Senior Projects Advisees
| Year | Students and Projects | Pictures | What they do after SPU |
| 2020 | Matthew Tsutsui
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Graduate School |
| 2019 | Robert Chung
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Software Engineer (2019) Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
| 2019 | Sion Park Face Recognition and PCA | ![]() |
Software Developer (2020) at Faithlife |
| 2018 | Amy Hu Building A | ![]() |
Graduate School Technology Specialist |
| 2018 | Delsey Sabu Data Clustering Algorithms: | ![]() |
Software Engineer (2019) |
| 2018 | Elise Bishoff Using Logistic Regression | ![]() |
Graduate School Data Scientist (2020) |
| 2017 |
Brittany Dygert Biclustering of Gene Expression Data | ![]() |
Graduate School |
| 2017 | Laura Wood Reconstruction of the Flight Path of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 |
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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 Line2. Mean Value Thoerem 3. Riemann Sum
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Graduate School |
| 2016 |
Jonathan Van Schenck
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Graduate School Ph.D. Program in Phyiscs Oregon State University |
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Ashley Sonan Image Compression and Singular Value Decomposition
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Engineer
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| 2015 |
Caylee Daniel Connections Between the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci Sequence (Co-advised with Dr. O'Leary)
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Caylee teaches mathematics at Renton High School, Renton, WA | |
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Kirsten Knutson Approximating Human Mortality
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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 |
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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 |
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| 2012 | Liz Berg Analysis of Spatial Competition Using Voronoi Diagrams |
Graduate School: Data & Analytics Consultant (2018)
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2008 | Allen Flavell Interpolation Using Radial Basis Functions |
Graduate School: Ph.D. Program, Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology |
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| 2007 |
Liz Dong Mathematical Development of the Compartmental Pharmacokinetic Models
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Graduate/Medical School: Liz is currently a Pediatrician at Seattle Children's Hospital
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| 2006 | Josh Clark Complexity Theory |
Josh is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com Everett, WA |
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| 2005 | Sara (Johnson) Mach
Women in Mathematics |
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M.A. Education (2008), U.C. Davis |
| 2004 | Paul Mach www.paulmach.com NURBS |
Ph.D. (2012), Applied Mathematics, U.C. Davis Software Engineer, |