Graduate students group

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

Graduate Students

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Fatimah Hussain A Alsaab

M.Sc., graduated in 2025. She wrote a thesis in geometric number theory.

Malak Lafi

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

Auttawich Manui

Current Ph.D. student co-advised with Matthieu Fradelizi, 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.

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Naif Alanazi

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

Dylan Langharst

Dylan Langharst

Ph.D., received in 2023, co-advised with Matthieu Fradelizi. His research focused on inequalities for different measures in convex geometry. He is currently an NSF Post‑Doctoral Researcher in Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Michael Roysdon

Michael Roysdon

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. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati.

Matthew Alexander

Matthew Alexander

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.

Galyna Livshyts

Galyna Livshyts

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

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

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.

Wei Bai

Wei Bai

Wei finished her master’s thesis in percolation theory and graduated in Spring 2014.

Yuanyuan Peng

Yuanyuan Peng

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

Andriy Savka

Andriy Savka

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

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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.

Trista Mullin

Trista Mullin

Trista finished her Master’s thesis in Spring 2018. Her thesis was dedicated to the Brunn-Minkowski Inequality, including different proofs and applications. She now works in data analysis at Key Bank.