Faculty and Staff Directory
"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
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Other Areas of Interest
- Actuarial mathematics (passed exam P and exam FM + accreditation for economics)
Areas of Expertise
- Projective geometry
- Algebraic and geometric combinatorics
- Groups acting on geometries and graphs
Jianping Dong
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Statistical Genetics
- Statistics, especially smoothing techniques, analysis of contingency tables, and density estimation
Kathleen A. Feigl
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
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
John Gruver
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Research Interests
- Students' Learning Experiences in Classrooms
- Discourse Analysis
- Teacher Education
Areas of Expertise
- First-Year College Mathematics
- Mathematics Education
Renfang Jiang
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Statistical genetics, especially wavelet-based methods
- Combinatorial group theory
- Low dimensional topology
William Keith
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Combinatorics, partition theory, q-series, generating function identities
"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
Areas of Expertise
- Probability and Statistics
Melissa S. Keranen
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Combinatorial designs
- Graph decompositions
- Graph colorings
Todd R. King
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Applied mathematics
- Online and hybrid (online/classroom) education
Donald L. Kreher
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Design theory
- Combinatorial algorithms
Alexander E. Labovsky
Associate 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
David A. Olson
Senior Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mathematical Sciences
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
Benjamin W. Ong
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Scientific computing
- Numerical PDEs
- Parallel Computing
- Plasma modeling and simulation
Iosif Pinelis
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Probability, including exact inequalities and limit theorems
- Mathematical statistics
- Optimization
- Evolutionary modeling
- Operations research
Cécile Piret
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Specialties
- Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
- Numerical PDEs
- Radial Basis Functions Method
- Fractional Differential Equations
Elizabeth J. Reed
Senior Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Assistant to the Chair, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Statistics
- Forest Biometrics
Yeonwoo Rho
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Time Series Analysis
- Econometrics
- Bootstrap/Resampling
Research Interests
- Unit Root Testing
- Censored Data
- Mixed Frequency Data
Qiuying Sha
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Statistical Genetics
- Applied Statistics
Shari L. Stockero
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Director of Teacher Education, Cognitive and Learning 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
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Lie Theory
- Algebraic Geometry
- Representation Theory
Jiguang Sun
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
- Statistical Computing
- Bayesian Modeling
- Statistical Consulting
Zeying Wang
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Area of Expertise
- Combinatorial Design Theory
- Algebraic Coding Theory
- Partial difference sets and strongly regular Cayley graphs
Zhengfu Xu
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
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
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
—Ronald Reagan, American revolutionary
—Ronald Reagan, American revolutionary
Fabrizio Zanello
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics
- Combinatorial Commutative Algebra
- Partition Theory
Kui Zhang
David House Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Statistical Genetics and Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Applied Statistics
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Statistical genetics
- Bioinformatics
- Theoretical Statistics