Thu Le

Van Vleck Assistant Professor

Undergraduate Research Mentoring


University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA

WISCERS (Summer 2025)

Co-mentored a group of three students on research projects through the WISCERS program.

Students: Richmond Boahene (Gustavus Adolphus College), Manasvi Khandelwal (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Ethan Xiao (University of Wisconsin–Madison).

Projects: Element Learning Methods for Efficiently Solving 2D Radiative Transfer Equations.


Kansas State University, USA

REU (Summer 2024)

Co-mentored a group of three students on a research project through the REU SUMaR.

Students: Isabella Garcia (Marist College), Julia Lewis-Borgia (Smith College), Ashley Song (Rice University).

Project: Reconstruction of Radiating Point Sources from Single Frequency Data in a 2D Acoustic Waveguide.

Mentored Jayci Shepard (Fall 2023 – Spring 2024)

Co-mentored a research project and mentored the student through the Directed Reading Program.

Projects:

  • An Introduction to Machine Learning.
  • A Robust Sampling Method for Inverse Scattering Problems.

Mentored Ryan Seidler (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022)

Co-mentored a research project and mentored the student through the Directed Reading Program.

Projects:

  • Testing the Performance of an Imaging Method for Various Targets in Inverse Scattering.
  • An Orthogonality Sampling Type Method for Inverse Scattering Problems.

Mentored Hayden Schmidt (Spring 2020 – Spring 2021)

Co-mentored two research projects.

Projects:

  • Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering in Bi-anisotropic Media.
  • Applications of Orthogonality Sampling Methods to 3D Experimental Data.

Other Mentoring Activities

  • REU SUMaR Assistant (Summer 2023 & 2024): Ran computing tutorials and workshops.
  • Chair of panel discussions on Graduate School Opportunities for REU participants at Kansas State University.