I have been thrilled to be involved in the training of a number of highly-qualified research personnel in mathematics and mathematical physics, here in Saskatchewan and prior.
My research group at the University of Saskatchewan consists of:
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Maneesha Ampagouni (PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised with C. Wendlandt), August 2026 — present
- Raphaël Belliard (quanTA Resarch Associate), Janaury 2025 — June 2025
- Kuntal Banerjee (quanTA Postdoctoral Fellow), June 2024 — December 2024
- Eric Boulter (quanTA, Living Skies, and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow), September 2023 — present
- Canon Sun (PIMS CRG Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised wth I. Boettcher and J. Maciejko), April 2023 — August 2025
- Mohsen Karkheiran (quanTA Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised with C. Doran and R. Moraru), January 2023 — present
- Matthew Rupert (PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised with A. Weekes and C. Wendlandt), July 2022 — July 2024
- Kazuki Ikeda (PIMS CRG Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised with J. Maciejko), October 2021 — September 2022
- Shi-Hao Li (quanTA Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised with J. Szmigielski), April 2021 — September 2022
- Alessandro Malusà (PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow), August 2018 — July 2020
PhD Students
- Mehdi Khalaj (Graduate Teaching Fellowship, co-supervised with L. Jin), September 2025 — present
- Sam Mulholland (Graduate Teaching Fellowship, co-supervised with A. Weekes and C. Wendlandt), September 2025 — present
- Ahmed Mahmoud (Robert Falside Stoddart Memorial Scholarship), May 2025 — present
- Mahmud Azam (University of Saskatchewan Dean's Scholarship and NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship D), September 2022 — present
- Edward Utama (NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship M, co-supervised with J. Szmigielski), September 2022 — present
- Matthew Koban (based at University of Toronto, co-supervised with L. Jeffrey), September 2022 — present
- Sheldon Miller, September 2021 — present
- Davood Nejaty (based at University of Melbourne, co-supervised with G. Zhao and Y. Yang), January 2021 — September 2025 (Complete), Thesis: Towards a Topological Mirror Symmetry for a Landau-Ginzburg Analogue of Hitchin Moduli Spaces
- Kuntal Banerjee (Graduate Teaching Fellowship), September 2020 — April 2024 (Complete), Thesis: Geometry of the Hitchin Morphism and Spectral Correspondences
- Christopher Mahadeo (Robert Falside Stoddart Memorial Scholarship and University of Saskatchewan Teacher-Scholar Doctoral Fellow), September 2017 — July 2023 (Complete), Thesis: Twisted Higgs Bundles, Topological Recursion, and Quantum Curves
MSc Students
- Kenneth Duff (NSERC CREATE in Computational Agriculture Scholarship, co-supervised with I. McQuillan), September 2026 — present
- Jason Main (Graduate Teaching Fellowship), September 2026 — present
- Emily Alexander (Brian Dale Goodchild Award and Robert R. Moffatt Scholarship, co-supervised with G. Sarty), September 2025 — present
- Jeremy Bell (CGPS 75th Anniversary Scholarship, co-supervised with T. Bui), September 2025 — present
- Cole Dutchyn (Graduate Teaching Fellowship, co-supervised with A. Weekes), September 2025 — present
- Dominic George (Graduate Teaching Fellowship, co-supervised with G. Broderick), September 2025 — present
- Riley Rawn (Graduate Teaching Fellowship), September 2024 — present
- Jacob Peckham (DICE Fellowship, co-supervised with D. Makaroff), September 2022 — September 2025, Thesis: A Distributed Architecture For HPC-Style Quantum Computing
- Ahmed Mahmoud (University of Saskatchewan Graduate Teaching Fellowship, co-supervised with J. Szmigielski), September 2021 — April 2023 (Complete), Thesis: New Perspectives on Integrable Hamiltonian Systems via the Algebraic Geometry of Twisted Hitchin Moduli Spaces: A Case Study on the Calogero-Françoise Integrable System
- Sheldon Miller (NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship M, co-supervised with J. Rajchgot), September 2020 — July 2021 (Complete), Thesis: Interpretations of Stability for Twisted Quiver Representations on the Projective Line
- Evan Sundbo (NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship), January 2017 — July 2019 (Complete), Thesis: The Geometry and Topology of Twisted Quiver Varieties
Undergraduate Researchers
- Aino Dyring (quanTA USRA Student, visiting from Uppsala University), Summer 2026
- Eshna (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2026
- Michael WeWeert, quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2026
- Danylo Volenko, quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2026
- Shivansi Prajapati (Research Topics in Computer Science), Fall 2025 — Spring 2026, Paper: Quantum Machine Learning with a Focus on QAOA for Max-Cut
- Ashley Moran (Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis), Fall 2025 — Spring 2026, Thesis: Fractional Calculus and q-Deformed Lie Algebras: A Possible Connection with MRI Dynamics
- Upkar Singh (quanTA-VIDO USRA Student), Fall 2025 —
- Luis Pablo Gonzalez Dominguez (quanTA USRA Student and Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis), Summer 2025 — Spring 2026, Thesis: Quantum Kernel Estimation in Support Vector Machines for the Docking of 9-mer Peptides to Immune Receptor, winner of 2025-2026 Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Interdisciplinary)
- Pahul Singh (NSERC USRA Student), Summer 2025
- Jason Broderick (quanTA-VIDO USRA Student), Summer 2024 — Spring 2025
- Aspen Erlandsson Brisebois (quanTA-VIDO USRA Student), Summer 2024 — Spring 2025
- Jeremy Bell (quanTA USRA Student and Mathematics Honours Thesis), Summer 2024 — Summer 2025
- Fiona Butler (quanTA USRA Student, visiting from University of Toronto), Summer 2024 — Summer 2025
- Anna McQuillan (quanTA USRA Student and Mathematics Honours Thesis), Summer 2024 — Summer 2025, Thesis: Determinants within the Lie Algebra
- Hakeem Hannoon (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2024
- Thomas Purdy (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2023 — Spring 2024, Thesis: On Constructing the Ordinals and the Surreals
- Kenzie Taylor (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2023 — Spring 2024, Thesis: Statistics in Quantum Computing, winner of 2023-2024 Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Interdisciplinary)
- Jason Main (NSERC USRA Student and Mathematics Honours Thesis), Summer 2023 — Summer 2026, Thesis: Visualizing Commuting Varieties of Lie Algebras, winner of 2024-2025 Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Mathematics)
- Riley Rawn (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2023 — Summer 2024
- Mykya Shvets (NSERC USRA Student), Summer 2023
- Graeme Dyck (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2022 — Spring 2023, Thesis: Algebra, Music, and Interpretation, winner of 2022-2023 Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Interdisciplinary)
- Aaron San Jose (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2022 — Spring 2023, Thesis: Some Observations About the Complex Projective Line and the Topology of Surfaces, winner of 2023-2023 Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Communication)
- Keenan Nystrom (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2022
- Tarah Teixeira (NSERC USRA Student and Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis), Summer 2022 — Summer 2024, Thesis: Quantum Penny Flip, winner of 2022-2023 Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Mathematics)
- Kohlton Booth (Computer Science Honours Thesis), Fall 2021 — Spring 2022, Thesis: Solving a Multi Objective Markov Decision Process Using a Differentiable Scalarization Function
- Jeremy Lee (Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis), Fall 2021 — Winter 2022
- Vyom Patel (Mathematics Honours Thesis and quanTA USRA Student), Fall 2021 — Summer 2023, Thesis: Data-Driven Dynamical Systems, winner of 2021-2022 Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Interdisciplinary)
- Mahmud Azam (Mathematics Honours Thesis and NSERC USRA Student), Fall 2020 — Summer 2021, Thesis: Quantum Information through Topological Quantum Field Theories, winner of 2021-2022 Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Mathematics), Earl of Bessborough Prize, and Haslam Medal
- Elliot Kienzle (quanTA USRA Student, visiting from University of Maryland), Summer 2021
- Elizabeth Reid (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2020 — Spring 2021, Thesis: The Mathematics of Singing: An Analysis of Current Mathematical Models of the Singing Voice, winner of 2020-2021 Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Interdisciplinary)
- Alan Cook (quanTA USRA Student and Mathematics Honours Thesis), Summer 2020 — Spring 2021
- Edward Utama (NSERC USRA Student and Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis), Summer 2020 — Spring 2021, Thesis: Majorana Fermions and 1D Fermionic Chains
- Travis Black (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2020
- Dominic George (University USRA / quanTA USRA Student and Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis), Summer 2020 — Spring 2022, Thesis: Approximating Closed Time-Like Curves through First Integrals
- Max Wang (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2019 — Spring 2020, Thesis: Burnside's Lemma and Its Generalizations
- Robert Cornea (Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis and quanTA USRA Student), Fall 2019 — Summer 2021, Thesis: Asymptotics of the Moduli Space of Higgs bundles
- Emily Carrick (Department USRA Student, visiting from McGill University), Summer 2019
- Matthew Koban (NSERC USRA Student and Mathematics Honours Thesis), Summer 2019 — Spring 2020, Thesis: Operations on Quiver Varieties
- Jacob Taylor (NSERC USRA Student and Mathematics Honours Thesis), Summer 2019 — Spring 2020, Thesis: The Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Its Connection to Isomonodromy Problems
- Brennan Rodgers (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2019
- Kuntal Banerjee (SURI Exchange Student), Summer 2019
- Pratik Kayal (SURI Exchange Student), Summer 2019
- Brandon Gill (Department USRA Student), Summer 2019
- Sandeep Yadav (SURI Exchange Student), Summer 2018
- Nicole Zolkavich (NSERC USRA Student), Summer 2018 and Summer 2019
- Thomas Stanley (NSERC USRA Student), Summer 2018
- Aidan Lindberg (University USRA Student), Summer 2017 and Summer 2018
- Peter Yuen (Department USRA Student), Summer 2017