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Prof. Lei, Yue receives UC Merced Senate Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching

May 9, 2025
At the May 7, 2025, Meeting of the Merced Division of the Academic Senate, it was announced that Prof. Lei, Yue is this year's recipient of the Senate Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching for Senate Faculty.  This award recognizes a Senate faculty member for exceptional...

Graduate student Lu, Yu defends PhD dissertation

April 30, 2025
Graduate student, Lu, Yu, successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled "Negative Binomial Optimization for Signal Processing, Medical Imaging, and Deep Learning Applications," on April 30, 2025.  Lu, Yu is advised by Prof. Roummel Marcia.  His committee...

Graduate student Jocelyn Ornelas-Munoz defends PhD dissertation

April 24, 2025
Graduate student, Jocelyn Ornelas-Muñoz, successfully defended her PhD thesis, titled "Constrained Optimization for Regularizing Machine Learning Techniques to Improve Generalizability," on April 24, 2025.  Jocelyn is co-advised by Prof. Erica Rutter and Prof. Roummel Marcia....

The Applied Mathematics Department having fun hosting tables on Bobcat Day 2025

April 19, 2025
During Bobcat Day 2025 (Saturday, April 19), we promoted our Applied Mathematics undergraduate program as well as the Data Science & Computing undergraduate program by hosting tables. Several faculty members as well as the undergraduate student volunteers welcomed prospective students and their...