Current Students:

• Raman Aliakseyeu (Ga Tech)
• Sean Eli (Ga Tech)
• Caifei Fan (Ga Tech)
• Aidan Latona (Ga Tech)
• Zhuochen (Jaden) Wang (Ga Tech)

• Sierra Knavel-Runner (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Summer 2026
• Thesis: On the topology of Lefschetz fibrations
• Placement: Ashland University


• Thomas Rodewald (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Spring 2026
• Thesis: Legendrian links and Lagrangian cobordisms
• Placement: Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University


• Agniva Roy (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Summer 2023
• Thesis: Constructions and invariants of high-dimensional Legendrian submanifolds
• Placement: Louisiana State University and Boston College


• Surena Hozoori (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Summer 2022
• Thesis: Contact Geometric Theory of Anosov Flows in Dimension Three and Related Topics
• Placement: University of Rochester


• Anubhav Mukherjee (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Summer 2022
• Thesis: On Embedding 3-Manifolds into Symplectic 4-manifold
• Placement: MSRI and Princeton


• Ece Gül?ah Çolak (co-advisor, Bulent Ecevit University)
• Graduated: Fall 2021
• Thesis:Legendrian Whitehead Links
• Placement: Bulent Ecevit University


• Sudipta Kolay (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Summer 2021
• Thesis: Branched Covers and Braided Embeddings
• Placement: ICERM


• Hyun Ki Min (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Summer 2021
• Thesis: Classification of tight contact structures on the Weeks manifold
• Placement: MIT


• Andrew McCullough (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Summer 2019
• Thesis: Legendrian large cables and non-uniformly thick knots
• Placement: Georgia Tech Research Institute, Smyrna, GA.


• Jamie Conway (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Summer 2016
• Thesis: Transverse surgery on knots in contact three-manifolds
• Placement: University of California, Berkely.


• Amey Katoli (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Spring 2014
• Thesis: Stein fillings of contact structures supported by planar open books
• Placement: University of Iowa.


• Meredith Casey (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Fall 2013
• Thesis: Branched Covers of Contact Manifolds
• Placement: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.


• Bulent Tosun (Ga Tech)
• Graduated: Summer 2012
• Thesis: Legendrian and transverse knots and their invariants
• Placement: CIRGET postdoc, Montreal, Canada; and Postdoc, Max Plank Institute, Bonn, Germany


• Sinem Onaran (Celik) (co-advisor, METU)
• Graduated: Summer 2009
• Thesis: Legendrian knots and open book decompositions
• Placement: Leibniz Fellowship at Oberwolfach, Germany


• David Shea Vick (U Penn).
• Graduated: Spring 2009
• Thesis: Applications of Ozsváth-Szabó invariants to contact geometry
• Placement: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, New York NY


• Elena Pavelescu(Bogdan) (U Penn).
• Graduated: Spring 2008
• Thesis: Braids and open book decompositions
• Placement: G.C. Evans Instructor Rice University, Houston TX


• Stephan Schönenberger (U Penn)
  • Graduated: Summer 2005
  • Thesis: Planar open books and symplectic fillings
  • Placement: Winterthur Insurance, Zurich Switzerland
  
  
• James Tripp (U Penn)
  • Graduated: Spring 2005
  • Thesis: Contact structures on open 3-manifolds
  • Placement: 4R Systems, Wayne PA