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Undergraduate RIMMES (RESEARCH INITIATIONS IN MATHEMATICS, MATHEMATICS EDUCATION AND STATISTICS) at Georgia State University


The Department of Mathematics and Statistics announces the twentieth edition of the program Undergraduate Research Initiations in Mathematics, Mathematics Education and Statistics (for short, RIMMES), open to undergraduate students at Georgia State University.

The program goal is to introduce undergraduate students to research in mathematics, mathematics education and statistics. The program will teach the students how to recognize interesting research problems, develop new ideas, compare them to old ones, and present their findings in papers or posters. The students will benefit from close interaction with faculty members and their peers.

The students interested in pursuing a minor/major in Mathematics and Statistics are eligible to enroll in Math 4982 and receive credit for the work done for RIMMES towards the minor/major. Please ask Dr Enescu for details.

Duration of the program: about five months starting with September 17, 2024 .
Application Form.

Structure: the students accepted to this program will each be paired with a faculty mentor and they will decide together on a research project and how to organize their meetings. The faculty mentor will supervise the student and make sure that appropriate progress is made. The student will prepare a final project report in May 2025 and present in a departmental conference in April 2025.


Current Participants: October 2024 - May 2025

The participants are listed in alphabetically order, based on the mentor's last name.


Mentor: Dr. Igor Belykh

Student: Aditi Trivedi, Project:Functional network approach to seizure onset localization


Mentor: Dr. Guantao Chen

Student: Naomi Fox, Project: Graph Edge Coloring


Mentor: Dr Florian Enescu

Student: Adedamola Akapo, Project: The rational twist of a direct product of semigroups of weight (1,3),
Student: Abhijeet Bhalkikar, Project: On the rational twist of an affine semigroup
Student: Joshith Reddy, Project: The rational twist of a direct product of semigroups of weight (3,3)


Mentor: Dr Russell Jeter

Student: Abdul Syed. Project: Identifying Sepsis in the ICU: A Machine Learning Perspective.


Mentor: Dr Yi Jiang

Student: Paloma Hodje. Project: Fusion or Purse-string: Modeling Wound Healing in Retina Pigment Epithelium.
Students: Xuyang Sun, Haochen Ye. Project: Closing the Gap: Role of Fibroblast Differentiation in Wound Healing.


Mentor: Dr Pejman Sanaei

Students: Tianle Cao, Amy Sims, Project: On mathematical modeling of cell proliferation in tissue-engineering scaffolds with branching channels
Students: Pablo Fernandez, Amy Sims, Project: On mathematical modeling of deposition and erosion in porous media with elastic branching channels


Mentor: Dr Yichuan Zhao

Students: Runxi Cao, Xiaohan Sun, Project: The impact and treatment of the COVID-19 on diabetic patients
Students: Haolin Lyu, Enxi Zhang, Project: The effect of using different prediction models for heart disease on prediction probability
Students: Ziheng Qiu, Yongyan He, Project: Using a logistic regression model to predict the relationship between a factor and the onset of Alzheimer's disease
Students: Jonah Thov, Animesh Shrestha, Projects A Statistical Analysis on Macroeconomic Variables as Leading Indicators of Performance,
Student: Hanhong Wan, Project: Factors Affecting Depression
Student: Qing Huang, Project:Pregnancy Depression in Southwest part of China
Student: Miaofei Yin, Project: HIV/AIDS prevalence and survival analysis of patients with predictive factors for mortality rate
Students: Chengxi Zhou, Xinyan Li, Project: Linking Obesity to Increased Breast Cancer Incidence in Postmenopausal Women.
Student: Snigdha Addagarla, Project: Title TBD




News from the 2023-2024 Edition:
The following students have completed succesfully the RIMMES program: E. Abel-Guobadia, A. Akapo, V. Bangrae, H. Cui, R. Ghosh, I. Goodspeed, Z. Huang, S. Kunnatha, M. James, P. Joseph, W. Genoway, L. Qin, A. Sims, K. Saber, X. Sun, Z. Tao, B. Vazquez, H. Ye, Y. Zhang. Congratulations to them and their mentors: Drs. Enescu, Kong, Jiang, Sanaei, Yichuan Zhao.



News from the 2022-2023 Edition:
The following students have completed succesfully the RIMMES program: N. Anteau, D. Demin, M. Drotenko, P. Ilic, L. Mei, A. Nimbalkar, M. Quiros, A. Ramacharran, A. Samandari, B, Vazquez, S. Yellu, Y. Zhang, Z. Zhang. Congratulations to them and their mentors: Drs. Arav, Belykh, Enescu, Montiel, van der Holst, Ye, Yi Zhao, Yichuan Zhao.


News from the 2021-2022 Edition:
Dr Yi Zhao and his RIMMES student Abhijeet Bhalkikar have published their research on the RIMMES project from 2021-2022 in a Q1 journal (with impact factor 0.961):
On subgraphs of tripartite graphs, Discrete Mathematics 346 (2023), no. 1, Paper No. 113152