Doctoral Student Profiles

I grew up in Baltimore then moved to western New York for my undergraduate studies. I’ve taken an interest in differential equations, dynamical systems, and data science and am pursuing these at WPI.  

My name is Elisa Negrini and I am a PhD student in the Mathematical Sciences department. I come from Italy and obtained my undergraduate and master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Bologna in 2015 and 2017, respectively. Since my first year as a PhD student, I have developed a strong interest in the mathematical foundations of data science problems; in particular, my research interests focus on deep neural networks which have demonstrated stunning empirical results across many applications (like vision, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning), but for which ...

My research areas are financial mathematics and stochastic analysis.

I began my PhD studies as a presidential fellow at WPI in the fall of 2020. My current research interest is in financial mathematics, specifically in portfolio optimization and risk management.

I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences. I obtained my Master's degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

Evan is from Chelmsford, Massachusetts and graduated from Brandeis University in 2020. Before and after graduation, he did computational research on the self-assembly of bacterial microcompartments and viral capsids. He then worked in the pharmaceutical industry before deciding to continue his education at WPI, where he is now a PhD candidate. He has a passion for math and music.

I am a first year PhD student in Mathematical Sciences. My current research interests are in numerical methods and applied math. Outside of math, I enjoy working out, soccer, and video games.

Hello I am Taorui, you can also call me Mason.I am interested in teaching math and applied novel engineering methods to solve complex math problems. I like fishing and hiking.

I am Zihang Xu, the second year PhD student in statistics. My research interest will be Bayesian Statistics. I graduated from Jilin University in China and got my master in George Washington University. My major was statistics.