{"id":5711433,"date":"2026-01-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/?p=5711433"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:51:09","slug":"undergraduate-math-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/undergraduate-math-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate math research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of our faculty members and their work\u00a0providing undergrads\u00a0with research experiences. Interest students are encouraged to contact the faculty member directly via email.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/chyba\/\">Monique Chyba<\/a> has been working with undergraduates for many years, on drones, Covid, etc.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/egross\/\">Elizabeth Gross<\/a>\u00a0has worked with undergraduate students on topics related to her research in\u00a0<span style=\"color: #444444\">algebraic geometry, algebraic statistics, and algebraic biology.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/bjoernkh\/\">Bj\u00f8rn Kjos-Hanssen<\/a> works with undergraduate researchers sponsored by UROP (Summer 2019, Spring 2023) and sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decisionresearch.com\/drc-local-hawaii-research-and-education\/\">Decision Research Corporation<\/a> (Summers, <a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/actuarial-science\/2023\/09\/18\/decision-research-corporation-grant\/\">2020-2025<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/dtakagi\/\">Daisuke Takagi<\/a>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">Possible research topics include the dynamics of bacteria and plankton, collecting and analyzing data from laboratory experiments, and mathematical modeling with differential equations.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">Here&#8217;s a link to his lab\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1155cc\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/takagilab.com\/__;!!PvDODwlR4mBZyAb0!QCHbP88lx-nl_EIlIArY02ayys7NktYjtz2-ofb_w576vzBk7tjxe6FDbsViO46E_Ebsrv_rjWJXv5r8Iw$\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/takagilab.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/spost\/\">Sarah Widiasih Post<\/a>\u00a0has worked with undergraduate students on topics in mathematical physics, including projects supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/urop\/student-funding\/project\/about\/\">UROP<\/a> on solitons and integrable systems.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/rwillett\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rufus Willett<\/a> is interested in working with students on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222\">connections between linear algebra, topology, and analysis.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">Prerequisites will vary depending on the topic, but a good knowledge of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222\">the material in 307\/311, 321, and 331 is important.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/myounsi\/\">Malik Younsi<\/a> worked with an undergraduate researcher sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/urop\/student-funding\/project\/about\/\">UROP<\/a> (summer 2019)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/hailunz\/\">Hailun Zheng<\/a>\u00a0is interested in working with students on topics concerning the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222\">combinatorics of polytopes or simplicial complexes. Student should have knowledge of linear algebra and maybe a bit about combinatorics or topology.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Students interested in undergraduate research might also consider Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs). A list is available here:\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1155cc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/crssprgm\/reu\/list_result.jsp?unitid=5044\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/crssprgm\/reu\/list_result.jsp?unitid=5044<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of our faculty members and their work\u00a0providing undergrads\u00a0with research experiences. Interest students are encouraged to contact the faculty member directly via email. Monique Chyba has been working with undergraduates for many years, on drones, Covid, etc. Elizabeth Gross\u00a0has worked with undergraduate students on topics related to her research in\u00a0algebraic geometry, algebraic statistics, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/undergraduate-math-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Undergraduate math research<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":5711366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5711433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-undergrad-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5711433"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713252,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711433\/revisions\/5713252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5711366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}