Senior Projects Advisees

Year Students and Projects Pictures What they do after SPU
2020

Matthew Tsutsui


Curve Modeling


(Year of Covid 19. No pictures taken together.)

Graduate School
M.S. Mathematics
Portland State University

2019

Robert Chung


Preprocessing with Clustering to Avoid Convolution

(Oustanding Graduates 2019)

Software Engineer (2019)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2019

Sion Park

Face Recognition and PCA

Software Developer (2020)
at Faithlife
2018

Amy Hu

Building A
Recommender System
for
Music App Users

(Oustanding Graduates 2018)

Graduate School
M.S. Quantitative Finance and Risk Analytics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Technology Specialist
T-Mobile

2018

Delsey Sabu

Data Clustering Algorithms:
K-Means vs. MKmeans

(Outstanding Graduates 2018)

Software Engineer (2019)

2018

Elise Bishoff

Using Logistic Regression
for
Churn Prediction

Graduate School
M.S. Applied Mathematics
University of Washington

Data Scientist (2020)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Seattle Campus

2017

Brittany Dygert

Biclustering of Gene Expression Data

Graduate School
Ph.D. Program in Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington

2017

Laura Wood

Reconstruction of the Flight Path of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Graduate School
Ph.D. Program in Physics Education
Michigan State University
2016

Leah Wurst


Illustrating Calculus Concepts with SageMath

Try out Leah's interactive illustrations!

1. Tangent Line
2. Mean Value Thoerem
3. Riemann Sum


Graduate School
MA in Teaching
Whitworth University

2016

 

Jonathan Van Schenck

Hierarchical Data Clustering

 

Graduate School
Ph.D. Program in Phyiscs
Oregon State University
2016

 

Ashley Sonan

Image Compression and Singular Value Decomposition

 

Engineer
SPAWAR
Hawaii

 

2015

 

Caylee Daniel

Connections Between the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci Sequence

(Co-advised with Dr. O'Leary)

 

 

Caylee teaches mathematics at Renton High School, Renton, WA
2015

 

Kirsten Knutson

Approximating Human Mortality

 




Kirsten is an Actuarial Analyst in Blue Cross of Idaho

Motto: "You're Either Smart Or You're Lucky"

2014

Ainsley Hiegel

Modeling Terrorist Networks with Graph Theory

Ainsley is an data integrity contractor at Box in CA
2013

Ellen Kim

Cluster Analysis

Ellen is a youth pastor at Puget Sound Christian Center
2012

Dawn Washio

The PageRank Algorithm

Dawn is a track coach and Math teacher at Cedar Park Christian Schools in Bothell, WA

Video Profile

2012

Liz Berg

Analysis of Spatial Competition Using Voronoi Diagrams

Graduate School:
M.S. Program
Oregon State University
(Graduated June, 2015)

Data & Analytics Consultant (2018)
at Slalom

 

2012

Sabrina Houser

A Recursive Approach to Matrix Inversion Using Parallel Processing on a Multicore processor

(Co-advised with Dr. Phil Prins)

Sabrina is working as a Software Developer for the Boeing Company
2011

Martha Shrauger

Superconcentrators

(Co-advised with Dr. O'Leary)

Martha is working as a Spanish Language Assessment's Tester for Dual Language Programs with the Bellevue School District, WA

2011

Lauren Anderson

Modeling the Transmission of AIDS

(Co-advised with Dr. O'Leary)

Lauren teaches Math at Bellevue Christian School, Bellevue, WA
2010

Kay Chikos

Mathematics Behind the GPS

Kay teaches Math at Bellevue High School, Bellevue, WA

2009

Kaylee Linthicum

Optimization of Large Scale Linear Programming Problems Using Heuristic Algorithms

Professional Master of Science (2011), Industrial Mathematics, Michigan State University

Kaylee is working as an Applied Mathematician for the Boeing Company

2008

Allen Flavell

Interpolation Using Radial Basis Functions

Graduate School:

Ph.D. Program, Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology

2007

 

Liz Dong

Mathematical Development of the Compartmental Pharmacokinetic Models

 

Graduate/Medical School:
MD./Ph.D. Program,
Vanderbilt University
(Graduated 2015)

Liz is currently a Pediatrician at Seattle Children's Hospital


2006

Josh Clark

Complexity Theory

Josh is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com Everett, WA

2005 Sara (Johnson) Mach

Women in Mathematics

M.A. Education (2008), U.C. Davis

2004 Paul Mach
www.paulmach.com

NURBS

Ph.D. (2012), Applied Mathematics, U.C. Davis

Software Engineer,
Strava, Inc.