Permanent Faculty in Algebraic Geometry

Aaron Bertram Professor

Tommaso de Fernex Professor

Christopher Hacon Distinguished Professor

Sean Howe Assistant Professor

Yuan-Pin Lee Adjunct Professor

Karl Schwede Professor

Postdocs in Algebraic Geometry

Daniel Bragg Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Brian Nugent Postdoctoral Research Associate

Suchitra Pande Postdoctoral Research Associate

Graduate students in algebraic geometry

Rahul Ajit (student of Christopher Hacon and Karl Schwede)

Daniel Apsley (student of Harold Blum)

Minhua Cheng (student of Sean Howe and Jon Chaika)

Gari Chua (student of Karl Schwede)

Shea Engle (student of Aaron Bertram and Sean Howe)

Anne Fayolle (student of Karl Schwede)

Jonathon Fleck (student of Aaron Bertram)

Yu-Ting Huang (student of Christopher Hacon)

Jenna Judd (student of Srikanth Iyengar)

William Legg (student of Tommaso de Fernex)

Zach Mere (student of Tommaso de Fernex)

Liebo Pan (student of Aaron Bertram)

Sandra Rodríguez-Villalobos (student of Karl Schwede)

Joseph Sullivan (student of Aaron Bertram)

Yotam Svoray (student of Karl Schwede)

Suo-Jun Tan (student of Sean Howe)

Yi-Heng Tsai (student of Christopher Hacon)

Shih Hsin Wang (student of Tommaso de Fernex)

Recent graduates in algebraic geometry

• Matteo Altavilla Student of Aaron Bertram (graduated 2020).
• Matthew Bertucci Student of Sean Howe (graduated 2025), now a visiting assistant professor at Willamette University
• Andrew Bydlon Student of Karl Schwede (graduated 2017), now working on machine learning at Amazon.
• Hanlin Cai. Student of Sean Howe and Karl Schwede (graduated 2024), now a postdoc at Columbia.
• Javier Alonso Carvajal-Rojas Student of Karl Schwede (graduated 2018), now Assistant Professor at CIMAT, Mexico.
• Huachen Chen Student of Aaron Bertram (graduated 2019), now doing data science at Capital Group.
• Yen-An Chen Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2022), now a postdoc at NCTS, Taiwan.
• You-Cheng Chou (student of Y.P. Lee), now a postdoc in Academia Sinica in Taipei.
• Omprokash Das. Student of Christohper Hacon (graduated 2015), now at Tata (TIFR).
• Andrew Egbert. Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2016).
• Honglu Fan Student of Y.P. Lee (graduated 2017), now a postdoc at ETH.
• Erjuan Fu Student of Y.P. Lee (graduated 2019), now a postdoc at Tsinghua University (Beijing).
• Stefano Fillipazi Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2019), now tenure track at Duke.
• Thomas Goller Student of Aaron Bertram (graduated 2017), now an Assistant Professor of Instruction at Temple University.
• Junpeng Jiao Student of Christopher Hacon, now a postdoc at Tsinghua University (Beijing).
• Drew Johnson. Student of Aaron Bertram (graduated 2016), he's now a postdoc at the University of Oregon.
• Chung Ching Lau. Student of Tommaso de Fernex (graduated 2017), now an Equity Derivatives Quant at Scotiabank.
• Seungsu Lee. Student of Karl Schwede (graduated 2023), he's now a postdoc at Michigan.
• Jihao Liu Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2022). Now a tenure track at Peking University.
• Cristian Martinez. Student of Aaron Bertram (graduated 2015), now an Assistant Professor at Universidad de los Andes.
• Peter McDonald Student of Srikanth Iyengar and Karl Schwede, now an instructor at UIC
• Joaquin Moraga Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2019). Now an assistant professor at UCLA.
• Dapeng Mu Student of Aaron Bertram (graduated 2020).
• Marcus Robinson Student of Karl Schwede (graduated 2020), now a visiting faculty member at Reed.
• Franco Rota Student of Aaron Bertram (graduated 2019). Now a postdoc at Rutgers.
• Daniel Smolkin Student of Karl Schwede (graduated 2019). Now a postdoc at the University of Michigan.
• Yuan Wang Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2017), now a postdoc at Northwestern.
• Alan Mark Watson. Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2016).
• Chuanhao Wei Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2018), now a facult at Westlake University.
• Lingyao Xie Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2024), now a postdoc at UCSD.
• Qingyuan Xue Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2025), now at Fudan University.
• Keyvan Yaghmayi. Student of Tommaso de Fernex (graduated 2017), currently an Associate Instructor at the University of Utah.
• Jose Yanez. Student of Christopher Hacon (graduated 2023), now a postdoc at UCLA.
• Ziwen Zhu Student of Tommaso de Fernex (graduated 2020). Now an assistant professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Tongji University.