Luke Hawranick
Luke Hawranick, a member of the Honors College from Fairmont, will graduate with degrees in mathematics and computer science with an emphasis in cybersecurity and a minor in statistics. In addition to his coursework, he maintained a 4.0 GPA while immersed in rigorous research that reflects his interests in algorithm design and discrete mathematics.
This aspiring math professor and promising researcher has dedicated his summers to exploring techniques to enhance supercomputer efficiency and speed to help solve complex research problems. In the summer of 2023, he served as a fellow with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where he worked to make large program simulations run more efficiently on high-performance computers.
In the summer of 2022, he studied network efficiency as a participant in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, implementing and comparing the performance of algorithms to improve network reliability during his freshman year as a participant in the Research Apprenticeship Program — research that he has continued for his computer science senior capstone. And for his mathematics capstone project, he worked with faculty in the School of Mathematical and Data Sciences to study an open problem in Ramsey theory — a subfield of graph theory.
Among several other financial awards to travel and conduct research, he was given a full scholarship to conduct enumerative graph theory research as part of the Iowa State University Research Experience for Undergraduates last summer.
Hawranick also served as a resident assistant for Seneca Hall and tutor in the School of Mathematical and Data Sciences.
He will join the mathematics doctoral program at the University of South Carolina this fall.