Dr. Malbor Asllani

Malbor Asllani Assistant Professor, Florida State University

• (2015) Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Insubria (Italy)
• (2011) MSc in Mathematical Engineering, University of Florence (Italy)

Astrit Tola

Astrit Tola holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Dallas, where he also earned an MS in Mathematics with a specialization in Data Science. His research lies at the intersection of Graph Neural Networks, Topological Data Analysis, and Machine Learning, with practical applications in link prediction and drug discovery. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and preprint servers, with recent contributions focusing on topological embeddings and graph representation learning. Astrit completed his BS in Mathematics with honors at Middle East Technical University. Alongside his research, he has served as a teaching and research assistant, and is passionate about bridging theoretical mathematics with impactful data-driven solutions. More information can be found at astrittola.github.io.

Haoyang Qian

Hello, my name is Haoyang Qian, and I’m from China. My current research focuses on spectral modularity and non-normal networks in the context of spreading dynamics models. Besides academic research, I also enjoy traveling and baking. I’m thoroughly enjoying every moment of my life at Florida State University.

Austin Orgeron

I am a Biomathematics PhD candidate researching diffusive processes on networks and how these ideas extend to applications such as neuroscience. Incidences of cluster synchronization/desynchronization and chimera states have been examined as key regulatory components that can lead to the pathogenesis of a number of brain diseases, and I am interested in finding out more about these processes.

Callie Reid

Hello, my name is Callie Reid, and I am a Biomathematics graduate student at Florida State University. My research interests currently focus on random walk Laplacians and their applications to understanding network structure and dynamics. Outside of academics, I enjoy drinking coffee and taking spin classes.

Afolabi Ariwayo

Afolabi Ariwayo is a Biomathematics graduate student at Florida State University studying how diseases spread across networks and how interventions—like vaccination, testing, isolation, and travel moderation—can be designed using these dynamics. His research focuses on how community transmission and mobility interact, and how heterogeneity affects outbreak thresholds, persistence, and fadeout, with the goal of finding strategies that minimize social and economic costs.

Toma Debnath

I am Toma Debnath, a second-year Ph.D. student in biomathematics at Florida State University. I am originally from Bangladesh. My current research focuses on the dynamics of chimera states, which are fascinating patterns where synchronized and desynchronized behaviors coexist in complex systems. I am particularly interested in understanding their emergence and stability through mathematical modeling and analysis.

Shiyi (Scarlett) Lyu

Hi, my name is Shiyi (Scarlett) Lyu, and I am a Biomathematics graduate student at Florida State University. My research interests currently is math modeling of neuroscience and neuro network, related to mental health issue hopefully. For the life with no math, I’ve learned crochet, baking and planting (although non of them survive, besides a lemon tree which was not planted by me).

Bram A. Siebert

2018-2022
Bram graduated in 2022 with a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Limerick, Ireland, where his thesis focused on self-organization dynamics and nonlinear random walks. He is currently employed as a data scientist at One Fox in the Netherlands.