PhD in Applied Mathematics

Mathematicians and statisticians are prepared for research and academic careers by this doctoral program within the School of Computing. Students move from advanced classes into independent study and then original research. The department calls itself an active research center, with faculty working on statistics, stochastic analysis, optimal control, data science, computational methods and applied discrete mathematics. Course content overlaps with that of related graduate programs in data science, financial technology, and decision science with operations research. Students can join a SIAM chapter, a chapter of the statistical association and a machine learning group. Assistantships in teaching and research pay for tuition and add a monthly stipend. Reported alumni employers include banks and financial firms, universities, airlines, start-ups and technology companies. The program has a STEM designation and satisfies F-1 visa rules.