Fall 2025 mentors and their projects
| Project | Mentors | Mentees |
|---|---|---|
| 1 (AM-Reading-1): How Math Unveils the Secrets of Infectious Diseases Like COVID-19 | Zoya Abbasi | Paige Li, Zunairah Shahzad |
| 2 (AM-Reading-2): Integrative Approaches to Cancer Research: Bridging Mathematical Modeling, Machine Learning, and Tumor-on-a-Chip Technologies | Mohsen Rezaeian | Victoria Kolb, Georgina Wang, Lily Jiang, Siri Sujay |
| 3 (AM-Reading-3): Using Graph Theory for Coordination and Control of a Swarm of Drones | Hassaan Qazi | Christina Zijun He, Bandana Bajaj |
| 4 (AM-Reading-4): From Bone to Blood: Age-Driven Changes in Calcium Homeostasis | Zaheer Mohideen | Andrea Lagunes Betanzos, Isabella Wang |
| 5 (AM-Research-5): Solving PDEs by using Attention mechanism | Maryam Yalsavar | Xena Jiang, Sandy Banh |
| 6 (CO-Reading-1): Algorithmic Game Theory | Rian Neogi | Saransh Jindal, Stella Xiao |
| 7 (CO-Reading-2): Log-concave polynomials and applications | Maryam Mohammadi Yekta | Danielle Rodgers, Erin Guerard |
| 8 (CO-Reading-3): The Hadwiger's Conjecture | Xinyue Fan | Heer Mehta, Evan Rosen |
| 10 (CO-Research-5): Evaluating symmetric functions at partitions | Harper Niergarth | Vixail Hadelyn, Wenhui Li, Weiyou Li |
| 11 (CO-Research-6): Graphs in Lean | Fernanda Rivera Omana, Noah Weninger | Richard Zhang, Elaine Zhao, Betty Zhang |
| 12 (CO-Research-7): Applying PDHG to the Minimum Volume Ellipsoid Problem | Matthew Hough, Viktor Pavlovic | Eason Li, Qinyi Guo |
| 13 (CS-Reading-1): How People Seek Security AND Privacy Advice from LLMs |
Shanza Shanza | Na Peng, Shu Cong, Yizhou Lou |
| 14 (CS-Reading-2): Approximation algorithms for NP-Hard problems | Layth Ali Al-Hellawi | Leon Yang, Gloria Jianan Wang, Taiqian Zhang |
| 15 (CS-Reading-3): An Introduction to Quantum Computing through ZX Calculus | Vyom Patel | Caroline Knoke, Susie Cao |
| 16 (CS-Reading-4): Can neural networks actually learn? | Kaleb Domenico Ruscitti | Alex Palmer, Mathilda Lee, Simran Matharu |
| 17 (CS-Reading-5): Private Messaging | Vecna | Melanie Foltak, Sarah Nurse, Xinyi Chen |
| 18 (CS-Reading-6): Fairness Evaluation for Language Models | Yiran Hu | Jiarui Han, Eileen Wen |
| 19 (CS-Reading-7): Intelligent Automation for Accelerating the Repair of Software Build Failures | Gengyi Sun | Lily Li, Bhavya (Bhavya) Modi, Anwesha Bali, Deepika Anbalagan |
| 20 (PM-Reading-1): The other cross product | Faisal Romshoo | Chandni Wadhwa, Margaret Puzio, Khushi Adukia |
| 21 (PM-Reading-2): Ramsey theory with analytic methods | Jashan Bal | Megan Winterburn, Yanna Jaskielewicz |
| 22 (PM-Reading-3): A First Look at p-adic Numbers | Michelle Molino | Chelsea Kim, Changhong Li, Tamar Gendler, Jessica Ni |
| 23 (PM-Reading-4): Elliptic Curves | Faisal Al-Faisal | Xing Liu, Emily Wang |
| 24 (PM-Reading-5): Sobolev space and PDEs | Roger Gu | AJ Carson, Irene Chung, Cynthia Zhang |
| 25 (PM-Reading-6): Formalizing analysis in Lean | Sita Gakkhar | Cristian Moretto, Bowen Dai, Kris Zhang |
| 26 (PM-Research-7): Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic Statistics | Alex Cowan | Sally Ann Hui, Peter Yang, Suhao Hu |
| 27 (PM-Research-8): Dimer transitions and cluster transformation of toric Landau-Ginzburg models | Jesse Huang | Elizabeth Cai, Kenneth Xiao |
| 28 (SAS-Reading-1): Stop Wasting Data! How Sequential Testing Beats Fixed-Sample Experiments | Kyu Min Shim | Drishti Handa, Jie Yang |
| 29 (SAS-Reading-2): Multitask Learning for Cross-Asset Price Prediction | Hao Quan | Gabrielle Wu, Xinyi Nie, Violet Song |
| 30 (SAS-Reading-3): Exploring Climate Risk in Finance and Insurance | Rhoda Dadzie-Dennis, Minh Chau Nguyen | Shreya Jain, Suneet Kaur Mahal, Milagro Chen |
| 31 (SAS-Reading-4): Exploring Hotel Operations and Customer Behavior through Data Analytics | Yan Yu | Briana Peng, Iris Mo |
| 32 (SAS-Reading-5): Introduction to Modern Probability Theory | Joshua Joseph George | Sri Meghana Yarlagadda, Madison Han, Chaozhong Wang, Parithy Senthamilarasan |
| 33 (SAS-Research-6): Risk and Uncertainty: Math Behind Everyday Decisions | Jingcheng Yu | Nyra Rodrigues, Yurim Song, Cindy Yang, Wincy Huang |
| 34 (SAS-Research-7): Meta-Analytic Evaluation of Volleyball Metrics | David Awosoga | Anna Takegawa, Yushi Liu, Allie Dong |
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