Students, past and present

Postdoctoral advisees

• Aaron Dutle, (co-advisor Éva Czabarka) 2012-2014, became a research computer scientist NASA Langley Research Center

Ph.D. students supervised

• Benji Dial, current, co-advised with Eva Czabarka
• Henry Simmons, current, co-advised with Eva Czabarka
• Alec Helm, current, co-advised with Eva Czabarka
• Stephen Smith, 2022, co-advised with Eva Czabarka, "Results on Select Combinatorial Problems with an Extremal Nature"
• Trevor Olsen, 2020, co-advised with Eva Czabarka, "Distance Related Graph Invariants in Triangulations and Quadrangulations of the Sphere", also obtained Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of South Carolina, now Senior Data Scientist at Freddie Mac.
• Inne Singgih, 2020, co-advised with Eva Czabarka, "Diameter of 3-colorable Graphs and Some Remarks on the Midrange Crossing Constant", Assistant Professor Educator at University of Cincinnati, OH.
• Josiah Reiswig, 2019, co-advised with Eva Czabarka, "A few problems on the Steiner distance and crossing number of graphs" (tenure track Assistant Professor at Anderson University.
• Taylor Short, 2016, "Some extremal and structural problems in graph theory" (tenured Associate Professor at Grand Valley State University)
• Heather Smith Blake, 2015, "Partitions, trees and other combinatorial structures" (tenured Associate Professor at Davidson College after an IMPACT postdoc at Georgia Tech)
• Austin Mohr, 2013, "Applications of the Lopsided Lovász Local Lemma regarding hypergraphs" (tenured Associate Professor and Department Chair at Nebraska Wesleyan University)
• Yiting Yang, 2010, "Genome rearrangement, Randic index and routing number" (after a postdoc at Zheijang University, he is an faculty at Tongji University, Shanghai, China)
• Hua Wang, 2005, "Subtrees of trees, Wiener index, and related problems" (he is a tenured Professor at Georgia Southern University, formerly John G. Thompson Research Assistant Professor at the University of Florida)

Master's Students supervised

• Greg Ferrin, 2014, "Independence polynomials"
• Kirk McMullan, 2006 (left school without degree)
• James Devin Henson, 2006, "Optimization problems from genome sequence rearrangements"
• Henry Chen, 2001 (left school without degree)
• Jason Burns, 2000, "Graph subdivision problems" (Ph.D. in Mathematics MIT, 2007)
• Szilárd Bokros, 1999, "Implementing the Short Quartet Methods" (currently he went on to work at a private company)
• Li Chong, 1998, "Minimum spanning trees and more: algorithms and analysis"
• Csaba Szász, Eötvös Loránd University, 1996, "Tournaments"
• Gábor Hetyei, Eötvös Loránd University, 1988, "Catalan numbers" (he is a professor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
• József Solymosi, Eötvös Loránd University, 1988, "Combinatorial Problems in Finite Ramsey Theory" (he is a professor at the University of British Columbia )
• Bernd Radtke, JATE, now University of Szeged, 1985, "Flow and circulation problems: effective algorithms and combinatorial consequences"
• Lenke Körmöczi, JATE, now University of Szeged, 1984, "Expander graphs in the theory of algorithms"
• Zoltán Blázsik, JATE, now University of Szeged, 1984, "Interconnection of probability theory and combinatorics", (he is a faculty at the University of Szeged)

Substantial joint research with Ph. D. students of others (resulting in publications though formally I did not supervise them)

• Zhiyu Wang, Ph.D. in USC Math. 2020, (he is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University. )
• Yong Zhang, Ph.D. in USC CSE, 2005, (he is an Associate Professor at the Eastern Mennonite University)
• Éva Czabarka, Ph.D. in USC Math. 1998, (she is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of South Carolina, earlier at the Department of Mathematics of the College of William & Mary),
• Ali A. Kooshesh, Ph.D. in Comp. Sci., 1990, University of New Mexico, (he is a faculty at Sonoma State University)
• Joseph McCanna, Ph.D. in Math, 1990, University of New Mexico, (was a faculty at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, currently musician)
• Thomas Porter, Ph.D. in Math, 1990, University of New Mexico, (deceased, he was Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)