Students and long term visitors
Current Students:
Simon Kuttner (co-supervision with Z. Gao), MSc student, Fall 2021-
Tong Lin, PhD student, Fall 2021-
Nihal Yurdakul Uyar (co-supervision with Daniel Panario), PhD student, Fall 2021-
Farzad Maghsoudi, PhD student, January 2021-
Stephen Tran, Dean's Summer Research Internship, May 2022-August 2022.
Visitors and Postdocs:
Alexander Bors, Postdoc, November 2020-September 2022.
Jianying Fang, visiting researcher, Novmeber 2019-April 2020.
Aleksandr Tuxanidy, Postdoc. October 2018-September 2019.
Zuling Chang, visiting researcher, November 2018-April 2019.
Xiaoping Li, visiting researcher, November 2017- November 2018.
Xubo Zhao, visiting researcher, November 2017- November 2018.
Murat Sahin, July 2018-September 2018.
Yuhua Sun, visiting researcher, September 2016-September 2017.
Ming Su, visiting researcher, September 2015-September 2016.
David Thomson, visiting researcher, January 2013--December 2014.
Sartaj Ul Hasan: post-doc (co-supervision with D. Panario), 2012.
Murat Sahin: post-doc (co-supervision with D. Panario), 2012.
Past graduate students
Trevor Thompson (MSc) (cosupervision with Daniel Panario), Cycle length of finite cyclotomic mappings, completed in January 2022.
Lisha Li, visiting PhD student, November 2018-October 2019.
Yanping Wang, visiting PhD student, November 2018-October 2019.
Aleksandr Tuxanidy (PhD), defended in September 2018. Thesis title: Problems on permutation and irreducible polynomials.
Zynab Alshareef (MSc), defended in September 2018. Thesis title: Composed Product and Factorization of Cyclotomic Polynomials over Finite Fields.
Kaitlyn Chubb (MSc) (co-supervision with Daniel Panario), defended in May 2018. Thesis title: Fixed Points of Rational Functions Satisfying the Carlitz Property.
Ellen Murdock (MSc), defended in September 2017. Project title:
Cyclotomic mappings: an exploration into new and old properties.
Ommkaltoum Omar, MSc, defended in January 2016. Thesis title: Deficiency and Ambiguity of low degree permutation polynomials.
Jing
(Jane) He, PhD (co-supervision with Daniel Panario), completed in 2013. Thesis title: Interleaved sequences over finite fields.
Arikushi
, MSc (co-supervision with Daniel Panario), defended on September 2, 2008. Thesis title: Almost perfect nonlinear functions.
Baoyong Wang, MSc, graduated in August 2009.
Lu Chen, MSc, graduated
in February 2007.
Past Research Award students
Simon Kuttner, May -August 2021, NSERC USRA.
Daniel Klotz, Dean's Summer Research Internship, May-August 2021.
Simon Kuttner May -August 2020, NSERC USRA (co-supervision with J. Gao).
Jessica Malek, May -August 2019, Dean's Summer Research Student.
Simon Kuttner May -August 2019, NSERC USRA (co-supervision with J. Gao).
Trevor Thompson May-August 2018, NSERC USRA. (co-supervision with D. Panario)
Simon Kuttner May -August 2018, Dean's Summer Research Student. (co-supervision with J. Gao)
Joseph Lentini, May-August 2016, Dean's summer research student. (co-supervision with D. Panario)
Flash Thompson, May-August 2016, Dean's summer research student.(co-supervision with D. Panario).
Aleksandr Tuxanidy, April to Septebmer 2014, NSERC Engage Project with Irdeto (http://irdeto.com/), finite fields transforms for software protection.
Anja Radakovic, undergraduate research assistantship, May to August 2014.
Ellen Murdock, NSERC Engage project with Irdeto (http://irdeto.com/), May to August 2014.
Joshua Hefler, Summer Undergraduate Research, May-August 2008 (co-supervision with D. Panario).
Jordan Bell (co-supervised with
Brett Stevens), NSERC
Undergraduate Research Award, May to August 2006.
Jordan Bell, Undergraduate Research Assistantship,
September to December 2005.
Past Honours Students
Simon Kuttner, Honours Project, title: On the enumeration of polynomials with prescribed factorization pattern, completed in May 2021.
Trevor Thompson, cosuperivision with Daniel Panario, Honours project, title: Semi-involutions over finite fields, completed in May 2019.
Anja Radakovic, Honours Project, title: Deep holes of Reed-Solomon codes: a summary of results, completed in January 2014.
Ellen Murdock, Honours Project, title: The use of the polynomial method in selected problems, completed in Janunary 2014.
Aleksandr Tuxanidy Torres, Honours Project, title: Composed products and factorization of cyclotomic polynomials over finite fields, completed in August 2011.
Khan Muneer co-supervision with Brett Stevens), Honours Project, title:On sonnar sequences, completed in May 2010.
Olga Sosnovksi (co-supervision with Daniel Panario), Honours Project, title: Divisibility of polynomials over finite fields and combinatorial applications, completed in May 2009.
Alex Suvc, Honours Project, title: On Deletion Codes, completed in May 2009.
Bryan English, Honours Project,
title: Frequency permutation
arrays, completed in May 2007.
Joshua Ulla,
Honours Project,
title: Starters and 1 factorizations of graphs, completed in May 2007. He is a graduate student at Carleton University now.
Tas Saleem, Honours Project, title: GH-cryptosystems, completed in
January 2007.
Jason Parent, Honours
Project, title: Algebraic loops,
completed in September 2006.
Adrian Chong,
Honours Project,
title: Finding the n-th term of linear recurrences, completed in September 2005.
Ranjith
Jeyabalan, Honours
Project, title: On Reed-Muller
Codes, completed in May 2005.
Ma, Honours
Project, title: Systolic Array
Mappings of Matrix Multiplications, completed in May 2005.