Research Areas of Active Interest:

• Methods to learn the exchange-correlation potential in time-dependent density functional theory
• Methods to learn reduced-order models for quantum dynamics
• Optimal control of quantum systems
• Modeling noise in quantum circuits

Research Group (January, 2025)

Graduate Research Group Alumni

• Dr. Majerle Reeves (Ph.D. 2023, UC Merced)
  Dissertation: Machine Learning and Data Science for System Identification, Public Health, and Equity
  Current position: Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellow, CDC
• Dr. Li-Hsuan Huang (Ph.D. 2018, UC Merced)
  Dissertation: Markov Chain Models and Data Science Applications
  Current position: University Lecturer, California State University Maritime Academy
• Dr. Shagun Rawat (Ph.D. 2018, UC Merced)
  Dissertation: Learning Governing Equations for Stochastic Dynamical Systems
  Current position: Software Engineer, Google
• Dr. R. W. M. A. Madushani (Ph.D. 2017, UC Merced)
  Dissertation: Parameter Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations
  Current position: Statistician/Data Scientist, Harvard Business School
• Dr. Garnet Vaz (Ph.D. 2014, UC Merced)
  Dissertation: Graph Based Scalable Algorithms with Applications
  Current position: Principal Data Scientist Manager, Microsoft
• Dr. Nitesh Kumar (Ph.D. 2013, UC Merced)
  Dissertation: Modeling Dependence in Data: Options Pricing and Random Walks
  Current position: VP of Engineering, Affirm, Inc
• Bryan Sims (M.S. 2012, UC Merced)
  Thesis: InvestorRank and an inverse problem for PageRank
  Current position: Senior Data Engineer, Woven by Toyota
• Derek Sollberger (M.S. 2011, UC Merced)
  Capstone: Monte Carlo approaches to hidden Markov model state estimation
  Current position: Lecturer of Data Science, Princeton University
• Dr. Braxton Osting (M. Phil. 2006, Columbia)

Co-Advised Students

• Dr. Ramin Raziperchikolaei (Ph.D. EECS 2019, UC Merced)
  Dissertation: Block Coordinate Descent Proximal Method for ODE Estimation and Discovery
  Current position: Research Scientist, Rakuten

Undergraduate Research Group Alumni