• Michael Dowling
  (PhD, May 2016, Advisor: Dr. Gao)
  Expander Graphs and Coding Theory.
  (Initial position: )[divider]
• Sarah Anderson
  (PhD, May 2015, Advisor: Dr. Matthews).
  Applications of Algebraic Geometric Codes to Polar Coding.
  (Initial position: Assistant Professor, University of St Thomas)[divider]

• Yue Mao
  (PhD, December 2014, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  Numerical decoding, Johnson-Lindenstrauss transforms, and linear codes
  [divider]
• Nate Black
  (PhD, August 2014, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  Homomorphic Encryption and the Approximate GCD Problem
  (Initial position: Technical Staff, NetApp)[divider]
• Juliane Capaverde
  (PhD, August 2014, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  Grobner Bases: Degree Bounds and Generic Ideals
  (Initial position: Postdoctoral Fellow, ???)[divider]
• Abhishek Pandey
  (PhD, May 2014, Advisor: Dr. Dimitrova).
  Modeling Dengue Transmission and Vaccination
  (Initial position: Postdoctoral Associate in Epidemiology, Yale school of public health)[divider]

• Justin Peachey
  (PhD, December 2011, Advisor: Dr. Matthews).
  Explicit bases for Riemann-Roch spaces of function fields with many rational places and applications.
  (Initial position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Davidson College.)[divider]
• Wittawat Kositwattanarer
  (PhD, 2011, Advisor: Dr. Matthews).
  Pseudocodewords of parity-check codes.
  (Initial position:Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.)[divider]
• Lori Layne
  (PhD, 2011, Advisor:Dr. Dimitrova).
  Pseudocodewords of parity-check codes.
  Properties and applications of nested and partially nested canalyzing functions.
  (Initial position: Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.)[divider]
• Frank Volny
  (PhD, 2011, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  New Algorithms for Computing Gobner Bases.
  (Initial position: National Security Agency.)[divider]
• Nathan Drake
  (PhD, December 2009, Advisor: Dr. Matthews)
  Decoding of multipoint algebraic geometry codes via lists.
  (Initial position: Assistant Professor, North Greenville University.)[divider]
• Raymond Heindl
  (PhD 2009, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  New Directions in Multivariate Public Key Cryptography.
  (Initial position: National Security Agency.)[divider]
• Mingfu Zhu
  (PhD 2009, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  Modelling HIV Drug Resistance.
  (Initial position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University.)[divider]
• Genhua Guan
  (PhD 2009, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  Factoring Polynomials and Groebner Bases.
  [divider]
• Jang-Woo Park
  (PhD 2009, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  Discrete Dynamics over Finite Fields.
  (Initial position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Clemson University.)[divider]
• Todd Mateer
  (PhD 2008, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  Fast Fourier Transform Algorithms with Applications.
  (Initial position: National Security Agency.)[divider]
• Padmapani Seneviratne
  (PhD 2007, Advisor: Dr. Key).
  Permutation decoding of codes from graphs and designs.
  (Initial position: Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, UAE.)[divider]
• Prasit Limbupasiriporn
  (PhD 2005, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  Hidden subgroup problem in quantum computing.
  (Initial position: faculty member, Department of Mathematics, Silpakorn University, Thailand.)[divider]
• Jirapha Limbupasiriporn
  (PhD 2005, Advisor: Dr. Key).
  Partial permutation decoding for codes from designs and finite geometries.
  (Initial position: faculty member, Department of Mathematics, Silpakorn University, Thailand.)[divider]
• Virginia Rodrigues
  (PhD 2003, Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  Multivariate polynomials : irreducibility and Groebner bases.
  (Initial position: Faculty member, PUCRS, Faculdade de Matematica, Brazil.)[divider]
• Jeffrey Farr
  (PhD 2003 Advisor: Dr. Gao).
  Computing Groebner bases, with applications to Pade approximation and algebraic coding theory.
  (Initial position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Canada; now at National Security Agency.)[divider]
• Peng Ding
  (PhD 2000, Advisor: Dr. Key).
  Minimum-weight generators for generalized Reed-Muller codes.
  (Initial position: Financial Analyst, Fair Issac, California.)[divider]
• Kelle Clark
  (PhD 2000 Advisor: Dr. Key).
  Bounds for the minimum weight of the dual codes of some classes of designs.
  (Initial position: Queen’s College, Charllote, NC.)[divider]
• Don Mills
  (PhD 1999, Advisors: Drs. Brawley and Gao).
  Root-based polynomial compositions over finite fields.
  (Initial position: Davies Fellow, NCR/ARL/USMA, Amy Research Lab, West Point, NY.)[divider]
• F. D. Shobe
  (PhD 1997, Advisor: Dr. Key).
  On a class of Steiner systems.
  [divider]
• Laurel Carpenter
  (PhD 1996, Advisor: Dr. Key).
  Designs and codes from hyperovals.
  [divider]