University of Rochester · Academic-year research program

University of Rochester StemForAll2026-2027continuation

All eight projects from the StemForAll2026 summer program are continuing during the 2026–2027 academic year. Current participants remain involved, and new students are welcome to join.

Continuation

Research throughout the academic year

The continuation program gives students and supervisors an opportunity to build on the work begun during the summer workshop. Additional information about meetings, activities, and project plans will be added as it becomes available.

Projects

Continuing research groups

T1. Signal Recovery

The non-abelian recovery, Fourier ratio and graph recovery, and Parseval frames recovery groups will continue their theoretical and applied work.

Supervisors: Karam Aldahleh (Oxford), Sam Ferguson, Vishal Gupta (UR Math), Gabe Hart (UR CS), Alex Iosevich (UR Math), Joshua Iosevich (RIT Math), Azita Mayeli (CUNY Math), Akshay Sant (UR Math), and Tran Duy Anh Le (UCSD Math).

Participants: Gideon Afriyie, Karam Aldahleh, Kenneth Fei, Gabe Hoag, Suleman Khan, Misha Jindal, Alhussein Khalil, Julian King, Austin O'Connor, James-Lucius Okenwa, Gus Smith, Ben Song, Claire Strobel, Suva Parvin Srithe, Erdem Togay, Sinan Yang, Fiona Zhang, and Yiyi Zhao.

T2. Analyzing the Fractal Dimension Distribution of EEG Data to Classify Seizures

This group will continue developing mathematical tools for estimating fractal-dimension distributions and applying them to seizure detection.

Supervisors: Svetlana Pack (Penn State Math) and Jacob Canel (Penn State Math).

Participants: Grace Brandt, Josie Elliston, Oscar Jackson, Aashi Jindal, Ethan Kang, Nadia Lach-Hab, Ziqing Li, Shana Kester, Pitambar Pandey, Farid Rohan, Ria Vaish, Jin Yuan, and Lior Zendel.

T3. Fixed Points of the Conjugate in the Steenrod Algebra

This group will continue investigating fixed points of the conjugation automorphism in finite portions of the Steenrod algebra.

Supervisor: Elizabeth Tatum (UR Math),

Participants: Ishika Jahaly, Logan Singh, and Showmee Zhou.

T4. Numerical Solutions of PDEs Arising in Geometry

This group will continue its numerical investigation of rotationally symmetric self-shrinkers for mean curvature flow.

Supervisor: Stephen Kleene (UR Math).

Participants: Zoe Juergensen

A1. Sales Modeling

This group will continue building and testing neural-network models using economic indicators for sales prediction and inventory optimization.

Supervisors: Vishal Gupta (UR Math), Gabe Hart (UR CS), and Alex Iosevich (UR Math).

Participants: John Anastasi, Arjun Kanani, Bowen Li, and Owen Zhao.

A2. Useless Neurons

This group will continue studying methods for identifying and pruning relatively unimportant or redundant neurons in artificial neural networks.

Supervisors: Kunko Zou (UR Math) and Yan Zou (UR Math).

Participants: Wenzan Fan, Jiarui Feng, Sanjay Makam, Alex Phillips, Armaan Sapra, Zihao Wang, Zhongtian Zhai, Daiming Zhou, Kunko Zou, and Yan Zou.

A3. Financial Mathematics

This group will continue investigating real-time hot-search topic rankings for predictive asset pricing and event-driven reinforcement-learning financial trading.

Supervisor: Jiajun Du (UR Math)

Participants: Polina Chub, Xingyan Jin, Hanzhang Li, Jingyi Li, and Ilia Lukinov.

P1. Quantum Random Walks and Quantum Random Circuits

This group will continue exploring iterated quantum transformations with random, fixed-unitary, and possibly classical components.

Supervisor: Alice Quillen (UR Physics).

Participants: Benjamin Akararatovic

Participation

Joining the continuation program

New students are welcome to join the continuing research projects. Please contact Alex Iosevich at alex.iosevich@rochester.edu and we will immediately include you in one of the ongoing project. New projects may appear as well.