CELEBRATING THE CLASS OF 2022 - Celebrating the Math Department Graduates Join us in celebrating the achievements of the Class of 2022.

CELEBRATING THE
CLASS OF 2022
Sunday, June 12th, 2022   Celebrating the Math
9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.    Department Graduates
                          Join us in celebrating the achievements of
                          the Class of 2022.
Court of Sciences

A Letter to the
                                       Class of 2022
                                      CHANDRASHEKHAR KHARE
                                      Ph.D. Caltech
                                      Research Interests: Galois Representations

Congratulations, Class of 2022! Take a moment and savor the hard work you put into
making it through one of the most challenging math programs in the country. It is a
privilege to be a part of a department with some of the most talented and brilliant
students UCLA has seen.

The UCLA Mathematics Department is currently ranked 11th worldwide. This was made
possible with the academic excellence and the research achievement of our faculty and
students. Take a moment to acknowledge that. You are graduating from one of the top
math programs worldwide. Every theorem you learned and every equation you solved
was worth it in the end. We hope you are proud of yourself.

Graduation isn’t the end of the journey. It is the beginning of a new chapter.

The possibilities are never-ending when it comes to math. No matter what road you
decide to take, we know each and every one will go above and beyond. Equipped with
your mathematical skills and perseverance, you will make lasting impacts where ever
you go.

Take your time celebrating, then get ready to take on the world!

Congratulations once again, Class of 2022!

2022 Commencement
Speaker
ROBERT HARRISON
UCLA Math Alumnus
MBA Cornell University
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of
First Hawaiian Bank

Bob Harrison, the Chairman, President, and
Chief Executive Officer of First Hawaiian, has
been the Chief Executive Officer of First
Hawaiian Bank since January 2012, was
reappointed the President in August 2019, and
has been the Chairman of the bank’s board of
directors since May 2014.

A 26-year veteran of the company, joining First
Hawaiian Bank in 1996, he has over 30 years of financial industry experience working
for banks in New York and in Hawaii.

He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Hawaii Bankers
Association, Hawaii Business Roundtable, Hawaii Community Foundation, Pacific
Guardian Life, and is Chairman of Hawaii Medical Service Association (the Hawaii
licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association).

He served in the U.S. Navy before earning a bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics
from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from Cornell University in
New York.

Class of 2022
UNDERGRADUATE                  Yin Ue Tianna (Yin Ue) Chan   Melina Celia Diaz
                               Alan Yaolong Chang            Ruining Ding
DEGREES                        Yu Chen Chang                 David S Dinklage
BACHELORS OF                   Andrew Yi Chao                Alessandro Vincenzo Dipalma
SCIENCE                        Enzo Nicholas Chavarria       Jason Dean Cosme Dizon
                               Andy (Andrew) Chen            Huu Phuoc Do
Jana Baltagi Aazami            Xiangcheng Chen               Ariel Dominguez Palma
Omar Abdul-Aziz Afifi          Bojun Chen                    Reiya Downs
Shreesh Agarwal                Dian Chen                     Cara Burridge Drake
Vince (Wensi) Ai               Nuo Chen                      Wei Du
Moisey Alaev                   Ailong Chen                   Haonan Duan
Ambar Nisa Alim                Daphne Chen                   Nathan Mariel Dulac
Mercedes Maria Allende         Zifeng Chen                   Ethan Duong
Jacob Allins                   Kyle Robert Michael Chen      Connor Drake Eades
Jorge Iii Alvarez              Yanming Chen                  Angela Madison East
Micaela Anne Anderson          Nuo Chen                      Kiara Caridad Edgel
Celine Margareth Anwar         Tim (Sheng) Chen              Marco Rivera Edwards
Mihir Arya                     Yida Chen                     Sahire Ellahy
Laila Rain Atkins              Zhe Chen                      Ian Joseph Eschenberg
Melvina Avasapian              Jia Chen                      Julian Talmor Eshkol
Jessica Ayala                  Kelly Sy-Hua Chen             Matthew Esmaili Mallory
Maricarmen Ayala               Lang Chen                     Christopher John Estrella
Nayiri Ayvazian                Calvin Chen                   Yixing Fan
Raymond Bai                    Yupeng Chen                   Matthew Fan
Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Bakhiet   Lu Cheng                      Kyle Noah Fang
Corbin Keegan Domine           Oi Ting Cheung                Victor Hao Fang
Balitactac                     Jesse Chien                   Zhourui Feng
Rohan Bansal                   Rehan Bilal Chinoy            John Henry Field
Maria Fernanda Barajas         Casey Mona Choe               Ariel Celeste Fitzmorris
Ojas Bardiya                   Kay (Kun Jin) Choi            Peter Frank Flanders
Colby James Baucom             Seng Chow Choy                Wai On Fong
Efrain Becerra                 Rebecca Yingyu Chua           Stephanie Foo
Shijie Bian                    Seung Woo Chung               Jordan Alexander Forster
Emir Izat Bin Abdul Rashid     Richard Jaeyoung Chung        Andrew Stephen Forsyth
Brandon Javier Bocanegra       Dallas R Cire                 Elliot Taylor Fouts
Ciprian Mircea Bonciocat       Warren R Coons                Jenel Fraij
Rhiannon Mary Bosch            Duncan Alexander Croll        Justine (Justin) French
Jake Sheppard Boyd             Hunter Clay Crosland          Evan Moshe Friedman
Brandon Howard Brill           Kaijun Cui                    Danning Fu
Shriniket Sanket Buche         Xinyue Cui                    Sam (Ching Yan) Fung
Wenxin Cai                     Anna Sophia Cusenza           Siegbert Charles Galam
Zefeng Cai                     Aric Jeffrey Cutuli           Felix (Chen Ye) Gan
Xuli Cao                       Alexander Moses Dade          Wa Gao
William Xichang Cao            Katia Alyssa Dahmani          Longyuan Gao
Jesse Mario Cardona            Siting Dai                    Xuefan Gao
Asa Hamill Carey               Marwa Ahmad Daouk             John Garcia
Olivia Carrillo                Jamie Lynn Davis              Darren Kumar Gerchick
Grant Joseph Carroll           Hari Narayan Deevi            Ryeder J Geyer
Brenda Castillo                Marcus Anthony Del Prete      Michelle Ghazarian
Prince Valdez Castro           Qing Deng                     Sahaj Singh Gill
Benjamin Laurence Catalfo      Rui Deng                      Claire Hanley Stieff Glendening
Sameer Kohli Chadha            Max Derensteyn                Aarya Robin Goenka

Joshua Jacob Goldberg          Ajeet Hayden Singh Johal       Connie Li
Yiru Gong                      Tanner R Johnston              Haoping Li
Spencer Dean Griffith          Katrina Jo Jolly               Mingxin Li
Chen Guan                      Noah Michael Jones             Pengyu Li
Joshua Stephen Gunawan         Jessica Diana Jordan           Ruide Li
Yuchen Guo                     Ailin Ju                       Tony Xianyang Li
Violet (Bingcui) Guo           Zachary Floyd Judson           Weihan Li
Arsh Gupta                     Bryan Julian                   Yifei Li
Haining Han                    Saamarth Juneja                Chenghan Li
Wenxuan Han                    Rajiv Krishna Kaipa            Rui Qi Li
Meray Hannoun                  Kai Kang                       Qifeng Li
Young (Jiayang) He             Ameer Haider Kazmi             Gordon (Yik) Li
Yuyan He                       Kushay Kejriwal                Jun Jie Li
Jane Rose Herlihy              Manasi Kenkere                 Mingxin Li
William Herlim                 Sina Alexander Keramat         Nan Li
Daniel Christopher Hernandez   Benjamin Taylor Khothsombath   Aiden (Chengru) Li
Yoshihiko Hirai                Joseph Anthony Kiger           Fangru Li
Kieudiem Thuy Ho               Hyunjun Kim                    Jiaqi Li
Duc Minh Hoang                 Yeni Kim                       Leslie (Genghuan) Li
Justin Lee Hogarth             Stephen Sunho Kim              Tianlong Li
Difang Hou                     Grant Phong Kinsley            Xinyu Li
Po-En Hou                      Wesley Ko                      Xiuying Li
Leslie (Ching-Chieh) Hsiao     Fuyuki Kobayashi               Zhijian Li
Pei-Hsun Hsu                   Rohith Kalyan Kodukula         Haoyang Li
Chengwei Hu                    Vicky Xiaotong Kong            Jonathan Li
Gavin (Kwan) Hu                Roman C Kouznetsov             Junxi Li
Jason Joseph Hu                Winona Clare Kraus             Henry (Han Wen) Liang
Chelsea (Yang) Hua             Mansa Krishna                  Cassie (Yahui) Liang
Gary Lei Hua                   Travis E Kulhanek              Luyi Liang
Lexa (Sixian) Huang            Prerana Jagadish Kulkarni      Leting Liang
William Huang Huang            Naoya Kumagai                  Tze Sean Lim
Jiahao Huang                   Manu Mangalampalli Kumar       Yinfeng Lin
Philip (Philip) Huang          Ritwik Kumar                   Justin Austin Lin
Kaiyuan Huang                  Sofia Kurian                   Yun-Gu Kevin Lin
Yuhan Huang                    William Tran Kwoon             Sideny Lin
Yangzhi Huang                  Matthew Junheong Kymn          Eric (Zhengtong) Liu
Christy Yang Hui               Jie (Jacinda) La               Minhao Liu
Alan Winston Humphreys         Jeannie Lai                    Siqi Liu
Jun Hur                        Natalie Olivia Larowe          Jiamu Liu
Yun Do Hwang                   Thomas Christopher Latkowski   Yuhan Liu
Kyle Drake Gonzaga Icban       William Ian Lawrence           Liru Liu
Gabiella Rhlanna Ignacio       Zong-Zhen Lee                  Zhaoyi Liu
Rajeshwari Vijay Jadhav        Kyungmin Lee                   Yunpu Liu
Maham Jamil                    Anna Huisun Lee                Sofia Ernestina Llaneta
Dylan Jamner                   William Charles Legg           Jasmine Lani Loforte
Skyler Javier                  Ethan James Legro              Yunze Long
Christopher Luke Jawetz        Joanna Lei                     Blanca Sarahi Lopez Perez
Emily Golda Zi-Li Jenks        Kelly (Jiahui) Lei             Jeremy Seth Louie
Linqiao Jiang                  William Xiao Lennox            Jiayu Lu
Senyang Jiang                  Kyle Elika Leuteneker          Hector Lugo Barrios
Wenjun Jiang                   Daniel Levan                   Jia Luo
Hao Jin                        Chenfei Li                     Ziqing Luo

Mia (Man) Luo                Kinson Poon                     Alexander Shih
Matthew Hiroshi Maemura      Petra Portabella Jarosilova     Kriti Shukla
Asmita Roy Majumder          Malayvardhan Nirav Prajapati    Angel Leopoldo Simon
Alberto Carlos Mancia        Zachary Qian                    Vineeta Singh
Vanessa Marin                Louis (Yilong) Qin              Ananya Sini Achan
Nandini Manish Marolia       Cristian Nathan Quijada         Varun Sivashankar
Eva Gabrielle Pando Mars     Srikanth Raguraman              Eric L Skrabak
Brandon Alexander Martinez   Alejandro Ramirez               Isha Veda Slavin
Caden Nansae Mcquillen       Gabriel Eduardo Ramirez         Billy Hartanto Soekamto
Daniel Jesus Medina Garate   Akhil Rastogi                   Huanming Song
Jacob Anwar Mejia            Alessandro Rastrelli            Felix Su
Jiayun Meng                  Nitya Ravi                      Yuetian Sun
Gevorg Meseldzhyan           Anna Insun Reed                 Subash Sundar Raman
Maya Mckinley Metro          Lance Jairo Remigio             Vishal Anand Sundaram
Ke Mi                        Jaya (Jiaoying) Ren             Karthik Suresh
Saman Moogahi                Joan Enrique Reyes              Maryam Taat
Lebogang Alice Mooketsi      Spencer P Richard               Yasmine Khadija Talby
Narbeh Mouradian             Joy Eunji Richardson            Sofia Nicole Tam
Yasmin Sussette Munoz        Nour Bringer Rifai              Peixiang Tan
Zach (Zachariah) Mustafa     Jessica Marie Rodriguez         Renzo Alexander Tanaka-Wong
Nosung Myung                 Liliana Daniela Rodriguez       Kartik Tandon
Dhanush Madhav Nadella       Rob (Robert) Ronayne            Amy Qiao Tang
Shin Naganuma                Jose Daniel Rosales             Shania Tantyo
Kaushik Naresh               Dan Rosen                       Tianliang Tao
Rahul Natarajan              Tachin Ruangkriengsin           Derek Hung Thai
Andrew Thomas Negus          Advika Ruia                     Saksham Thakur
Rohit Nema                   Jieun Ryu                       Sibhinandan Thirumal Kumaran
Gilbert Paul Neuner          Esther Young Ryu                Leo (Li-Jen) Tien
Thai Nhu Anh Nguyen          Karina Clementine Santoso       James Daniel Tinajero
Jaden (Dinh Quan) Nguyen     Nicola Gabrielle Sassone        Michael Paul Ting
Zooey Nhu-Quynh Nguyen       Thomas Joseph Schilder          Thien Tam Tran
Kenny Ni                     Alexandra Miriam Schtein        Calvin Tuan Tran
Giorgia Elena Nicolaou       William Malcolm Scott-Curtis    Dominic Tran
Severin Mats Nilsson         Mason Ray Seden-Hansen          Natalie Thanh Hang Trinh
Aaron (Chan Min) Noah        Nikil Roashan Selvam            Darren Tsang
Oluchi Jessica Nzerem        Andrew Huang Senkowski          Christine Tseng
Danira Ortega                Hari Krishna Senthilkumar       Shren (Kuo-Hsuan) Tseng
Tanushree Ria Pal            Ronak S Shah                    Chloe Criselle Go Uy
Bryce W Palmer-Toy           Krishna Jeetendra Shahdadpuri   Aagam Jigar Vakharia
Zhengkun Pan                 Saba Sharfuddin                 Ashwin Kumar Vasan
Minghao Pan                  Zayan Shariff                   Mario Alberto Velazquez
Yichen Pan                   Aidan H Sharma                  Abhijith Vemulapati
Gregory John Tucker Pappas   Cassie (Youlan) Shen            Joshua Leo Vendrow
Eliska Patockova             Joanna (Jiaai) Shen             Pedro Henrique Vilela Aguiar
Matthew David Paull          Fischer Benjamin Sherrod        Erick Cesar Villalta
Sophie Isabel Yarui Paven    Jonathan Darian Shi             Anastasia Voit
Chuwei Peng                  Qing Shi                        Duc (Tuan) Vu
Kevin J Peng                 Ruizhe Shi                      Joseph Ahmad Wallace
Zhipeng Peng                 Samuel (Lecheng) Shi            Yixin Wan
Lien Kim Pham                Zhan Shi                        Yujie Wan
Bryan Long Pham              Kangbo Shi                      Eric Zhexuan Wang
Kefan Ping                   Zhaoyuan Shi                    Kunning Wang

Miao Wang               Sebastian Hong Hui Yap    Louis Zhao-Ze-Xi Zhao
Ruobei Wang             Jianping Ye               Frank Zheng
Shaoyang Wang           Weixin Ye                 Jiaxin Zheng
Shurui Wang             Nishanth Reddy Yeddula    Monica (Yaxuan) Zheng
Sienna (Shixian) Wang   Justin Lucian Yee         Qiyao Zheng
Xuheng Wang             Yu-Wei Vincent Yeh        Dylan Zheng
Qianhui Wang            Oscar Julian Yen          Haoran Zhi
Xingchen Wang           Svetlana Yenokyan         Shend Zhjeqi
Yitong Wang             Matthew Chang Yoshida     Kelly (Ziqi) Zhou
Ziqi Wang               Yifan You                 Lily Huixian Zhou
Jiahe Wang              Ye Rin You                Weiyan Zhou
Mingway Wang            Weiyi You                 Sicheng Zhou
Bixuan Wang             Joshua Y Young            Zerui Zhou
Chengyi Wang            Sean Jordan Young         Charles (Chengjie) Zhou
Dingxuan Wang           Yitong Yu                 Shenghua Zhu
Matthew Xuehan Wang     Jiale Yu                  Kaiqi Zhu
Ruixiao Wang            Tao Yu                    Tesla (Hongyu) Zhu
Wiliando Wangsa         Alvin G Yu                Steve (Ruihua) Zhu
Austyn Tyler Ward       David Dalton Yu           Yujia Zhu
William (Linyun) Wei    Xinyi Yu                  Hanlin Zhu
Robert Jesse Weisz      Emery (Hanyang) Yu        Zhangyu Zhu
Sian Wen                Saite Yuan                Rachel Elizabeth Ziffer
Kevin Weng              Ngai Kan Yung             Chuanting Zong
Niina Cheng Werronen    Kalia Leilani Zamora      Peisong Zou
James Mattison West     Simone Zamparini          Brendan Joseph Zytowski
Daniel Robert Wilborn   Nathaniel Zbaida
Jessica Bee Win         Jenny (Yaqi) Zhan
Franklyn Winston        Haoyu Zhang
Abigail Taylor Wong     Jeffrey Zhang
                                                  GRADUATE
Shinghei Wong           Jingxuan Zhang            DEGREES
Timmy Ling Wong         Xuanhao Zhang             DOCTOR OF
Peng Wu                 Yuchen Zhang              PHILOSOPHY
Siu Kin Wu              Yuelong Zhang
Tyler Daqian Wu         Zhihao Zhang              Joseph John Breen
Xinyu Wu                Ziwei Zhang               Christian Daniel Carrick
Qi Xiao                 Ziyang Zhang              Yonatan Dukler
Kaize Xie               Charlie (Chengbo) Zhang   Casey Luo Fu
Peifeng Xie             Leonard (Gaobo) Zhang     Steven William Gagniere
Xunzi Xie               Wenqing Zhang             Kyung Ha
Peixuan Xie             Cindy Zhang               Harris (Mohammed) Khan
Michael (Mingzhe) Xu    Jacob Broadwin Zhang      Wonjun Lee
                                                  Siting Liu
Zhitian Xu              Jingshun Zhang
                                                  Jean-Michel Maldague
Chuting Xu              Jintao Zhang
                                                  Alex Jacob Mennen
Cao Xu                  Qianhan Zhang             Kevin Scott Miller
Wenxin Xu               Xindan Zhang              Kaiyan Peng
Jiaxuan Xue             Er Zhao                   Andrew David Smith
Yuchuan Yang            Liqi Zhao                 Matthew Ian Stone
Wenhan Yang             Xiaoxiang Zhao            Riley Thornton
Xiao Yang               Crystal (Tao) Zhao        Francis White
Zi Xi Yang              Yuxuan Zhao
Yuqing Yao              Bryan Yuan Song Zhao
Yuchen Yao              Bowen Zhao