Thomas Strohmer

Hello, UC Davis Math Department! I spent four years at UC Davis and completed my Ph.D. with Thomas Strohmer on applications of Compressive Sensing (CS) in 2009. Due to my previous time spent in industry, I was a non-traditional student. This gave me more focus because I basically knew what I was interested in.  I had experience in electrical engineering and physics, so CS was a good fit for me. (Fun fact: the Math Dept used to be in Kerr Hall. In my second semester we all moved to the newly constructed MSB!)

Shizhou Xu, originally from China, earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 2024 under the supervision of Professor Thomas Strohmer. His research focuses on the intersection of mathematics and trustworthy artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on fairness, privacy, interpretability, and robustness in machine learning.