Faculty
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| Igor Belegradek | John Etnyre | Mohammad Ghomi | Jennifer Hom |
| Riemannian geometry and geometric group theory | Low-dimensional topology, symplectic and contact geometry | Differential geometry, convexity, geometric knot theory | Heegaard–Floer homology, knot theory |
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| Thang Le | Michael Wolf | ||
| Quantum and finite type invariants of knots, 3–manifold topology | Teichmuller theory, Harmonic Maps, Minimal surfaces, Geometric Analysis |
Postdocs and Visitors
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| Neda Bagherifard Postdoc |
Jacob Erickson Postdoc |
Anup Poudel Postdoc |
| Low-Dimensional Topology and Heegaard Floer homology | Cartan geometries, locally homogeneous geometric structures, differential geometry | Quantum invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, tensor categories, and topological quantum field theories (TQFTs). |
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| Matteo Raffaelli Postdoc |
Randy Van Why Postdoc |
Shunyu Wan Postdoc |
| differential geometry, curves and surfaces in three-dimensional Euclidean space, more general submanifolds | low dimensional symplectic geometry, contact 3-manifolds, 4-dimensional geometric topology, complex and algebraic geometry. | 3 and 4 dimensional topology, Heegaard Floer homology, symplectic and contact topology |
Graduate Students
| Student | Started PhD program at GA Tech | Advisor |
| Alex Eldridge | 2022 | Etnyre |
| Sean Eli | 2022 | Etnyre |
| Parker Evans | 2018 | Wolf |
| Caifei Fan | 2023 | Etnyre |
| Jacob Guynee | 2022 | Margalit |
| Owen Huang | 2023 | Hom |
| Luis Yoo Kim | 2023 | Ghomi |
| Sierra Knavel | 2020 | Etnyre |
| Thomas Rodewald | 2020 | Etnyre |
| Yujung Seo | 2024 | Ghomi |
| Jaden Wang | 2022 | Etnyre |
| Xiaoming Yu | 2024 | Le |
Former Postdocs and Visitors
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| Jonathan Beardsley RTG postdoc 2019-2020 |
Wade Bloomquist RTG Postdoc 2019-2023 |
Austin Christian RTG postdoc 2021-2024 |
| Algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, category theory and homotopy theory | Low-dimensional and quantum topology | Contact and symplectic topology and geometry |
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| Ryan Dickmann RTG postdoc 2022-2024 |
Kevin Kordek RTG postdoc 2017-2020 |
Siddhi Krishna RTG Postdoc 2020-2021 |
| low-dimensional topology, geometric group theory, hyperbolic geometry, mapping class groups | Algebraic curves and their interplay with mapping class groups | Low-dimensional topology and contact and symplectic topology |
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| Miriam Kuzbary RTG & NSF Postdoc 2019-2023 |
Beibei Liu Hale Postdoc 2021-2022 |
Marissa Loving NSF Postdoc 2019-2022 |
| Low-dimensional, symplectic, and contact topology | link Floer homology, hyperbolic geometry, and geometry group theory | Low-dimensional topology and the mapping class group |
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| Peter Lambert-cole Postdoc 2017-2019 |
Caitlin Leverson NSF Postdoc 2016-2020 |
JungHwan Park Postdoc 2018-2021 |
| Low-dimensional topology and contact and symplectic topology | Low dimensional topology, symplectic topology, contact topology, and knot theory | Topology, Knot Theory, Three and Four-dimensional Manifolds |
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| Nur Saglam Visitor 2022-2023 |
Abdoul Karim Sane Postdoc 2022-2024 |
Jonathan Simone Postdoc 2021-2024 |
| Low-dimensional, symplectic, and contact topology | Low-dimensional topology | Low-dimensional, symplectic, and contact topology |
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| Balazs Strenner Hale postdoc 2016-2019 |
Hannah Turner RTG postdoc 2021-2024 |
Yvon Verberne NSERC Postdoc 2021-2022 |
| Low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory | Low-dimensional topology, ordered groups, and knots | Low-dimensional topology and the mapping class group |
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| Öykü Yurttaş Visitor 2014-2015 & 2022 |
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| Braid groups and mapping class groups |
Former Graduate Students
These are students advised by Georgia Tech faculty, though some received their degrees from other institutions.
Placement is the first job after receiving their PhD.
| Student | Year Graduated | Advisor | Placement |
| Weizhe Shen | 2025 | Hom | UC, Davis |
| Alex Nolte | 2025 | Wolf | NSF Postdoc, IHES |
| Katherine Booth | 2025 | Margalit | NSF Postdoc, Vanderbilt |
| Dan Minahan | 2024 | Margalit | University of Chicago |
| Roberta Shapiro | 2024 | Margalit | University of Michigan |
| Nicholas Barvinok | 2023 | Ghomi | |
| Agniva Roy | 2023 | Etnyre | LSU & Boston College |
| Hugo Zhou | 2023 | Hom | University of Michigan |
| Sally Collins | 2023 | Hom | Michigan State University |
| Tao Yu | 2023 | Le | International Center for Mathematics, Shenzhen |
| James Wenk | 2022 | Ghomi | Delta Airlines |
| Surena Hozoori | 2022 | Etnyre | Rochester University |
| Anubhav Mukherjee | 2022 | Etnyre | MSRI & Princeton |
| Xingyu Zhu | 2022 | Belegradek | Fields Institute |
| Ece Gülşah Çolak | 2021 | Etnyre | Bülent Ecevit University |
| Sudipta Kolay | 2021 | Etnyre | ICERM |
| Hyun Ki Min | 2021 | Etnyre | MIT |
| Justin Lanier | 2020 | Margalit | University of Chicago |
| Andrew McCullough | 2019 | Etnyre | GTRI |
| Shane Scott | 2018 | Margalit | Unknown |
| James Conway | 2016 | Etnyre | UC Berkeley |
| Jing Hu | 2015 | Belegradek | NCR |
| Amey Kolati | 2014 | Etnyre | Uni. Iowa |
| Hyunshik Shin | 2014 | Margalit | Uni. of Illinois at Chicago |
| Thao Vuong | 2014 | Garoufalidis | Studying for 2nd Ph.D |
| Rebecca Winarski | 2014 | Margalit | Wittenberg University |
| Meredith Casey | 2013 | Etnyre | Uni. of Colorado, Colorado Springs |
| Bülent Tosun | 2012 | Etnyre | CIRGET postdoc, Montreal |
| Anh Tran | 2012 | Le | Ohio State University |
| Eric Choi | 2012 | Belegradek | Restaurant Manager |
| Roland van der Veen | 2010 | Garoufalidis | University of Amsterdam |
| Sinem Onaran | 2009 | Etnyre | Leibniz Fellowship |
| David Shea Vela-Vick | 2009 | Etnyre | NSF Postdoc at Columbia U. |
| Elena Pavelescu | 2008 | Etnyre | Rice University |
| Rafal Komendarczyk | 2006 | Ghrist | University of Pennsylvania |
| Iain Moffatt | 2006 | Garoufalidis | Karlovska University |
| Dorin Cheptea | 2005 | Le | University of Strasbourgh |
| Jiangnan Fan | 2005 | Le | Unknown |
| Vu Huynh | 2005 | Le | National University of Hochiminh City |
| Stephan Schönenberger | 2005 | Etnyre | Winterthur Insurance |
| James Tripp | 2005 | Etnyre | NSA |
| Yulia Tyurina | 2005 | Ghomi | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Qi Chen | 2004 | Le | Ohio State University |
Former Faculty
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| Stavros Garoufalidis | Dan Margalit | Kirsten Wickelgren |
| Southern University of Science and Technology, China | Vanderbilt University | Duke University |