Meet our incoming PhD students: Autumn 2025
We are pleased to introduce the vibrant and talented 2025 ICME PhD cohort. They bring expertise and a strong drive to create impact across many fields, including financial engineering, computational biology, mathematics, material sciences, plasma physics, and others.
Kaya Unalmis
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Alma Mater: Princeton University
Kaya is interested in partial differential equations, algorithms, and optimization.
Alkis Boukas
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Alma Mater: Cornell University
Alkis is interested in using mathematical/physical principles to design better architectures for machine learning models to solve optimization problems or PDEs numerically.
Michael Manta
Hometown: New York City
Alma Mater: California Institute of Technology
Michael joined ICME because he wanted to work in collaboration with researchers across many disciplines.
Salma Zainana
Hometown: Meknes, Morocco
Alma Mater: Ecole Polytechnique
Salma is interested in precision medicine and genetics.
