Wei Bai, Galyna Livshyts, A.Z. and Matt Alexander in Spring 2014. Photo by Robert Christy.
Graduate Students

Malak Lafi
Current Ph.D. student working on questions related to the large deviation principle and the Busemann‑Petty problem on sections of convex bodies for general measures.

Auttawich Manui
Ph.D., received in 2026, co-advised with Matthieu Fradelizi. Autt is working on many questions related to Convex Geometry and Analysis, including problems on Plünnecke–Ruzsa type inequalities for convex bodies and the local Loomis–Whitney inequality as well as geometry of bodies associated with a given convex body. From 2026 Autt is a postdoctoral fellow at Syracuse University.

Naif Alanazi
M.Sc., received in 2024. His research focused on the volume product in Lipschitz‑free spaces.

Ph.D., received in 2023, co-advised with Matthieu Fradelizi. His research focused on inequalities for different measures in convex geometry as well as on many other cool topics in Analysis and Convex Geometry. He is currently an NSF Post‑Doctoral Researcher in Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Ph.D., received in 2020. During his time at Kent, Michael produced significant work on inequalities in convex bodies for general measures, including Rogers–Shephard inequalities. From 2026 Mike is and Assistant Professor at Ohio State University.

Ph.D., successfully defended in Fall 2017, co-advised with Matthieu Fradelizi. He worked on discrete geometry, tomography, and convex geometry. He is currently Associate Dean and Acting Director at Western Governors University.

Ph.D., defended in Spring 2015. During her time at Kent, Galyna conducted remarkable research on the geometry of log-concave measures, including the study of surface area with respect to such measures. She is now an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech.

Jeffrey Schlaerth
Jeff worked with me from 2005 to 2014. His primary research focused on Fourier‑analytic methods in geometric tomography.

Jaegil Kim
Jaegil Kim graduated with a Ph.D. in 2013. From 2013 to 2017, he worked as a PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He is now a faculty member at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in South Korea. His Ph.D. thesis contains many important observations on the local version of Mahler's conjecture, including a complete solution for Hanner polytopes. He has also produced several significant works on the geometry of intersection bodies.

Yuanyuan finished her master’s thesis in random matrix theory and graduated in Summer 2015. She is now working in industry doing data analysis.

M.Sc., graduated in 2019. He wrote a thesis in probability and analysis and is now working in Data Science at Allstate.

Norah Almuraysil
Norah finished her master’s thesis in Spring 2017 and is now a lecturer at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. During her time at Kent State she studied different measurements of non‑convexity in metric spaces and how those measurements depend on the underlying metric.

