Postdoctoral positions in the Math & Stats department are
advertised here.
Candidates interested in working with me should complete their
applications using MathJobs and then send me a message letting
me know they have applied.
Information for prospective graduate students
New research students are welcome to apply following the
procedures outlined here.
Additional information for financial mathematics students can
be found here.
All supplementary material (CV, transcripts, statement of
research interest, etc) should be part of the online application
process. Please do not e-mail them separately.
To ensure fairness in the admissions process, all applications
are reviewed at the same time immediately after the deadline
(usually Feb 1st of each year). Please do not ask us to review
your application separately.
If you have any further inquiries please contact the Graduate
Associate Chair at graduate@math.mcmaster.ca. Inquiries to my
personal e-mail address will be redirected to this page.
Postdoctoral fellows
Weijie Pang, September 2019 - present.
Patrick (Xihao) Li, September 2014 - September 2017.
Johannes Buchner, January 2014 - December 2015.
Adrien Nguyen Huu, September 2012 - August 2013.
Huibin Cheng (with T. Hurd and T. Pirvu), July 2011 to June
2013.
Klass Schultze (with T. Hurd and T. Pirvu), July 2009 to
June 2011.
Cesar Gómes Velez (with T. Hurd), January 2008 to July 2009.
Alexey Kuznetsov (with T. Hurd), July 2004 to June 2006.
PhD Students
Aghigh Farhadi, September 2020 - present
Yicheng Chen, September 2018 - present
Adam Profetto, September 2016 - present
Bernardo Costa Lima, September 2008 - August 2013.
Career history:
Senior Research Engineer, Accounting, Law, Finance
and Economics Department, EDHEC Business School, Singapore
(August 2012 - present).
Elena Alexandru-Gajura, September 2005 - October 2010
Tsunehiro Tsujimoto, exchange, University of St Andrews,
January 2009 - September 2010
Sebastiano Silla, exchange, Universita di Pisa, September 2005
– December 2008
Master Students
Luka Milic (co-supervised with Ben Bolker), September 2019 -
present
Daniel Presta (co-supervised with Ben Bolker), September 2019
- present
Emma Holmes (co-supervised with Ben Bolker), September 2019 -
August 2020
Aghigh Farhadi, September 2018 - August 2020
Aidan Ross (co-supervised with Christopher Anand), September
2017 - August 2020
Yicheng Chen, September 2017 - September 2018
Blair Walker, September 2017 - September 2018
Aditya Maheshwari, September 2014 - August 2015
Omar Alejandro Hernández Romo, September 2013 - August 2015
Xiaohui Li, March 2007 - March 2010
Omneia Ismail, September 2005 – August 2006
Lingling Wang, September 2004 – July 2006
Chuang Yi, September 2003 – August 2005
Undergraduate Students
Carlos Sek, McMaster University, January - April 2021
Matthew Shimoda, McMaster University, September 2020 - April
2021
Emma Holmes (co-supervised with Ben Bolker), McMaster
University, September 2018 - August 2019
Daniel Presta (co-supervised with Ben Bolker), McMaster
University, September 2018 - August 2019
Calvin Luo, McMaster University, January - April 2018
Conor Gillespie-Friesen, McMaster University, January - August
2015
Yanhe Huang, Mitacs Globalink, Beihang University, July -
September 2014
Michael Gill, McMaster University, May - August 2014, January
- April 2015
Flora Tixier (with T. Hurd), exchange, École Polytechnique,
April - June 2014
Simon Leguil (with T. Hurd), exchange, École Polytechnique,
April - June 2014
Hua Zheng, Mitacs Globalink, Shandong University, July -
September 2013
Hao Yin, Mitacs Globalink, Fudan University, June - August
2013
Fields-Mitacs Summer Program, July - August 2013.
Group members:
Reza Asad, University of Toronto
William Cook, Cambridge University
Xinyu Li, University of Minnesota
Nathan Tankus, University of Ottawa
Yihui Tian, University of Toronto
Kimsy Tor, Manhattam College
Hadrien De March (with T. Hurd), exchange, École
Polytechnique, April - July 2013
Matthieu Vermersch (with T. Hurd), exchange, École
Polytechnique, April - July 2013
Aditya Maheshwari, Mitacs Globalink, IIT Kanpur, May - August
2012
Fields-Mitacs Summer Program, July - August 2012.
Group members:
Francesc Rullan, University of Catalunya
Saúl Toscano Palmerin, University of Guanajuato
Zixuan Wang, Wuhan University
Camelia Yazdani, University of Ontario Institute
of Technology
Lionel Cassier (with T. Hurd), exchange, École Polytechnique,
May - August 2012
Fields-Mitacs Summer Program, July -- August 2011.
Group members:
Lucas Bentivenha, Universidade Estadual Paulista
Richard Cerezo, University of Toronto
Eric Hyungvin Ihm, University of Toronto
Euijun Kim, University of Toronto
Nikita Reymer, University of Toronto
Rafael Rocha, Universidade Estadual Paulista
Garance Staraci, exchange, Stanford University, May -- August
2011
Vincent Leclère, visiting undergradaute research (Ecole
Polytechnique, Paris) May 2009 - August 2009
Michael Lukas , USRA McMaster, May 2007 – August 2007