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GRAID Awardees 2022

Below you will find an overview of all grantees awarded in 2022 under the Graduate Assistantships in Developing Countries program. 

Cameroon

One student was awarded a GRAID grant in the research group led by Principal Investigator, Gideon Ngwa (Buea University, Cameroon), with International Partner, Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem (Lehigh University, USA).

  • Nforba George-Didymus Yuhsinyu

As graduate assistants of the research group, their research focused on models of infectious diseases, mosquito dynamics and immunology. The team
is working on mathematical models with applications; including malaria, cholera, covid and human behavioural dynamics.

Ethiopia

One student was awarded a GRAID grant in the research group led by Principal Investigator, Abdu Mohammed Seid (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia), with International Partner, Lassi Roininen (LUT University, Finland).

  • Yassin Tesfaw Abebe

As graduate assistants of the research group, their research focused on inverse problems, uncertainty quantification and computational statistics with applications in traffic, meteorology and hydrology

India

One student was awarded a GRAID grant in the research group led by Principal Investigator, Sumit Kumar Debnath (National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India), with International Partner, Pantelimon Stǎnicǎ (Naval Postgraduate School, USA).

  • Vikas Srivastava

As graduate assistants of the research group, their research focused on post-quantum cryptography and quantum cryptography.

Madagascar

 

 
Dr Randrianirina Benjamin (PI), Baolahy Josaphat Wenceslas Vincent (GRAID Student), and François Bergeron (IP) (Left to Right)

 

One student was awarded a GRAID grant in the research group led by Principal Investigator, Benjamin Randrianirina (University of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar), with International Partner, François Bergeron (Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada).

  • Baolahy Josaphat

As graduate assistants of the research group, their research focused on combinatorics and their interaction to algebra. The IP and PI co-advised the PhD student, Baolahy Josaphat Wenceslas Vincent (GRAID-supported student) on the topics of “The categorification of the cycle index series”. They work on Algebraic Combinatorics and Representation theory. 

Pakistan

One student was awarded a GRAID grant in the research group led by Principal Investigator, Sarfraz Ahmad (COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan), with International Partner, Volkmar Welker (Phillipps University Marburg, Germany).

  • Muneeba Muhammad Mansha

As a graduate assistant of the research group, her research focused on combinatorial commutative algebra.