Dr Bento Natura
Supervisors: Professor László Végh
Thesis title: Exact Linear Programming: Circuits, Curvature, and Diameter
Date of award: September 2022
Dr Eng Keat Hng
Supervisors: Professor Julia Böttcher and Professor Peter Allen
Thesis title: Embedding problems in graphs and hypergraphs
Date of award: April 2022
Dr Attila Dankovics
Supervisors: Professor Jozef Skokan and Professor Julia Böttcher
Thesis title: Extremal problems in graph theory and a hypergraph packing problem
Date of award: January 2022
Dr Edin Husić
Supervisors: Professor László Végh and Professor Gregory Sorkin
Thesis title: Nash welfare, valuated matroids, and gross substitutes
Date of award: December 2021
Dr Yang Guo
Supervisors: Professor Mihail Zervos and Dr Christoph Czichowsky
Thesis title: A class of two-dimensional strong Markov processes and a continuous-time principal-agent problem with costly renegotiation
Date of award: June 2021
Dr Weiguan Wang
Supervisors: Professor Johannes Ruf and Dr Arne Lokka
Thesis title: Statistical Hedging with Neural Networks
Date of award: May 2021
Stanislav Kučera (MPhil)
Supervisors: Professor Jan van den Heuvel
Thesis title: Two problems in graph theory
Date of award: December 2020
Dr Nόra Frankl
Supervisors: Professor Konrad Swanepoel and Professor Jozef Skokan
Thesis title: On some problems in combinatorial geometry
Date of award: October 2020
Dr Jan Corsten
Supervisors: Professor Julia Böttcher and Professor Jozef Skokan
Thesis title: Extremal graph colouring and tiling problems
Date of award: July 2020
Dr Denis Schelling
Supervisors: Dr Christoph Czichowsky and Dr Albina Danilova
Thesis title: Rough volatility and portfolio optimisation under small transaction costs
Date of award: December 2019
Dr Aaron Lin
Supervisor: Professor Konrad Swanepoel
Thesis title: Structure theorems and extremal problems in incidence geometry
Date of award: December 2019
Dr Nicola Wittur
Supervisors: Professor Olivier Gossner and Dr Ron Peretz
Thesis title: Optimal use of communication resources with Markovian payoff function
Date of award: March 2019
Dr Michael Kusnetsov
Supervisor: Professor Luitgard Veraart
Thesis title: Clearing models for systemic risk assessment in interbank networks
Date of award: October 2018
Dr Jose Pasos
Supervisor: Professor Michalis Zervos
Thesis title: Mean-variance optimal portfolios for Lévy processes and a singular Stochastic control model for capacity
Date of award: August 2018
Dr Thomas Bernhardt
Supervisor: Professor Michalis Zervos
Thesis title: Reflected diffusions and piecewise diffusion approximations of Levy processes
Date of award: January 2018
Dr Daniel Quiroz
Supervisor: Professor Jan van den Heuvel
Thesis title: Chromatic and structural properties of Sparse graph classes
Date of award: October 2017
Dr Ewan Davies
Supervisors: Professor Jozef Skokan and Dr Peter Allen
Thesis title: Extremal and probabilistic results for regular graphs
Date of award: October 2017
Dr Barnaby Roberts
Supervisors: Dr Peter Allen and Professor Jozef Skokan
Thesis title: Structure and randomness in external combinatorics
Date of award: September 2017
Dr Matthew Jenssen
Supervisors: Professor Jozef Skokan and Dr Julia Böttcher
Thesis title: Continuous optimisation in extremal combinatorics
Date of award: July 2017
Dr Junwei Xu
Supervisors: Dr Arne Lokka and Professor Michalis Zervos
Thesis title: Topics in Optimal Liquidation and Contract Theory
Date of award: July 2017
Dr Pongphat Taptagaporn
Supervisor: Dr Tugkan Batu
Thesis title: Algorithmic learning from financial predictions
Date of award: April 2017
Dr Tom Bates
Supervisor: Professor Michalis Zervos
Thesis title: Topics in stochastic control with applications to algorithmic trading
Date of award: February 2017
Dr Ahmad Abu-Khazneh
Supervisor: Professor Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Matchings and covers of multipartite hypergraphs
Date of award: July 2016
Dr Steffen Issleib
Supervisor: Professor Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: Equity and Power in a Cooperative Trial-and-Error Game
Date of award: July 2016
Marta Casetti (MPhil)
Supervisor: Professor Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Complexity of the Gale String Problem for Equilibrium Computation in Games
Date of award: January 2016
Dr Mathieu Dubois
Supervisor: Dr Luitgard Veraart
Thesis title: Topics in Portfolio Optimisation and Systemic Risk
Date of award: December 2015
Dr Chlump Chatkupt
Supervisors: Professor Bernhard von Stengel and Professor Luc Bovens (Department of Philosophy)
Thesis title: Least-Squares Regret and Partially Strategic Players
Date of award: December 2015
Dr Yavor Stoev
Supervisors: Dr Pavel Gapeev and Dr Albina Danilova
Thesis title: Stochastic Modelling and Equilibrium in Mathematical Finance and Statistical Sequential Analysis
Date of award: July 2015
Dr Pucheng Shi
Supervisors: Dr Albina Danilova and Professor Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: Study of New Models for Insider Trading and Impulse Control
Date of award: June 2015
Dr Alexey Pokrovskiy
Supervisors: Professor Jan van den Heuvel and Professor Jozef Skokan
Thesis title: Graph Powers, Partitioning and Other Extremal Problems
Date of award: November 2013
Dr David Ferguson
Supervisors: Professor Jan van den Heuvel and Professor Jozef Skokan
Thesis title: Topics in Graph Colouring and Graph Structures
Date of award: September 2013
Dr Neofytos Rodosthenous
Supervisors: Professor Mihail Zervos and Dr Pavel Gapeev
Thesis title: Optimal Stopping Problems in Mathematical Finance
Date of award: July 2013
Dr Tom Lidbetter
Supervisors: Professor Bernhard von Stengel and Professor Steve Alpern
Thesis title: Hide-and-Seek and Other Search Games
Date of award: June 2013
Dr Somkiat Trakultraipruk
Supervisor: Professor Jan van den Heuvel
Thesis title: Connectivity Problems of Some Transformation Graphs
Date of award: May 2013
Dr Derek Wan
Supervisor: Professor Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: Supermarket Model with Memory
Date of award: March 2013
Dr Julian Merschen
Supervisor: Professor Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Nash Equilibria, Gale Strings, and Signed Perfect Matchings
Date of award: March 2012
Dr Polly Lon
Supervisor: Professor Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: Two Explicitly Solvable Problems with Discretionary Stopping
Date of award: March 2012
Dr Hessah Al-Motairi
Supervisor: Professor Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: Models for Investment Capacity
Date of award: March 2012
Dr Raju Chinthalapati
Supervisor: Professor Martin Anthony
Thesis title: Probabilistic Learning and Optimization Applied to Quantitative Finance
Date of award: September 2011
Dr Ovidiu Precup
Supervisor: Professor Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: New Methods for Measuring Correlation and Modelling Asset Price Dynamics
Date of award: August 2011
Dr Dimitris Melas
Supervisor: Professor Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: Optimal Investment Decisions in Static and Dynamic Environments
Date of award: July 2011
Dr Marianne Fairthorne
Supervisor: Professor Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: The Supermarket Model with System-Size Dependent Parameters
Date of award: June 2011
Dr Benjamin Veal
Supervisor: Professor Martin Anthony
Thesis title: Binary Similarity Measures and Their Applications in Machine Learning
Date of award: May 2011
Dr Fares Al-Azemi
Supervisor: Professor Mihail Zervos
Thesis title: A Pair of Explicitly Solvable Impulse Control Problems
Date of award: March 2011
Dr Wan Huang
Supervisor: Professor Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Equilibrium Computation for Extensive Games
Date of award: January 2011
Dr Xibo Zu
Supervisors: Dr Robert Simon and Professor Adam Ostaszewski
Thesis title: A Stochastic Ramsey Theorem
Date of award: December 2010
Dr Anne Balthasar
Supervisor: Professor Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Geometry and Equilibria in Bimatrix Games
Date of award: January 2010
Dr Viresh Patel
Supervisors: Professor Graham Brightwell and Professor Jan van den Heuvel
Thesis title: Partitions of Combinatorial Structures
Date of award: May 2009
Dr Ioanna Katrantzi
Supervisor: Professor Steve Alpern
Thesis title: Equilibria of Decentralized Matching Games
Date of award: November 2008
Dr Peter Allen
Supervisor: Professor Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: Finding Combinatorial Structures
Date of award: August 2008
Dr Luis Cereceda
Supervisor: Professor Jan van den Heuvel
Thesis title: Mixing Graph Colourings
Date of award: June 2008
Dr Snezana Pejic
Supervisor: Professor Jan van den Heuvel
Thesis title: Algebraic Graph Theory in the Analysis of Frequency Assignment Problems
Date of award: April 2008
Dr Rahul Savani
Supervisor: Professor Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: Finding Nash equilibria of Bimatrix games
Date of award: June 2006
Dr Nicholas Georgiou
Supervisor: Professor Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: Random structures for Partially Ordered Sets
Date of award: May 2006
Dr Arndt von Schemde
Supervisor: Professor Bernhard von Stengel
Thesis title: A Geometric-Combinatorial Approach to Index and Stability in Bimatrix Games
Date of award: December 2004
Dr Philipp Reinfeld
Supervisor: Professor Norman Biggs
Thesis title: Algebraic Methods for Chromatic Polynomials
Date of award: February 2003
George Croft (MPhil)
Supervisor: Professor Norman Biggs
Thesis title: Dynamic Models of Exchange Rates
Date of award: December 2001
Dr Wei Shi Lim
Supervisor: Professor Steve Alpern
Thesis title: Problems in Rendezvous Search
Date of award: July 1996
Dr George Russell
Supervisor: Professor Norman Biggs
Thesis title: Spectral Properties Of Graphs Derived From Groups
Date of award: 1995
Dr Sarah Goodall
Supervisor: Professor Graham Brightwell
Thesis title: Problems In Combinatorics: Paths in Graphs, Partial Orders of Fixed Width
Date of award: 1995