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
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 Areas of Research: PDEs, Wastewater modeling, Uncertainty Qunatification |
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Christina Catlett
ESAM Graduate Student Areas of Research: Experimental design, Model reduction and selection, Metabolic Networks |
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Yifan Zhang
ESAM Graduate Student Areas of Research: Spatial Organization of Metabolism, Asymptotics, Model selection for population dynamics |
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Solomon Valore-Caplan
ESAM Graduate Student, joint with Cristián Huepe and Danny Abrams Areas of Research: Data-driven model selection for 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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Alasdair Hastewell, PhD
NITMB Independent Postdoctoral Fellow Areas of Research: Data-driven modeling, Animal Locomotion, Identifiability and Sparse Model Selection |
Former Members:
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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 Next Step: Assistant Professor at Montana State University in the Department of Mathematical Sciences |
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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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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 |
Julie Nguyen, PhD (with Diego Klabajan)
Graduate Student, Spring 2020- Spring 2022
Areas of Research: Sparse model selection, Optimization, Regulatory Networks
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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Kathleen (Katie) Dreyer, PhD
CBE Graduate Student, joint with Josh Leonard, graduated Fall 2024 Areas of Research: Dynamical systems modeling for regulatory networks, Mamalian Genetic Circuit design, Genetic Algorithms |
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Monica Xu (NU)
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2025- present Areas of research: Dynamical systems modeling, Metabolism, Asymptotics, Experimental microbiology Joint with Danielle Tullman-Ercek Group |
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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. Next Step: Quantitative Strategist at Goldman Sachs |
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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 Next Step: ML @ Scale AI |
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Andrew Yang (Brown)
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2022- Spring 2023 Areas of research: Image processing, information theory, C. elegans Next Step: Medical Student at Brown University |
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Jocelyn Zonnnefeld (Dordt University)
Undergraduate Researcher NSF SynBREU program, Summer 2023 Areas of Research: Genetic algorithms, mamalian genetic circuit design Next Step: Tufts for PhD in Computer Science |
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Ava Penn (Caltech)
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2023 Areas of research: Nonlinear optimization, sparse model selection, dynamical systems |
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Finn Hagarty
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter 2024-present Areas of research: Sparse model selection, metabolic networks, stiff ODEs Next Step: AI/ML Engineer |
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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 Next Step: Rosetta RaMP Fellow |
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Andrew Engedal (U. Wisconsin, Madison)
Undergraduate Resarcher NSF QBREU, Summer 2023 - present Areas of research: Hibernation, dynamical systems, model selection Next Step: Princeton for PhD in Mathematical Biology |