Recent Graduates

Mohammed Aburidi

Ph.D. 2024
maburidi@ucmerced.edu

Jacqueline Alvarez

Ph.D. 2025
jalvarez94@ucmerced.edu

Melissa Anisko

Assistant Professor at Diablo Valley College (M.S. 2020)
manisko@dvc.edu

Mario Banuelos

Assistant Professor at California State University, Fresno (Ph.D. 2018)
mbanuelos22@csufresno.edu
https://www.mbgmath.com/
Shayna Bennett

Shayna Bennett

M.S. 2022
sbennett3@ucmerced.edu
Adam Binswanger

Adam Binswanger

PHD. 2024
abinswanger@ucmerced.edu

Johannes Brust

Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne National Laboratory (Ph.D. 2018)
jbrust@anl.gov

Jordan Collignon

Ph.D. 2024

Phoebe Coy

Data Scientist at Department of Defense (M.S. 2020)
pcoy@ucmerced.edu

Valentin Dallerit

Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Merced (Ph.D. 2022)
vdallerit@ucmerced.edu

Ashley De Luna

M.S. 2020
adeluna3@ucmerced.edu

Omar DeGuchy

Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (Ph.D. 2020)
deguchy1@llnl.gov

Kylie Freitas

MS. 2025
kfreitas@ucmerced.edu
ACS 342B

Indar Freitas

MS. 2025
ifreitas@ucmerced.edu
ACS 342B

Cayce Fylling

Ph.D. 2025
cfylling@ucmerced.edu

Vaibhav Gupta

Graphics Hardware Engineer at Intel Corporation (M.S. 2018)
vgupta2@ucmerced.edu

Tucker Hartland

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Ph.D. 2022)
hartland1@llnl.gov
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tucker-hartland/
Ali Heydari

Ali Heydari

Research Scientist at Google (Ph.D. 2023)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hey-ali

Alex Ho

PHD. 2025
aho38@ucmerced.edu
ACS 362A

Christine Hoffman

Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics at Dominican University of California (Phd. 2020)
choffman7@ucmerced.edu

Li-Hsuan Huang

Lecturer at UC Merced (Ph.D. 2018)
lhuang33@ucmerced.edu

Amandeep Kaur

M.S. 2023
akaur87@ucmerced.edu

Benjamin Latham

PHD. 2025
blatham@ucmerced.edu
ACS 338A

Andrew Lazar

Instructor at De Anza College (M.S. 2021)
lazarandrew@deanza.edu
https://www.andrew-lazar.com/

Lori Lewis

Tenure-track Teaching Position at Santa Rosa Junior College (M.S. 2020)
llewis@santarosa.edu

Yu Lu

PHD. 2025
ylu54@ucmerced.edu
ACS 358B

Cory Mccullough

cmccullough2@ucmerced.edu
ACS 338A

Tri (Alex) Nguyen

Lecturer
tnguyen478@ucmerced.edu
ACS 330C

Jocelyn Ornelas-Munoz

PHD. 2025
jornelasmunoz@ucmerced.edu
ACS 338C
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joornelas/

Jack Pham

MS. 2025
tpham82@ucmerced.edu
ACS 358B

Matteo Polimeno

Postdoctoral Researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) (Ph.D. 2024)
mpolimeno@ucmerced.edu

Maia Powell

Ph.D. 2024
mpowell2@ucmerced.edu
https://www.mmpowell.com
Alex John Quijano

Alex John Quijano

Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics at Reed College (Ph.D. 2021)
aquijano4@ucmerced.edu
https://www.alexjohnquijano.com/

Shagun Rawat

Software engineer at Google (Ph.D. 2018)
srawat2@ucmerced.edu

Majerle Reeves

Ph.D. 2023
mreeves3@ucmerced.edu

Eric Roberts

Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Ph.D. 2019)
ejroberts@lbl.gov

Fabian Santiago

Postdoc at University of Arizona (Ph.D. 2021)
fsantiago3@ucmerced.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fsantiago7

Matea Santiago

Postdoc at University of Arizona (Ph.D. 2021)
malvarado27@ucmerced.edu

Jared Stewart

Ph.D. 2024
jstewart23@ucmerced.edu

Michael T. Stobb

Assistant Professor at Coe College (Ph.D. 2019)
michael@stobb.org
https://www.stobb.org/

Tanya Tafolla

PHD. 2024
ttafolla@ucmerced.edu

Jessica R. Taylor

Ph.D. 2019
jtaylor5@ucmerced.edu
http://www.jrtaylorphd.com
Radoslav Vuchkov

Radoslav Vuchkov

Postdoctoral Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories (Ph.D. 2022)
rvuchkov@ucmerced.edu

Scott West

PHD. 2025
swest10@ucmerced.edu
ACS 338B

Kyle Wright

Ph.D. 2025
kwright11@ucmerced.edu

Eunji Yoo

Ph.D. 2023
eyoo3@ucmerced.edu