Adriana Ortiz-Aquino
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
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Olin Hall 214
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509-527-5391
Professor Ortiz joined the Mathematics Department at Whitman College in the Fall of 2024. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico where she also did her undergraduate degree in Mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She recently graduated with her PhD in Mathematics from Kansas State University. Her PhD research was in graph theory and optimization, but she is also interested in machine learning, deep learning, and data science. She also is passionate about promoting diversity, equity and inclusion both in and out of the classroom.
PhD in Mathematics
Kansas State University
Advisor: Nathan Albin
Thesis: Modulus of edge covers, fractional edge covers and stars
May 2024
BS in Discrete Mathematics
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Spring 2018
Fall 2023 “Modulus of Edge Covers and Stars”, arXiv:2309.13180v2 [math.CO]. Fall 2023
Fall 2018 “Predicting Graph Categories from Structural Properties”, arXiv:1805.02682v1 [cs.SI].
October 2023 Hostinsky Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in Academics Award.
September 2023 Featured in The Lathisms Hispanic Heritage Month Calendar: “Lathisms: Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences”.
February 2023 William L. Stamey Award for Graduate Teaching Assistant.
K-State College of Arts & Sciences Nominee for the Midwest Association of Graduate School award.
2020-2021 Academic Year The Sylvia T. Bozeman Predoctoral Fellowship, Mathematically Gifted and Black, Awarded $200.
Fall 2018 - Spring 2020 Timothy R Donoghue Leadership Scholarship. Awarded $2400 per year.
Fall 2017 Outstanding Research and Presentation Award at The SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference.