Dissertation Year Program Awards
The Dissertation Year Program (DYP) Award is intended for MFA or PhD students who expect to complete their degree program the year in which the award is received.
2023 - 2024 DYP Award
Most Current Recipients
Jennifer Rangel Ambriz
Advisor(s): Dr. Mark Alber
Area of research: Mathematical Biology
Publications:
Kumar, N., Tsai, K., Mim, M.S., Rangel Ambriz, J., Chen, W., Zartman, J.J., Alber, M. Balancing competing effects of tissue growth and cytoskeletal regulation during Drosophila wing disc development
Awards:
Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship Award 2018-2020; Outstanding Teaching Award 2020; Vernon A. Kramer Memorial Service Award 2021
Official Service:
UCR's Mathematics Department Recruitment Ambassador 2020-Present; COMAP Modeling Competition Advisor 2020-2022; SMB 2021 Judging Sub-Committee 2021; GSPM Mentor 2020-2021; Teaching Fellow 2020
Tony Li
Advisor(s): Dr. Heyrim Cho
Research area: Computational Biology and Mathematical Oncology
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuno.2023.100022
Alysha Toomey
Advisor(s): Dr. Weitao Chen
Area of research: Mathematical Biology
Awards:
Inclusive Excellence Travel Award 2023; Outstanding Teaching Award 2022; Vernon A. Kramer Memorial Service Award 2021, 2022; Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship 2018
Official Service:
UCR AMS Chapter Secretary 2021-2022; Recruitment Ambassador 2019-2023; Teaching Fellow 2020; GSMP Peer Mentor 2020-2021; TRIO Scholars Graduate Mentor 2021-2022; Undergraduate Research Mentor 2021-2023, Teaching Fellow 2020
Previous Years
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2022-2023
James Alcala
Advisor(s): Dr. Yat Tin Chow
Research Area: Optimization, Machine Learning, Computational Social Science
Awards: Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship, 2018; AWM Chapter Outreach Award, UCR AWM Chapter; UCR GSA Certificate of Sustainability, Dissertation Year Fellowship 2022-23
Official Service: Outreach Coordinator, UCR AWM Chapter, 2021-2022; Mentor, Chicano Link Peer Mentor Program, 2022-2023; President and Vice President, UCR Math Grad Student Association, 2019 - 2021
Austin Hansen
Co-Advisor(s): Dr. Heyrim Cho, Dr. Mark Alber
Research Area: Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Oncology
Publications: “Mathematical modeling of therapeutic neural stem cell migration in mouse brain with and without brain tumors”, Gomez et al. 2022Awards: Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship, 2018, Junior Jones Fellowship 2020-21, Vernon Kramer Service Award 2022
Official Service: COMAP Team Advisor, California Calculus Learning Lab Mentor
Jacob Garcia
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Tyler Pierce
Advisor(s): Dr. Vyjayanthi Chari
Research Area: Representation theory of Lie algebras
Awards: Distinguished Teaching Award 2020, Jones Fellowship 2020-21, Dissertation Year Fellowship 2022-23
Teaching Fellow: 2022, 2022
Isaac Tate
Advisor(s): Dr. Weitao Chen
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Christian Williams
Advisor(s): Dr. John Baez, Emeritus
Research Area: Category Theory, Logic, and Type Theory
Publications: Enriched Lawvere Theories for Operational Semantics,Williams and Baez, ACT 2019
Abstract Congruence Criteria for Weak Bisimilarity, Tsampas, et al, MFCS 2021
Native Type Theory, Williams and Stay ACT 2021
Awards: Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow, 2017
Service:
UCR GSA Sustainability Liaison, 2019
UCR Math GSA President, 2019/2021
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2021-2022
Jonathan Alcaraz
Jonathan Dugan
Michael McNulty
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2020-2021
Therese-Marie Landry
Michael Pierce
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2019-2020
Ethan Kowalenko