Student research opportunities

  • I will not be accepting new graduate students until September 2027. Please send me an email if interested.


Current students

  • Davy Brooks, MSc, since Sep. 2025.

  • Mary Rose Jerade, PhD, since Jan. 2024. Thesis: The Honeymoon Oberwolfach Problem: a Recursive Approach.

  • Masoomeh Akbari, PhD, Sep. 2020 — Sep. 2025. Thesis: The Generalized Honeymoon Oberwolfach Problem.


Past students

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Aras Erzurumuolu, Jan. 2017 — July 2018 (co-supervised with Lucia Moura, Mike Newman, and Brett Stevens)

  • Amin Bahmanian, Nov. 2012 — Aug. 2014 (co-supervised with Mike Newman)

  • Nevena Francetić, Sep. 2012 — Aug. 2013 (co-supervised with Brett Stevens)

  • Primoz Potočnik,  Aug. 2003 — Jan. 2004

PhD Students

  • Alice Lacaze-Masmonteil, Sep. 2020 —Sep. 2024. Thesis: Certain Resolvable Directed Cycle Decompositions.

  • Marusa Lekse, VSR, July 2023 — Sep. 2023. Project: New Solutions to Certain Cases of the Oberwolfach Problem and Its Variants.

  • Lord Kavi, Sep. 2018 — May 2021 (co-supervised with Mike Newman).

  • Elaheh Shabani, VSR, April 2019 — June 2020. Project: On the Directed Oberwolfach Problem.

  • Andrew Wagner, Sep. 2013 — April 2019. Thesis: Eulerian Properties of Covering Hypergraphs and Designs.

  • Shonda Gosselin, Jan. 2006 — July 2009. Thesis: Self-Complementary Hypergraphs.

  • Andrea Burgess, Sept. 2005 — Dec. 2009. Thesis: Cycle and Closed Trail Decompositions of Complete Equipartite Graphs and Complete Multigraphs.

MSc Students (since 2016)

  • Marie Rose Jerade, RA, May 2020 — Dec. 2021. Project: The Honeymoon Oberwolfach Problem — a computational approach.

  • Masoomeh Akbari, Jan. 2019 — Sep. 2020. Thesis: Probabilistic Transitive Closure of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps — Algorithm Enhancement and an Application to Work-Integrated Learning.

  • Jiaye Chen, May 2019 — Jan. 2020 (co-supervised with Ioana Kratina). Thesis: Topological Sorting and Questionnaire Design.

Undergraduate Students (since 2016)

  • Jack Quirion, Honours Project, Jan. — Apr. 2025. Project: The Directed Oberwolfach Problem — Small Cases: a Computational Approach.

  • Suzan Kadri, RA, May 2024 — Aug 2024, Project: A Graph-theoretic Approach to Designing Statistical Questionnaires.

  • Suzan Kadri, RA, May 2023 — Aug 2023. Project: The Directed Oberwolfach Problem: Small Cases.

  • Rahul Atre, UROP, Jan. 2023 — April 2023. Project: The Separation-Reduction Algorithm for the Computation of Probabilistic Transitive Closure of Bipolar Weighted Digraphs.

  • Laura Maddison, Honour's Project, Sep. 2022 — Dec. 2022. Project: Study of Cycle Decompositions of Complete Equipartite

    Multigraphs via Amalgamation-Detachment.

  • Laura Maddison, RA, Co-op, Work-Study Program,  May 2020 — Aug. 2020. Project: The Mathematics of the Rainbow Ball Puzzle and Generalizations.

  • Marie Rose Jerade, Honour's Project, Jan. 2020 — May 2020. Project: The Honeymoon Oberwolfach Problem --- small cases.

  • Yan Steimle, RA, May 2017 — Aug. 2017. Project: Spanning Euler families in Hypergraphs with Certain Vertex Cuts.

  • Dene Lepine, RA, May 2017 — Aug. 2017. Project: Special Cases of the Honeymoon Oberwolfach Problem.

  • Yan Steimle, Honour's Project, Jan. 2017 — May 2017. Project: Spanning Euler families in Hypergraphs with Certain Vertex Cuts.

  • Dene Lepine, UROP, Oct. 2016 — March 2017. Project: The Honeymoon Oberwolfach Problem.

  • Iona Buchanan, RA, Sep. 2016 — Aug. 2017. Project: The Oberwolfach Problem: Special Cases of the Spouse-Loving Variant.

  • Noah Bolohan, RA and co-op, May 2016 — Aug. 2016. Project: The Oberwolfach Problem: The Spouse-Loving Variant.

  • Iona Buchanan, Undergraduate Research Award and Co-op Position, May 2016 — Aug. 2016. Project: The Oberwolfach Problem: The Spouse-Loving Variant.

  • Yan Steimle, NSERC USRA, May 2016 — Aug. 2016. Project: Eulerian Properties of Hypergraphs: Spanning Euler families.

  • Ryan Murray, Honour's Project, Feb. 2016 — May. 2016. Project: Constructing Certain Cycle Decompositions: A Computational Approach.

  • Nicholas Stamplecoskie, Honour's Project, Jan. 2016 — May. 2016. Project: Eulerian Properties of Hypergraphs: Open Trails.