Brin Postdoctoral Program

This program is funded by the generous gift of Professor Michael Brin in 2005. Professor Brin is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland. The Brin Postdoctoral program supports mathematicians who have recently completed or will soon complete a doctorate in mathematics or a closely related field, and whose work shows remarkable promise in mathematical research. The appointments are for one to three years, with a minimal teaching requirement of up to one course per semester.

Current Brin Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Panagiotis Dimakis works on the geometry of moduli spaces, Bogomolny equations, Higgs bundles, and related topics. He was a student at Stanford University with Rafe Mazzeo. His mentor is Richard Wentworth.
  • Zengrui Han works in algebraic geometry. He obtained his PhD from Rutgers University and is mentored by Amin Gholampour.
  • Hannah Hoganson works in geometry, low-dimensional topology, and geometric group theory. She was a doctoral student of Ken Bromberg (University of Utah). Her mentor is Christian Rosendal (formerly Lei Chen).
  • Aditya Kumar works in geometric analysis. He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University and is mentored by Jonathan Rosenberg.

Former Brin Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Francisco Arana Herrera works on dynamics on surfaces and Teichmüller theory. He was a student of Alex Wright (University of Michigan) and Steve Kerckhoff (Stanford University). His mentor was Professor Giovanni Forni. He is a winner of the Brin Prize in dynamical systems. Placement: Assistant Professor, Rice University.
  • Huanchen Bao studies representation theory of Lie algebras and superalgebras, as well as quantum groups. He obtained his PhD from the University of Virginia. His mentor was Professor Xuhua He (2015–2019). Placement: Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore. He was a co-winner of the 2020 Chevalley Prize for Lie Theory.
  • Ke Chen works on numerical analysis and scientific machine learning for partial differential equations. His mentor was Professor Haizhao Yang. Placement: University of Delaware.
  • Xuemiao Chen works on Yang–Mills connections, sheaves on complex manifolds, and the Harder–Narasimhan–Seshadri filtration. He was a student of Song Sun (Stony Brook University). His mentor was Richard Wentworth. Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo.
  • Heyrim Cho studies numerical and theoretical methods for stochastic simulations. Her mentor was Professor Doron Levy (2015–2019). Placement: Assistant Professor, UC Riverside.
  • Michele Coti Zelati works in partial differential equations and dynamical systems. He obtained his PhD from Indiana University Bloomington. His mentor was Professor Konstantina Trivisa  (2014–2016). Placement: Imperial College London.
  • Peter DilleryPeter Dillery works in representation theory and number theory, particularly aspects of the local and global Langlands program. He is a student of Tasho Kaletha (University of Michigan). His mentor was Professor Tom Haines. Placement: University of Bonn.
  • Changguang Dong (PhD 2018, Penn State) studies dynamics, including the density of iterates of infinite sets. His mentors were Professor Giovanni Forni and Professor Adam Kanigowski. Placement: Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University.
  • Renjie Feng works in random differential geometry and Kähler geometry, and stochastic processes. He obtained his PhD from Northwestern University. His mentor was Professor Richard Wentworth (2013–2015). Placement: Assistant Professor, Peking University.
  • Guan Huang works in dynamics. He obtained his PhD from École Polytechnique (France). His mentor was Professor Vadim Kaloshin (2014–2017). Placement: Tsinghua University.
  • Yuri Lima (PhD 2011, IMPA, Brazil) works in dynamics. His mentor was Professor Vadim Kaloshin (2013–2015). Placement: Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil).
  • Michelle Lee (PhD 2012, University of Michigan) worked with mentor Professor Bill Goldman (2013–2014). Placement: Data Scientist, Capital One.
  • Swarnava Mukhopadhyay works in algebraic geometry and representation theory. He obtained his PhD from UNC Chapel Hill. His mentor was Professor Patrick Brosnan (2013–2015). Placement: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai).
  • Peter Nandori (PhD 2013, Budapest University of Technology and Economics) studies dynamical systems and probability theory. His mentor was Dima Dolgopyat (2015–2018). Placement: Assistant Professor, Yeshiva University.
  • Pablo Roldan Gonzalez (PhD 2007, University of Texas at Austin) works in dynamics. His mentor was Professor Vadim Kaloshin (2014–2015). Placement: Assistant Professor, Yeshiva University.
  • Agnieszka Zelerowicz works in dynamical systems and thermodynamic formalism. She was a student of Yakov Pesin (Penn State). Her undergraduate degree is from Białystok, Poland. Her mentor was Dima Dolgopyat. Placement: Assistant Professor, UC Riverside.
  • Fei Wang(PhD 2017, University of Southern California) works in PDEs. His mentor (2017–2020) was Professor Jacob Bedrossian. Placement: Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • Matthew Welsch works in number theory using techniques from homogeneous dynamics and automorphic forms. He was a student of Henryk Iwaniec (Rutgers University). His mentor is Professor Bassam Fayad. Placement: Michigan State University.
  • Yijing Wu works in PDE theory; she is a student of Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas). Her undergraduate degree is from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research concerns regularity theory for nonlocal elliptic operators and free boundary problems in the calculus of variations. Her mentor was Professor Antoine Mellet. Placement: Senior Data Scientist, Fidelity.
  • Wujun Zhang (PhD 2012, University of Minnesota) works in numerical analysis of PDEs. His mentor was Professor Ricardo Nochetto (2012–2015). Placement: Assistant Professor, Rutgers University.