in Applied Math at Brown University

David Stoltzfus, REU 2002

2003: graduating with a B.S in Mathematics from Asbury College

2006: Graduated with M.S in Applied Mathematics from WPI

Patricia Tong, REU 2002

2004: graduating from NYU with a B.S in Mathematics and Economics

Matthew Willyard, REU 2002

2003: will graduate from the University of Rochester

January 2003: presented his REU project at the AMS meeting in Baltimore - won award

Graduate student, Dept. of Mathematics, Florida State University

Amy Cohen, REU 2003

January 2004: co-presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in Phoenix, AZ

May 2004: graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a B.S. in Mathematics

June 2004: began work as an Actuarial Assistant at Liberty Mutual in Boston

Michael Coleman, REU 2003

January 2004: co-presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in Phoenix, AZ - won award

May 2004: graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in Mathematics and a minor in Astrophysics

Graduate student, Dept. of Mathematics, George Washington University

Adam Czernikowski, REU 2003

May 2004: graduated from Oberlin College with a B.Sc. in Mathematics

Graduate student in Industrial Engineering at University of Florida

Heather Griffin, REU 2003

May 2004: graduated from the University of Arkansas with a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Physics

Spring 2004: got married!

Mary Gruber, REU 2003

January 2004: co-presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in Phoenix, AZ

May 2004: graduated from Capital University

Fall 2004: will attend Michigan State University to pursue a Master's degree in Industrial Mathematics

Erin Haller, REU 2003

January 2004: co-presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in Phoenix, AZ - won award

May 2004: graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla

Graduate Student in Math at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Christopher Kim, REU 2003

January 2004: co-presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in Phoenix, AZ - won award

May 2004: graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematics

Fall 2004: will begin Ph.D. studies in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Chicago

Dr. Christopher Kim is a hospitalist in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. He completed medical school and his MBA training at the University of Chicago. He then completed his combined Med-Peds residency at the University of Michigan. His interests are in the business and administrative aspects of health care delivery.

He enjoys spending his free time his his wife and son Joshua, and playing golf at the fabulous University of Michigan golf courses.

Megan McKinney, REU 2003

January 2004: co-presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in Phoenix, AZ

May 2004: graduated from Slippery Rock University with a B.S. in Mathematics concentrating in Actuarial Mathematics, and a minors in Statistics and Economics

Works at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Trinh Pham, REU 2003

May 2004: graduated from Mills College

Fall 2004: will attend UC Berkeley to pursue a Master's degree in Statistics

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT

Sid Rupani, REU 2003

January 2004: co-presented at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting in Phoenix, AZ - won award

May 2004: graduated from WPI with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Fall 2004: will pursue an MS in Mechanical Engineering at WPI

Ph.D. Student in Engineering Systems at MIT

Erica Johnson, REU 2004

Grad. Student in Math at Univ. of New Hampshire

Andrew Magyar, REU 2004

Ph.D. student in Biostatistics at Rutgers University.

Kimberly Millard, REU 2004

Graduate Student in Math at Florida State University

Jessica Scheld, REU 2004

Graduater Student in Math at Uniersity of Vermont

Nathanial Burch, REU 2005

Spring of 2006: Got his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Grand Valley State University

Graduate Student in Math at Colorado State University

Plans on finishing up his M.S. in the spring of 2008 and staying at Colorado State University for his Ph.D.

Research interests include areas involving differential equations, numerical analysis, and probability. Currently working on a modeling project related to wireless ad hoc networks.

Sarah Hartenstein, REU 2005

Undergraduate student at Carroll College

Razvan Ionescu, REU 2005

Summer 2006: 4 months internship at New Reinsurance Company Geneva (Switzerland), worked on exposure curves (a pricing method) applied on the non-life contracts

Spring 2007: Graduaded from ISFA (Institut de Sciences Financières et Assurances) (Institute for Financial Science and Insurance) University Claude Bernard Lyon France in actuarial math

Summer 2007: 6 months internship at SCOR Global Life (Paris France) (SCOR is the biggest Life Reinsurer in France, number 7 in the world), working on disability pensions.

Alex Mills, REU 2005

Undergraduate student at College William and Mary

Christopher Mirabito, REU 2005

Graduate Student in Math at Univ. of Texas at Austin

Eugene Quan, REU 2005

May 2007: Graduated from Harvey Mudd in May

July 2007: Moved to Chicago to work at Citadel Investment Group.

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