• Niall M. Mangan
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Mangan Group members

We accept new graduate students through Northwestern's Ph.D program in Applied Mathematics. Please visit the ESAM department web page for details about how to apply to either program.
Interested undergraduates and postdoctoral scholars can send a CV and statement of interest via email:niall(dot)mangan(at)northwestern(dot)edu

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Maria Warns
ESAM Graduate Student,  joint with Packman group
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Areas of Research: PDEs, Wastewater modeling, Uncertainty Qunatification

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Kathleen (Katie) Dreyer
CBE Graduate Student,  joint with Josh Leonard
Areas of Research: Dynamical systems modeling for regulatory networks, Mamalian Genetic Circuit design, Genetic Algorithms

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Christina Catlett
ESAM Graduate Student
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Areas of Research: Experimental design, Model reduction and selection, Metabolic Networks
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Katelyn Leisman, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
email, website
Areas of Research: Nonlinear PDEs, Dynamical Systems, Biochemical Networks,

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Cody FitzGerald, PhD
NSF-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, JSMF Postdoctoral Fellow
Areas of Research: Dormancy and decision making, Sparse model selection, Dynamical systems

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Manu Jayadharan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
​email, website
Areas of Research: Sparse model selection, numerical analysis, high performance computing, financial derivative modeling, and scientific machine learning

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Jessica Lin (Berkeley)
​Undergraduate Researcher NSF QBREU, Summer 2023 - present
Areas of Research: Sparse model selection for chaotic systems with hidden variables

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Andrew Engedal (U. Wisconsin, Madison)
Undergraduate Resarcher NSF QBREU, Summer 2023 - present
Areas of research: Hibernation, dynamical systems, model selection

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Finn Hagarty
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter 2024-present
Areas of research: Sparse model selection, metabolic networks, stiff ODEs

Former Members:
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Sasha Shirman, PhD
Departmental Postdoctoral  Fellow  in Quantitative Biological Modeling
Tech M446, email
Areas of Research: Parameter Estimation and Data Assimilation for Dynamical Systems, Bayesian Methods Developmental Biology, Biofuels
Next Steps: Senior Scientist in Modeling at Applied BioMath

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Helena Ribera Ponsa, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Tech M442, email, website
Areas of Research: Sparse Model Selection, PDE simulation, Asymptotics,
​Next Steps: Data Scientist at Dribia, an ML/algorithm development company in Barcelona, Spain


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Keren Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Jiping Wang's group
Areas of Research: Sparse Regression, Gaussian Graphic Models, Metabolic Networks, Statistical Methods for Data Assimilation in Quantitative Biology
Next Step: Faculty at University of Alabama, Birmingham

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Joy Nyaanga, PhD
IBiS Graduate Student,  joint with Andersen group, graduated Spring 2022
Areas of Research: Developmental Biology, Quantitative Biology, Dynamical Systems, Statistics
Next Step: Senior Bioinformatician at Ann & Rober H. Lurie Children's hospital of Chicago

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Julie Nguyen
Graduate Student, Spring 2020- Spring 2022
Areas of Research: Sparse model selection, Optimization, Regulatory Networks


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Jithin George, PhD
ESAM Graduate Student, graduated Fall 2024, website
Areas of Research: Scientific Computing, Numerical Methods, Chemical Catalysis
Next Step:  Postdoc at Argonne National Lab

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Andre Archer, PhD
ESAM Graduate Student, graduated Fall 2024
Areas of Research: Networks, Model Reduction, Optimization, Metabolism
Next Step: Computational Scientist at Amgen​

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Christina Goss (NU)
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2019 - Spring 2021
Areas of Research: C. elegans development, physical/material modeling, population dynamics
Nest step: Graduate program IMPRS for Physics of Biological and Complex Systems at Max Planck

Matthew Cummings (U. Dayton)
​Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2021
​Areas of Research: metabolic pathways, reaction-diffusion equations, numerical and analytic analysis
Next Step: 
 Applied Optimization working with Additive Manufacturing (3D printing softwares)

Matthew Sak (U. Kentucky)
​Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2021
​Areas of Research: metabolic pathways, reaction-diffusion equations, numerical and analytic analysis

Zachary Crispino (Cornell)
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2019
Areas of Research: Metabolic network analysis, thermodynamics, sparse regression.

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Samuel Jung (NU)
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter 2021 - Fall 2022
Fletcher Award for Rising Undergrad Research Star
​Areas of Research: Numerical methods
Next step: Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman

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Isabel Zhong (NU)
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2021- Winter 2023
Areas of Research: Image processing, information theory, C. elegans

Andrew Yang (Brown)
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2022- Spring 2023
Areas of research: Image processing, information theory, C. elegans
Jocelyn Zonnnefeld (Dordt University)
Undergraduate Researcher NSF SynBREU program, Summer 2023
Areas of Research: Genetic algorithms, mamalian genetic circuit design
Ava Penn (Caltech)
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2023
Areas of research: Nonlinear optimization, sparse model selection, dynamical systems
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  • Niall M. Mangan
  • Research
  • Publications
  • Teaching
  • Group Members