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GRAID Awardees 2024

Below you will find an overview of all grantees awarded in 2024 under the Graduate Assistantships in Developing Countries program. 

Cameroon

One student was awarded a GRAID grant in the research group led by Principal Investigator, Gabriel Deugoue (University of Pretoria, Cameroon), with International Partner, Theodore Tachim (Florida International University, USA).

  • Bill Nicodeme Donna (Ph.D.)

As a graduate assistant of the research group, his research focused on dynamic programming approach for 2D nonlocal two phase flow.

Nepal

One student was awarded a GRAID grant in the research group led by Principal Investigator, Jivandhar Jnawali (Tribhuvan University, Nepal), with International Partner, Naveeen Vaidya (San Diego State University, USA).

  • Anup Tuladhar (Ph.D.)

As a graduate assistant of the research group, his research focused on mathematical models for infectious diseases.

Nigeria

One student was awarded a GRAID grant in the research group led by Principal Investigator, Chinwendu Madubueze (Joseph Sarwuan Tarkaa University, Nigeria), with International Partner, Faraimunashe Chirove (University of Johannesburg, South Africa).

  • Agatha Abokwara (Ph.D.)

As a graduate assistant of the research group, his research focused on mathematical epidemiology, specifically on modelling the co-infection of schistosomiasis and lymphatic filariasis disease

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).

  • Areeba Maqbool (Ph.D.)

As a graduate assistant of the research group, her research focused on combinatorial properties of graphs and lattices and algebraic invariants of monomial ideals.


Two students were awarded a GRAID grant in the research group led by Principal Investigator, Imran Anwar (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan), with International Partner, Peter Stevehagan (Leiden University, Netherlands).

  • Aqsa Noreen (Ph.D.)
  • Mughees Ghayas (Ph.D.)

As a graduate assistants of the research group, their research focused on problems in combinatorial commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory.

Philippines

One student was awarded a GRAID grant in the research group led by Principal Investigator, Paul Samuel P. Ignacio (University of the Philippines Baguio, Philippines), with International Partner, David Uminsky (University of Chicago, USA).

  • Jhunas Paul T. Viernes (Ph.D.)

As a graduate assistant of the research group, his research focused on topological data analysis.