This program is funded by the department in honor of our late former colleague. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Serguei Novikov. The Novikov 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 light teaching requirement of two to three courses per academic year.

Current Novikov Postdoctoral Fellows:

• Junren Chen works in high-dimensional statistics, nonconvex optimization, and mathematical data science. He is mentored by Yun Yang.
• Meg Doucette works in smooth dynamics. She obtained her PhD from the University of Chicago and is mentored by Adam Kanigowski.
• Guillaume Dumas works in analysis on semisimple Lie groups and representation theory. He obtained his PhD from the University of Lyon and is mentored by Uri Bader.
• Hannah Hoganson works in geometric group theory. She obtained her PhD from the University of Utah and is mentored by Lei Chen.
• Zhongtian “Kevin” Hu works on nonlinear partial differential equations arising in fluid dynamics and biology. He obtained his PhD from Duke University and is mentored by Huy Nguyen.
• Jiwoong Jang works in partial differential equations. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is mentored by Antoine Mellet.
• Yaxiong Liu works in complex geometry. He obtained his PhD from Tsinghua University and is mentored by Tamás Darvas.
• Aris Papadopoulos works in logic. He obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds and is mentored by Chris Laskowski.
• Jaime Paradela Diaz works in celestial mechanics and dynamical systems. His PhD is from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
• C. Alex Safsten works in mathematical biology and machine learning. His PhD is from Penn State.
• Junyan Zhao works in algebraic geometry. He obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois Chicago and is mentored by Patrick Brosnan and Dori Bejleri.

 Former Novikov Postdoctoral Fellows:

• Jingren Chi works at the intersection of algebraic geometry, number theory, and representation theory, with interests in geometric representation theory and p-adic harmonic analysis. He was a doctoral student of Bảo Châu Ngô (University of Chicago). His mentor was Tom Haines. Placement: Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Xiumin Du works in harmonic analysis. She was a student of Xiaochun Li and received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Her thesis was on Schrödinger maximal estimates. Her mentor was Wojtek Czaja (2018–2020). Placement: Assistant Professor, Northwestern University.
• James Hanson works in continuous logic and applications of logic to topology and analysis, and also has a background in theoretical physics. He was a student of Uri Andrews (University of Wisconsin–Madison). His mentor was Chris Laskowski. Placement: Assistant Professor, Iowa State University.
• Xiaoqi Huang works in harmonic and geometric analysis and partial differential equations. He was a student of Chris Sogge (Johns Hopkins University). His mentor was Manos Grillakis. Placement: Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University.
• Hussain Ibdah works on theoretical analysis of nonlinear and nonlocal PDEs, particularly those arising in fluid mechanics and transport–diffusion systems. He was a student of Edriss Titi (Texas A&M University). His mentor was Eitan Tadmor. Placement: UC Riverside.
• Fushuai Jiang works in multivariate interpolation and extension theory, as well as harmonic analysis with applications to data science. He was a student of Garving K. Luli (UC Davis). His mentor was Radu Balan. Placement: Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong.
• Jakob Hultgren works in complex differential geometry, with interests in canonical metrics in Kähler geometry and their relation to optimal transport, statistical mechanics, and stability in algebraic geometry. He was a student of Robert Berman and David Witt Nyström (Chalmers University of Technology). His mentor was Yanir Rubinstein. Placement: Umeå University.
• Yordanka Kovacheva is an algebraic geometer and was a student of Madhav Nori (University of Chicago). Her research concerns algebraic cycles, Chow groups, and K-theory of algebraic varieties. Her mentor was Patrick Brosnan.
• Mickaël Latocca works in partial differential equations, particularly equations arising in fluid mechanics and Schrödinger dynamics. He was a doctoral student of Isabelle Gallagher and Nicolas Burq (École Normale Supérieure, Paris). His mentor was Matei Machedon. Placement: Université d’Évry (France).
• Eoin Mackall works in algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory. He was a student of Nikita Karpenko (University of Alberta). His mentor was Niranjan Ramachandran. Placement: UC San Diego.
• Shalin Parekh works in probability, especially interacting particle systems and their convergence to stochastic PDEs, random walks in random environments, and polymer models. He was a student of Ivan Corwin (Columbia University). His mentor was Yu Gu. Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Maine.
• Ruiwen Shu worked on uncertainty quantification for kinetic equations with random inputs. He was a student of Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin–Madison). His mentor was Eitan Tadmor (2018–2021). Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Georgia.
• Guangyu Xi works in stochastic analysis, PDEs, and fluid mechanics. He was a student of Zhongmin Qian and Gui-Qiang Chen (University of Oxford). His mentor was Sandra Cerrai (2018–2021). Placement: Quant Researcher, Akuna Capital.
• Rigoberto Zelada works in ergodic theory. He was a student of Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State University). His mentor was Adam Kanigowski. Placement: University of Warwick.
• Matthias Wellershoff works in data science, particularly phase retrieval from time–frequency and time–scale structured data. He was a student of Rima Alaifari (ETH Zürich). His mentor was Wojtek Czaja.
• Lutian Zhao works in enumerative algebraic geometry with applications to mathematical physics. He was a student of Sheldon Katz (University of Illinois). His mentor was Amin Gholampour. Placement: Kavli IPMU.
• Zehua Zhao works in dispersive PDE, especially nonlinear Schrödinger equations. He was a student of Benjamin Dodson (Johns Hopkins University). His mentor was Matei Machedon (2019–2021). Placement: Beijing Institute of Technology.
• Jenna Zomback works in ergodic theory, descriptive set theory, and dynamics. She was a student of Anush Tserunyan (University of Illinois). Placement: Assistant Professor, Amherst College.