Faculty and Staff Directory
Juergen Bierbrauer
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Coding theory
- Design theory
- Cryptography
"Mathematics is like cooking, it requires confident guesswork and improvisation, experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way."
—Paraphrased from "Sir Vidia's Shadow" by Paul Theroux
—Paraphrased from "Sir Vidia's Shadow" by Paul Theroux
Stefaan De Winter
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Projective geometry
- Algebraic and geometric combinatorics
- Combinatorial and group theoretical stud
Jianping Dong
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Statistical Genetics
- Statistics, especially smoothing techniques, analysis of contingency tables, and density estimation
Kathleen A. Feigl
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Finite element methods for fluids
- Modeling and simulation of viscoelastic fluids
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Inverse problems in partial differential equations
- Numerical optimization
- Mathematical software
Jason Gregersen
Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Director of Math Lab
Ann M. Humes
Senior Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- First-Year College Mathematics
- Mathematics Education
Renfang Jiang
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Statistical genetics, especially wavelet-based methods
- Combinatorial group theory
- Low dimensional topology
"How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science."
Philip N. Kendall
Senior Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Probability and Statistics
Melissa S. Keranen
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Combinatorial designs
- Graph decompositions
- Graph colorings
Todd R. King
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Applied mathematics
- Online and hybrid (online/classroom) education
Robert W. Kolkka
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Viscoelasticity, bifurcation and stability theory
- Polymer rheology
Donald L. Kreher
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Design theory
- Combinatorial algorithms
Alexander E. Labovsky
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Turbulence Modeling, Computational Fluid dynamics
- High-accuracy numerical methods for PDEs
- Uncertainty Quantification, high-dimensional integration
"You have chosen wisely"
Links of Interest
David A. Olson
Senior Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Applied Mathematics
- Fluid Flow
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Finance
- PDEs
Tamara Olson
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Composites Modeling
Iosif Pinelis
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Probability, including exact inequalities and limit theorems
- Mathematical statistics
- Optimization
- Evolutionary modeling
- Operations research
Elizabeth J. Reed
Senior Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Assistant to the Chair, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Statistics
- Forest Biometrics
Qiuying Sha
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Statistical Genetics
- Applied Statistics
Shari L. Stockero
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Preservice Mathematics Teacher Education
- Teacher Professional Development
- Teacher Noticing
- Teacher Learning
- Use of Video Cases in Teacher Education
"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
—Theodore Roosevelt
—Theodore Roosevelt
Allan A. Struthers
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Algorithms that can be parallelized on GPUs
- Applications of differential equations to science and engineering
Jie Sun
Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Lie Theory
- Algebraic Geometry
- Representation Theory
Jiguang Sun
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
List of Interests
Area of Expertise
- Numerical Methods for PDEs
- Inverse Problems
- Scientific Computing
- EM methods in Geophysics
Franz X. Tanner
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Computational fluid dynamics, especially the modeling of sprays and multiphase flows
Vladimir D. Tonchev
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Discrete Mathematics
Min Wang
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Bayesian Statistics
- Quality and Reliability Engineering
- Statistical Computing
Zeying Wang
Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Area of Expertise
- Combinatorial Design Theory
- Algebraic Coding Theory
Zhengfu Xu
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Numerical PDE, Scientific computing
- Computational modeling of Nafion material
- Mathematical image processing, inverse problems, nonlinear optics
Yang Yang
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Numerical methods for time-dependent equations
- Superconvergence of discontinuous Galerkin methods
- Numerical cosmology
"People can be divided into three groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened."
—John W. Newbern
—John W. Newbern
Fabrizio Zanello
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics
- Combinatorial Commutative Algebra
- Partition Theory
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Statistical genetics
- Bioinformatics
- Theoretical Statistics
