Sudhir Murthy

MATH

Mentored by Dr. Estela Gavasto and Dr. Michael Nelson, Sudhir has published in UCR’s Undergraduate Research Journal and presented at UTD’s Fourth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. He also attended a funded workshop at the Lorentz Center, in Leiden, on machine-verified mathematics. He then presented his experience to the 2024 Joint Mathematics Meetings, discussing the prospective future of computerized mathematics and AI. Currently, working under Dr. Patricio Gallardo, he leads a team of undergraduates to formalize Euclidean Geometry using computerized proof assistants. Having accepted UCR’s Ph.D. program in mathematics, Sudhir is eager to continue his interest in algebra, logic, and computer science.

Riley Hunke

MTSS

Riley has been a part of the CalTeach - Science Math Initiative program as a Peer Leader and Mentor where he served as the Office Team Lead. Along with this leadership role, he participated in two year-long field assignments at local secondary schools to prepare for his future career as a math teacher. Riley was also the Vice President of Tomorrow's Teachers of Science and Math for the 2023-2024 term. As they prepare to graduate, Riley has been accepted into UCR's dual Masters and Credential program starting this summer and plans to teach in the Inland Empire upon graduation.

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Camille Korbut

Camille Korbut has a passion for education concerning underrepresented students in the STEM field with an emphasis on bolstering community college students. Her professional goals are to become a lead researcher in industry or government while collaborating on initiatives that promote mathematics\ education outreach in K-12 and undergraduate education. She has been actively participating in the Association for Women in Mathematics Chapter at UCR and has run the chapter as the president for two years. She organized various activities including diversity workshops and visiting K12 schools to promote STEM. During her presidency, UCR chapter has been selected as the winner of 2022 AWM student chapter award for community outreach. Camille also actively participated in STEM Connections (STEM Pathways Program at UCR), and Research in Science and Engineering (RISE) program at UCR. She has been selected to participate in California Alliance for Minority Participation at UCR (2021/2022), Undergraduate Research Opportunities Consortium (UROC) at the University of Arizona (2021), and the Research Training Group in Data Discovery REU at the University of Arizona (2022) which allows underrepresented minority students to engage in active research with faculty mentors. Her CAMP faculty mentor is Dr. Weitao Chen. At the University of Arizona, she worked under the supervision of Dr. David Glickenstein, Dr. Kevin Lin, Dr. Avinash Karamchandani, and Alexa Aucoin. She also conducted research under the guidance of Dr. Mykhailo (Misha) Potomkin in a research undergraduate course. She will start her Ph.D. study in Fall 2023.

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Rany Tith

Research has played a major role in Rany’s life as a student. Before transferring to UCR, Rany worked on LiFePO4 battery synthesis at CE-CERT and published in two peer-reviewed conference journals. In addition to that, his interdisciplinary take on research is what distinguishes his academic history from others. Afterwards he would go on to present research on natural language processing at SoCal NLP at USC and present original research at AMS Fall 2019 on machine learning and category theory. While at UCR, Rany spent time with Dr. John Baez and his students to explore the connections between systems and how category theory can be applied. Now Rany works with Dr. Qixuan Wang on optimizing algorithmic runtime of biological models to better understand the life cycle of hair follicle cells. He is also on the board of the competitive coding club where he represented UCR at SoCal ICPC regionals.

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