Where did they go?
Some outstanding Maryland math majors have gone on to famous careers.
In recent years, some of the best majors have gone on to some of
the best graduate programs in the country (e.g., Princeton, Stanford,
Harvard, Yale, MIT, Berkeley).
In 2007, we began to assemble an incomplete list of some of our
honors or exceptional math majors, with year of graduation.
In some cases we can list where they went after graduating.
Our departmental records for honors don't go back before 1980
and are a little sketchy early on.
A school name refers to graduate school (usually Math --
nonMath is indicated -- some of these math majors were double
majors).
- 1936
George Dantzig
(Michigan)
("father of linear programming")
- 1966
Charles Fefferman
(Princeton)
(later won the Fields Medal--the
"Nobel Prize of Mathematics")
- 1980 Christopher Asano*
- 1981 Steven Bonners
- 1981 Valerie Matthews
- 1981 L. Stephenson*
(Maryland)
- 1982 Ravi Boppana*
- 1982 Mary Flather-Phillips (Naval Research Labs)
- 1983 Selman Herschfield (Physics,
Cornell)*
- 1983
Alex Stanoyevitch*
(Michigan)
- 1983 Geoffrey Birky*
- 1983 Eugene Lerman*
(MIT)
- ???? Anderson
- 1988 Harold Knight*
(Yale)
- 1988 Boris Goldfarb* (Cornell)
- 1990 Richard Penn* (Michigan)
- 1990 Chris Monsour* (Chicago)
- 1991 Alex Gurevich*
- 1992 Emiliano Gomez* (Berkeley)
- 1993
Sergey Brin*
(Stanford, Computer Science)
(later cofounded
Google)
- 1993 Glenn Easley* (Maryland)
- 1994 Matt Baker* (Berkeley)
- 1994 Richard Durand*
- 1995 Anna Borovikov*
- 1995 Michael Gurevich* (Maryland)
- 1995 Geoffrey Hruska* (Cornell)
- 1995 Joseph Miller* (Cornell)
- 1996 Peter Calabrese*
- 1997 Kenneth Gosier* (NYU)
- 1997 Sudheer Shukla* (Chicago)
- 1998 Christopher Chambers* (Rochester)
- 1999 John Armstrong* (Yale)
- 1999 David Bindel* (Berkeley)
- 1999 David Clark* (MIT)
- 2000 Jeffrey Brown* (Berkeley)
- 2000 Sean Lawton* (Maryland)
- 2000 Ming Wei Ong* (Maryland)
- 2000 David Spivak* (Berkeley)
- 2001 Matt Bainbridge* (Harvard)
- 2001 James Bremer (Yale)
- 2001 Chad Groft*
(Stanford)
- 2001 William Patrick Hooper* (Stony Brook)
- 2001 Robert Rohde* (Berkeley)
- 2002 Jason Ernst*
- 2002 Paul Yu* (Maryland)
- 2003 Lawrence D'Anna* (Maryland)
- 2003 Jared English* (Wisconsin)
- 2003 Michael Thompson* (Maryland)
- 2004 Jonathan Dahl* (Johns Hopkins)
- 2004 Stuart Fletcher*
(rock and roll band)
- 2004 Steven Helfand* (Maryland)
(but after a semester, he left
to play drums for the Glenn Miller Band)
- 2004 Sarah Kitchen* (Utah)
- 2004 Alexandre Rostovtsev* (Maryland)
- 2004 Andrew Snowden* (Princeton)
(with Ph.D.2009 under
Andrew Wiles,
who proved Fermat's Last Theorem)
- 2004 Benjamin Trahan* (Maryland)
- 2004 Marshall Williams* (Michigan)
- 2004 Nikolai Yakovenko* (Columbia)
(and then on to Google in NY)
- 2005 Greg Crosswhite (Univ. of Washington, Physics)
- 2005 Reginald Covington (Cornell, Economics)
- 2005 Patrick Curran*
(teaching high school)
- 2005 Neha Gupta* (Google)
- 2005 Ninad Jog*
- 2005 Juan Lleras (Berkeley, Economics)
- 2005 Bianca Viray* (Berkeley)
- 2005 James White (Maryland, Applied Math)
- 2006 Timothy Dulaney* (Physics,
Cal Tech)
- 2006 Michael Hall* (Mathematics, UCLA)
- 2006 Bryant Lee (Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon)
- 2006 Lea Ann Mawler*
- 2006 Alisa Stephens (Biostatistics, Harvard)
- 2007 Mohamed Abutaleb (Physics,
MIT)
- 2007 Sinan Ariturk (Mathematics,
Johns Hopkins)
- 2007 Jeffrey Donatelli* (Mathematics, Berkeley)
- 2007 Anton Lukyanenko* (Mathematics, Maryland)
- 2007 Andrew Parrish* (Mathematics, U.C.San Diego)
- 2007 Gaurav Thakur* (Applied
Mathematics, Princeton)
- 2008 John Dickerson (Computer
Science, Carnegie Mellon)
- 2008 Morgan Dixon (Computer
Science, U of Washington)
- 2008 Christina Frederick*
(Mathematics, Texas at Austin)
- 2008 Philip Isett* (NSF
Fellow, Mathematics, Princeton)
- 2008 Nicholas Henderson* (Mathematics,
Maryland)
- 2008 Katrina LaCurts (NSF
Fellow, Computer Science, MIT)
- 2008 Dan Marcin
(Economics, Michigan)
- 2008 Jesse Sugar-Moore*
(Mathematics, Texas
at Austin)
- 2009 Jeffrey Birenbaum (Physics, Berkeley)
- 2009 Sean Burke (Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin)
- 2009 Hannah Gerlach (Northrop
Grumman)
- 2009 Stevie Green (Physics, UCSD)
- 2009 Greg Ihrie (Mathematics, Cambridge)
- 2009 Nusrat Jerin (Programmer,
Private Sector)
- 2009 Luke Johnson (Physics, Maryland)
- 2009 Siwei Kwok (Economics, UCLA)
- 2009 Yutao Liu (Chinese Education,
Maryland)
- 2009 Chao Lu* (System
Specialist, Private Sector)
- 2009 Abe Martin (Economics,
Federal Reserve Bank of NY)
- 2009 Alex Mont
(Computer Science, U. Illinois Champaign-Urbana)
- 2009 Alexander Per (Economics, George
Washington)
- 2009 Steve Pesto (Private
Sector, in Spain)
- 2009 Amir Soofi
(Computer Programmer, General Dynamics, Baghdad)
- 2009 William Stem
(Physics, Maryland)
- 2009 Andrew Ward*
- 2009 Matt Weber (Technical and
Functional Consultant, Private Sector)
- 2009 Joel Witten*
(Statistics, Columbia)
- 2009 Di Zou (Networking,
Lockheed Martin)
- 2010 Jonathan Anderson* (Microsoft)
- 2010
Bryan Ball*
- 2010 Stephen Bitzel (Software Developer, Tanager, Inc.)
- 2010 Benjamin Chapin
(Music, Maryland)
- 2010 Jon Cohen*
(Mathematics, Maryland)
- 2010 Cory Cummings
(Mathematics Education, Maryland)
- 2010 Jojo
Entsuah (Computational Finance, Carnegie Melon)
- 2010 Samantha Fish
(Statistics, US Census Bureau)
- 2010 Hannah Gerlach
(Software Development, Northrop Grumman)
- 2010
Kevin Hencke (Mathematics, Maryland, Math)
- 2010 Lisa Hoffmaister
(Math Teacher)
- 2010 Ammar Husain* (Physics,
Berkeley)
- 2010 Alan Jackoway (Software
Engineering, Private Sector)
- 2010 Jennifer Kargus (Software
Engineer)
- 2010 Mitchell Katz *
- 2010 Rachel Kirsch*
(Mathematical Association of America)
- 2010
Jacob Konikoff* (Biostatistics, UCLA)
- 2010
Emily LaRocca (Mathematics Education, Maryland)
- 2010
Greg Laun* (Mathematics, Maryland)
- 2010
Chenwen Li (Computer Science, Maryland)
- 2010
Mike Mazzarella (Mathematics Education, Maryland)
- 2010 Rachel Morris
(Cost Analyst,
Navy)
- 2010 Haylay North (Poe School
Administration)
- 2010
Joseph Paulson (NSF award, Applied Math, Maryland)
- 2010 Mickey Salins
(Mathematics, Maryland)
- 2010 Bradford Sanders
(Math for America)
- 2010
Boyen Shen (Civil Engineering, Maryland)
- 2010
John Silberholz* (Goldwater Scholar, NSF Fellow,
Operations Research, MIT)
- 2010 Hannah Sohn
(Mathematics Education, Maryland)
- 2010 Cynthia Tran
(Mathematics Education, Maryland)
- 2010 Kaitlyn Tuley*
(NSF
Fellow, Mathematics, UCLA)
- 2010
Mary Wilson
(Statistics, FDA)
- 2010 Emily Sze
(School of Medicine, Maryland)
- 2011 Michael Bartock (IT
specialist, NIST)
- 2011 Ran Bi (Management of
Science in Engineering, Stanford)
- 2011 Harveen Bindra (Math
Education, Maryland)
- 2011 Nick Bonomo (Actuary,
Private Sector)
- 2011
Kristen Campilonga (Budget Analyst, Maryland
Department of Budget and Management)
- 2011 Jonathan Cottrell (Statistics,
concurrently with Industrial
Organization Psychology, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign)
-
2011 Andrew Ferguson
(Software Development, Epic Systems Corporation)
- 2011
Antonio Fominaya (Mathematics Education, Maryland)
- 2011
Austin Gardner (Project Management, Maryland)
-
2011 Allen Gehret* (Mathematics,
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign)
-
2011 Katharine
Hamilton
(Economics, Maryland)
- 2011 Junjie Hao
(Chemistry, Harvard)
- 2011 Daniel Jaskot
(EM Analyst and Threat Systems Engineer, Systems Engineering Group, Inc.)
- 2011 Samuel Lang
(Programmer, Five Rings Capital)
- 2011 Robert
Maschal (Mathematics, Maryland)
- 2011 Richard Matthew
McCutchen* (Google)
- 2011
Kevin McGehee (Software Engineer, Amazon)
- 2011
Aaron Merchak (Analyst, Cornerstone Research)
- 2011 Mireille Ngo Bakal
(Applied Statistics, Cornell)
-
2011 Shawn Ratwani (Investment
Banking, UBS)
-
2011 Scott Rome
(Mathematics, Drexel)
-
2011 Lea Savard-McNicoll (Analyst, Glevum
Associates, Afghanistan)
-
2011 Matt Shriver (Mathematics
Education, Maryland - Hagerstown)
-
2011 Scott Smith* (Applied
Mathematics & Scientific Computing, Maryland)
-
2011 Stanislav Speransky
(Meteorology, Florida State)
-
2011 Yi An Sun (MIT, NSF Fellow)
-
2011 Tim Van Blarcom
(Statistician, D3 Systems)
-
2011 Joseph Woodworth
(Mathematics, UCLA, NSF Fellow)
- 2011 Louis Wu
(Officer Candidates School)
- 2011 Kelsey Young
(Business Analytics and Optimization, IBM)
- 2011
Ruiqian Zhang (Actuarial Science, Columbia University)
- 2012 Andrew Bernstein*
(Applied Math, NC State)
- 2012 Jonathan Booz
(Software Development Engineer, Amazon.com)
- 2012 Edward Carney (Systems
Engineer, The SI Organization)
- 2012 Jacob
Criner (Software Developer, Arcode)
- 2012
Holman Gao* (Software Engineer, Room 77)
- 2012
Alexander Golden (Applied Phyiscs, Ann Arbor,
Michigan)
- 2012 Yu Gu
(Applied and Interdisciplinary Math, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
- 2012
Trevor Hill (Software Engineer, Google)
- 2012 Jeff Jacobs (Computer
Science, with a dual concentration in Mathematics, Stanford)
- 2012
Oliver Lum (Applied Matheamtics, Maryland)
- 2012
Alyssa Maccarone (Statistical Analyst, Mathematica Policy
Research)
- 2012
Ana Matos (Actuarial Assistant, Metlife)
- 2012
Joseph Mickel (Interdisciplinary Statistics & Operations
Research, UNC Chapel Hill)
- 2012
Tshikuna Muanankese (Control Systems Engineer,
ExxonMobile)
- 2012
James Park (Operations Research Analyst, US Air Force)
-
2012 Arielle Snyder
(Education, Maryland)
- 2012
Andrew Szymczak (Computer
Science, NYU)
- 2012
Jacob Warren (Economics, University of Pennsylvania)
*graduated with honors or high honors in Mathematics
(Please send additions or corrections to ichan@math.umd.edu)
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