Meet the Sindi Lab 

We are an Awesome Team of Collaborative Researchers! 

Current Members 

PhD Students

Jordan Collignon 


PhD CandidateApplied Mathematics
jcollignon@ucmerced.edu
Personal Website

Suraj Sahu


PhD StudentPhysics
Advisor: Ajay Gopinathan

ssahu2@ucmerced.edu

Personal Website

Brandon Imstepf


Graduate Student ResearcherUC Merced G-RISE I-BioSTeP FellowApplied Mathematics

bimstepf@ucmerced.edu

Moitrish Majumdar 


PhD StudentApplied Mathematics

mmajumdar@ucmerced.edu
Personal Website 

Theo Loureaux


PhD Student
Applied Mathematics

Co-Advised w/ Dr. Laurent Pujo-Menjouet

tloureaux@ucmerced.edu



Jaime Madrigal


PhD StudentApplied Mathematics
Co-Advised w/ Dr. Karin Leiderman
University of North Carolina

Maia Powell


PhD CandidateNSF GRFP FellowApplied Mathematics
mpowell2@ucmerced.edu

Fabian Santiago


Postdoctoral ResearcherApplied Mathematics

 Alumni

Tyrome Sweet


PhD in Quantitative &
Systems Biology
Winter 2023

ATLANTIS Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Emory University

Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn 


Postdoctoral ScholarApplied Mathematics
Assistant Professor of MathematicsCal State East Bay

Akshay Paropkari 


PhD in Quantitative and Systems BiologyWinter 2021
Bioinformatics Scientist, Clear Labs

Ali Heydari 


PhD in Applied MathematicsFall 202
Research Scientist, Google

Alex John Quijano


PhD in Applied MathematicsSummer 2021
Assistant Professor, University of Portland

Fabian Santiago


PhD in Applied MathematicsSummer 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher at
University of California, Merced

Thaddeus Seher 


PhD in Quantitative and Systems BiologySummer 2021

Paul Lemarre


PhD in Applied Mathematics, Spring 2021
(Co-Advising w/ Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, Lyon)


Biomodeler at Novadiscovery 

Melissa Anisko


M.S. Applied Mathematics, Spring 2020

Faculty at Diablo Valley College

Michael Stobb 


PhD in Applied MathematicsSpring 2019
Assistant professor of Data Science at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Eric Roberts


PhD in Applied MathematicsSpring 2019
Postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Mario Banuelos


PhD in Applied Mathematics,Spring 2018
Associate Professor of Mathematics at California State University, Fresno

Jason Dark


PhD in Applied MathematicsSpring 2017
Principal Market Scientist at Tremor Technologies, Inc

Ayme Tomson


PhD in Cognitive & Information Science Summer 2021

Elizabeth Owens


M.S. Applied MathematicsFaculty at Las Positas College

Lihong Zhao


Postdoctoral Researcher at Virginia Tech

Jonathan Anzules 


PhD CandidateQuantitative and Systems Biology
janzules@ucmerced.edu

Amandeep Kaur


PhD StudentApplied Mathematics

Co-Advised w/ Dr. Karin Leiderman
Colorado School of Mines

akaur87@ucmerced.edu