Nadia Ramos Valenzuela

MS Student in Mathematics

Advisor

Oleg Makhnin

Nadia Ramos Valenzuela

Nadia started studying at New Mexico Tech in August 2024, and she is set to graduate in the Spring 2026. She is currently working toward her Master’s Degree in Mathematics, with a specialty in Statistics and Data Science, with Dr. Oleg Makhnin as her research advisor. Her research is on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), a Machine Learning Algorithm used to generate synthetic Datasets. The model captures the patterns of a real dataset and generates new samples with the same statistical properties as the original dataset. Her goal is to be able to use a medical dataset to generate synthetic data and evaluate it on the metrics of utility (if it performs similarly in tasks as the real data), fidelity (if it accurately preserves the statistical properties of the real data), and privacy metrics (whether it is possible to sample a data point to re-identify a real data point).

Nadia did her Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics at the University of Sonora in Mexico, where she explored different math subjects and developed her thesis "Optimal Control Problem of the Mitra–Wan Forestry Model", an economic and forestry management problem, which ultimately led her to continue in applied mathematics.

During Nadia's bachelor’s degree, she also worked as a math tutor for the university of Sonora. Now she is a Teaching Assistant for the math department and so far she has taught the Calculus Lab, the Probability and Statistics Lab, as well as the Calculus II Extended and Calculus I courses during the summer term. Overall, she had a very enriching experience teaching, having to teach many students at a time and dealing with the time constraints that come with every course.

Additionally, Nadia also worked at the Tech library during summer 2025 and have been able to have a very comfortable and friendly experience at NMT as an international student and have been supported and helped by the Techies whenever she had a problem.

Original data are shown in blue, while the orange scatter plots show the evolution of the synthetic data generated by the GAN as the model is trained.

Important Dates

December 1st

Fall 2025 - Completion Paperwork

To graduate in Fall 2025, please ensure the following paperwork is submitted by December 1st, 2025:

Must have submitted your intent to graduate by midterm of the Summer semester or before

Thesis Submission: Submit the completed report of the advisory committee, the iThenticate report from your academic advisor, and the ProQuest submission of the final thesis/dissertation to the Center for Graduate Studies.

Independent Study: Submit one final copy of the accepted independent study paper to your advisor and advisory committee.

For more information, please refer to the Completion Guideline on the CGS website.

Student degrees are not complete until final materials have been approved by the Center for Graduate Studies and the student receives final acceptance via email from the ProQuest system. Students are encouraged to submit their thesis/dissertation drafts earlier to ensure that it will be accepted by the Registrar's deadline.

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Graduate Degree Path and Completion Guide Workshop Presentation

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Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA SSGF) - Jan. 13th, 2026 with an informational webinar set for Dec. 10, 2025- [Click for more info]

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NM Women in Tech Awards Scholarship [click here for more info]

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