As an applied mathematician, my research is often very accessible to undergraduate students, and I am passionate about creating opportunities for undergraduate mathematics research.  If you are a student interested in learning more about my research program, please reach out!

  

Lafayette EXCEL Scholars:

  • Zoey Zou ’26 (Summer 2024 – Summer 2025)
  • Phuong Nam Vu ’25 (Summer 2022)
  • Anna Zittle ’22 (Summer 2021)
  • Yutian Huang ’22 (Summer 2020)

Honors Theses:

  • Zoey Zou ’26: “Assessing the impact of dam removal on water quality across multiple sites in a tributary of
    the Delaware River”
  • Anthony Abenante ’25: “Investigating the effect of pitch mixing on strikeout rates in NCAA Division 1 baseball”
  • Yutian Huang ’22: “Assessing the flexibility of deterministic tumor-immune ODE models for fitting stochastic synthetic data”
  • Anna Zittle ’22: “Analyzing the trade-offs between model complexity and parameter identifiability in math modeling of tumor dynamics”

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU):

  • Lafayette College REU: Grace Brophy, Audrey Rips-Goodwin, Lucy Wilson (Summer 2023)
  • St Mary’s College of Maryland REU: Kendall Clark, Mayleen Cortez, Cristian Hernandez, Beth Thomas (Summer 2018)

Student Publications in Undergraduate Journals:

  1. G. Brophy, A. Rips-Goodwin, L. Wilson, A.L. Lewis, “Using agent-based modeling to understand the impact of community interactions on voter apathy and election outcome“, The PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research, Vol. 8, pp. 286-321, 2025.
  2. P.N. Vu, A.L. Lewis, “Using dynamic active subspaces to construct surrogate models for calibrating tumor growth models to data“, The PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research, Vol. 6, pp. 1-28, 2023.
  3. Y. Huang, A.L. Lewis, “Predicting tumor response to radiotherapy based on estimation of non- treatment parameters”, Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics, Vol. 7, pp. 25-35, 2021.
  4. K.B. Clark, M. Cortez, C. Hernandez, B.E. Thomas, A.L. Lewis, “Combating tuberculosis: using time-dependent sensitivity analysis to develop strategies for treatment and prevention,” Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics, 5(1), pp. 14-23, 2019.