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Yue Chen
Dr. Yue Chen is Professor in the College of Computer Science at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. She consideres her six years of study at UConn to be one of the most important parts of her life.
After obtaining a Ph.D. degree with the supervision of Professors McKenna, Choi, and Tomastik in 1996, Ye went back home and found a job in the math department of Zhejiang University and continued her research on the nonlinear beam equation with NSFC (NSF of China) support for two years. In 1999 she transfered from the Mathematics Department to Computer Science and began working on another NSFC project in the area of 3D modeling. In 2004, she was voted by the students as one of the Top 10 teachers in Zhejiang University and has received awards from the department, the university, and the provincial government for dedicated teaching.
In 2002, she became the assistant dean of the newly established National Model College of Software Technology. In 2005, she became vice-dean.
She hopes friends from UConn who come to visit Hangzhou or Zhejiang University will drop by to visit.

Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen (1965) is an attorney in Los Angeles. He remembers professors Domina Spencer and the late Helen Roberts sharing an office in the Arjona building, as did most of our Storrs faculty before the move to Beach Hall and eventually to MSB.

Jacqueline (Madore) Corricelli
Jacqueline (Madore) Corricelli (BA, 2000) was married to David Corricelli in 2001. Upon graduation, she worked as a Radar Systems Engineer at Raytheon Corporation in Massachusetts. In August 2003, Jackie began working as an educator. Dave and Jackie were blessed with a daughter, Genevieve Cecile, born on May 28, 2008. In the 2009-2010 school year, Jackie was named Teacher of the Year for her district and she was a state semi-finalist for this award. She is currently teaching mathematics at Conard High School in West Hartford, Connecticut and loves it. She and her family reside in East Granby, Connecticut.

Benito Joel "Jojo" Cuevo, Jr.
Jojo (CFA, FSA) graduated with an M.S. in Mathematics in 1986 and served as a graduate teaching assistant and advisee under Chuck Vinsonhaler when he was the chair of the actuarial science program. He is Vice President, Insurance Portfolio Management, The Phoenix Companies.

William Duggan
William Duggan (Statistics PhD, 1999) is at Pfizer in southeastern Connecticut.

William Hesse
William Hesse (BA in MATH 1993) received his PhD from UMass in Computer Science in June 2003 (dissertation title: "Dynamic Computational Complexity"). Bill started his faculty career in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY in Fall 2003.

Niel Infante
Niel Infante (UConn Math MS, 1996) was senior systems programmer in the Plant Sciences Department at The University of Arizona. After leaving us, Niel earned Master's degrees in Computer Science from Wesleyan and The University of Pennsylvania. He is continuing his research studies, begun at Wesleyan, on the fundamental structure of rice, sorghum, and maize. Neil also played Ultimate Frisbie in the 2003 summer league in Tucson.

Peter Johnson
Peter Johnson (UConn Math/Stat BS, 1985; MS in Math, 1987) did actuarial work for the Hartford, taught at Colby-Sawyer College (New London, NH) for seven years, and earned a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction (Math Education) at Penn State. He has been on the faculty of Eastern Connecticut State University since 2001. Pete and his wife Kathleen have two young sons and reside in Eastford, Connecticut.
Peter's wife, Kathleen Healey, also got her Master's from UConn (in English, in 1988) and is also a Ph.D. from Penn State, in English, in 1995.

Matt Jordan
Matt Jordan earned a B.S. in 1967. He was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. After college and two years with in the army, hd worked for the The Harford Insurance as an accountant for 37 years. He writes: "It was really 'easy' math....Debits equal Credits. But I came up with a variation on that theorem... Debits equal Credits, and if they don't, PLUG the difference to a Suspense Account. Every accounting department has a group of people who do nothing but hunt and peck and search through suspense accounts to find out where that 'money' really belongs. I think the Business School should have a course devoted fully to Suspense Account accounting; what they are, why they are, how to 'fix' them, and how to control them. Math Connections had an article about the Master's Degree in Applied Financial Mathematics. Of my 37 years in accounting, 25 were in the Investment Accounting Department, and keeping up with the mathematics that operates behind the 'latest and greatest' investments, especially derivatives, that our Investment Department purchased was always a challenge, but one that brought a great deal of intellectual satisfaction." He retired from The Hartford on April Fools Day, 2007 and is enjoying retirement. His daughter graduated UConn in 2007 as a Music Ed major, where she was a member of the Marching Band for four years.

Michael Jury
Michael Jury (BS in MATH 1997) received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 (dissertation title: "Matrix products and interpolation problems in Hilbert function spaces"). He was a VIGRE post-doctoral fellow at Purdue and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Florida.

Jonathan Keiter
Jonathan Keiter is teaching at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. ESU is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.

Cliff Lange
Cliff joined Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company in Canton, MA as their Vice President, CFO & Chief Actuary in January 2007. He moved from Rochester, NY where he previously worked at Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield. He recently spoke at the University of Connecticut on February 2, 2010 about "Beyond the Numbers" encouraging students to develop the interpersonal side of their skill set to obtain an advantage in this competitive job market.

Brenda Jean (Degon) Leibowitz
Brenda Jean (Degon) Leibowitz (1992), FSA, MAAA was an Associate Actuary with The Hartford Life Insurance Companies in the Group Benefits Division for several years and is now a full-time mother.

Brenda is active in the financial side of various civic organizations in South Windsor, Connecticut, where she and her husband Neal M. Leibowitz (1991), FCAS, reside. They have two children. Hannah Grace was born in February of 2000 and Noah Mason was born in March of 2002.

Neal M. Leibowitz
Neal M. Leibowitz (FCAS) is Commercial Lines Actuarial-Director with The Hartford Insurance Group.

Neal and his wife Brenda Jean Leibowitz (FSA), formerly an actuary at The Hartford, live in South Windsor, ConnecticutT and have two children. Hannah Grace was born in February of 2000 and Noah Mason was born in March of 2002.

Thomas Leibowitz
Thomas Jacob Leibowitz is Director of Western Regions for Kaiser Foundation Health Plans in Oakland.

Robert T. Leo, Jr.
Robert T. Leo, Jr. (UConn Math BA, 1967) received his Master's in Mathematics from the University of Oregon in the summer of 1968. Bob resides in Manchester, Connecticut and is a Project Manager at IBM Global Services.

Robert Lumia
Robert Lumia (BS, 1991), who became an FSA in 2000, is a consulting actuary at Milliman USA in Windsor, Connecticut. Rob was kind enough to speak to some of our classes about issues of actuarial practice.

Robert Makuch
Robert Makuch (UConn Math BA, 1972) has gone on to have a distinguished career. He received a Master's from the University of Washington (1974), earned two advanced degrees in Biostatistics from Yale University (M. Phil. 1976, Ph.D. 1977), and worked in biometric research at the National Cancer Institute (1977-1986). Dr. Makuch, who is the author or co-author of close to 200 research articles and is a Professor and head of the Biostatistics Division at Yale, was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2003.

Raymond J. Marra
Raymond J. Marra, B.S. December 1981, Mathemathics/Actuarial Science, FSA - 1986, is Vice President at Aetna with responsiblities for group life, disability, long term care and dental actuarial functions. He joined Aetna in December 2002 after 14 years at Hartford Life and 8 years at Travelers.

He and his wife, Pam (Cronin), 1983 B.S. Finance, live in South Windsor. They have two children, Greg and Chris.

Richard Montgomery
Richard Montgomery addended UConn from 1965 to 1973, earning an M.S. in Mathematics in 1967 and a Ph.D in mathematics in 1973. He is currently retired from teaching mathematics at the Avery Point Campus of the University of Connecticut.

Michael Peter Nehring
Michael Peter Nehring, who earned a B.A. in Math in December 2004, along with a B.A. in German Studies, with a minor in Business, in December 2005, is now a doctoral student at North Carolina State University.

Dani Novak
Dani Novak graduated in 1981 with George Raney as his Ph.D. adviser. He is very grateful for the wonderful education he received and the close relationships he developed with George. Dani is teaching mathematics at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY). His focus is to bring the beautify of mathematics to liberal art students.

Jeffrey Oberlander
Jeffrey Oberlander (BS, 1988) is a CPA in Louisiana.

David Pinchbeck
David Pinchbeck (Mathematics PhD, 1996) is on the faculty of Saint Joseph's College in Standish, Maine.

Haja-Nirina Razafinjatovo
Haja-Nirina Razafinjatovo (PhD 1995, adviser Gröchenig) is a member of the cabinet in the government of the Malagasy Republic (on Madagascar), with the portfolio of " Ministre de Télécommunications, des Postes et de la Communication". His photograph appears with the rest of the cabinet on the Official Web site of the Malagasy Government/Site officiel du Gouvernement Malgache.

Bob Studley
Bob Studley graduated from UConn in 1994 with a BS in mathematics. He went back to Storrs in 1998 and received an MA in 1999 from the School of Education in Sport Management.
Bob has been teaching high school mathematics at St. Joseph High School in Trumbull, CT, since 1999. He teaches a wide variety of courses including geometry, algebra, pre-calculus and calculus and also serves as head coach of the baseball and boys' soccer teams.

Dr. Fred Torcaso
Dr. Fred Torcaso, who received a UConn Bachelor's in MATH/STAT in 1988, joined the faculty of Mathematical Sciences at John's Hopkins University in Fall 2002. Fred's PhD is from Maryland (1998), and he has research interests in several areas of probability theory.

Michael J. Tsatsomeros
Michael J. Tsatsomeros, a Ph.D. student of Miki Neumann's from 1986-1990, has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor at Washington State University in Pullman, WA.

Rebecca Tumicki
Rebecca Tumicki earned a B.S. in Math in 1985. She taught mathematics and art in Taif, Saudi Arabia for four years before leaving in August, 2007 to walk the Camino de Santiago and then volunteer in Ethiopia where there is a great need for teachers. She also acts as a college counselor encouraging students to apply to UConn.

James Walsh
James Walsh (UConn Math Bachelor's, 1980) served in Africa in the Peace Corps. Jim later earned his Ph.D. in dynamical systems from Boston University and has been on the faculty of Oberlin College for over a dozen years.

Todd Whitney
Todd Whitney (BA, 1984) is an actuary at Well Care HMO, Inc.

Matthew Wininger
Matt Wininger graduated Cum Laude from UConn's actuarial science program in 2000. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA).

Matt is a Manager with Deloitte Consulting LLP, principally doing consulting and auditing work for insurance companies across the Northeast US.

Previously, Matt was the valuation actuary and controller for The Hartford's Institutional Investment Products, which includes traditional payout annuities, structured settlements, guaranteed investment contracts and other institutional debt products. He was a member of the committee of actuaries that manages the Hartford's actuarial student program and leads the exerienced-level actuarial recruiting.

Matt and his wife Amy and miniature poodle Garcon live in Windsor, Connecticut.

Michael Wininger
Michael Wininger graduated UConn in 2003 with a dual degree (B.A. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Physics). He first worked for Adidas in Oregon in their engineering department. He then went to the University of Rutgers and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering studying regenerative biomaterials and spinal cord injury repair. In the summer of 2007, Mike was in Taipei, Taiwan as a research fellow under the auspices of the National Science Foundation at the National Taiwan University Medical College, where he will be studying embryological and human embryonic stem cell engineering. Mike has already co-authored a paper submitted to Gait & Posture entitled "Force Myography in Gait Analysis".

Shiqin Xia
Shiqin Xia earned Ph.D. in 1998 (Koltracht). He works for Quantitative Financial Strategies.