Faculty and Staff Directory | Mathematical Sciences | Michigan Technological University

$Kathleen Burke$

Kathleen Burke

Administrative Aide 8

kjburke@mtu.edu
906-487-1495
Fisher Hall 302

Specialties/Areas of Responsibility

Graduate & Undergraduate Assistant
General Department Operations

Chelsie Carne

Budget Coordinator/Office Manager

Specialties

Budget Manager
General Department Operations
Administrative Support to the Chair

$Fan Dai$

Fan Dai

Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Research Interests:

High-dimensional Data Inference
Directional Data
Matrix-free Methods

Area of Expertise:

Statistical Computing & Graphics
Spatial Statistics
Bayesian Statistics
Statistical Consulting

$Kathleen Feigl$

Kathleen A. Feigl

Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Associate Editor, Physics of Fluids

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise

Computational fluid dynamics
Simulation and modeling of multi-phase and viscoelastic fluids
Drop dynamics in emulsions and sprays

$Jason Gregersen$

Jason Gregersen

Senior Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Director of Math Lab

$John Gruver$

John Gruver

Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Research Interests

Students' Learning Experiences in Classrooms
Discourse Analysis
Teacher Education

David Hemmer

Dean, College of Sciences and Arts
Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Department of Mathematics Office

906-487-2905
Fisher 312

Links of Interest

Hemmer Named Dean of Michigan Tech’s College of Sciences and Arts

$Ann Humes$

Ann M. Humes

Principal Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Director, First-Year Mathematics

Areas of Expertise

First-Year College Mathematics
Mathematics Education

$Glenn Ierley$

Glenn Ierley

Adjunct Professor, Mathematical Sciences

grierley@gmail.com

Susan Janiszewski

Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
Research Assistant Professor, Mathematics

srjanisz@mtu.edu
734-913-6868
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Areas of Expertise

Graph Theory
Combinatorics
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Distributed Computing

Research Interests

Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing
Scalable Graph Algorithms
Data Fusion Techniques
Geospatial Application

$Ellen Kamischke$

Ellen Kamischke

Instructor, Mathematical Sciences

$Eric Kamischke$

Eric Kamischke

Instructor, Mathematical Sciences

$William Keith$

William J. Keith

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Faculty Website

Areas of Expertise

Combinatorics, partition theory, q-series, generating function identities

$Philip Kendall$

"How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science."
—Michael Shermer

Philip N. Kendall

Senior Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Probability and Statistics

$Melissa Keranen$

Melissa S. Keranen

Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Graduate Program Director

Areas of Expertise

Combinatorial designs
Graph decompositions
Graph colorings

$Byung-Jun Kim$

Byung-Jun Kim

bkim1@mtu.edu
906-487-2694
Fisher Hall 316

Areas of Expertise

Multivariate data analysis
Semiparametric regression for functional estimation
Variable selection

Research Interests

Covariance matrix estimation and graphical modeling
Kernel regression in machine learning
High-dimensional data analysis
Statistical inference with measurement error in covariates

$Todd King$

Todd R. King

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Applied mathematics
Online and hybrid (online/classroom) education

Sarah Kitchen

Research Engineer/Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
Research Assistant Professor, Mathematics

snkitche@mtu.edu
734-994-7236
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Areas of Expertise

Algebraic Geometry
Representation Theory

Research Interests

Algebraic Structures Underlying Optimization Problems and Applications of Emerging Statistical Tools to Signal Processing and Source Separation Problems
Multi-Agent Autonomy

$Alexander Labovsky$

Alexander E. Labovsky

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Faculty Web Page

Areas of Expertise

Turbulence Modeling, Computational Fluid dynamics
High-accuracy numerical methods for PDEs
Uncertainty Quantification, high-dimensional integration

Joseph Lindgren

Research Engineer/Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
Research Assistant Professor, Mathematics

jblindgr@mtu.edu
734-994-7231
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Areas of Expertise

Mathematical Physics/PDE
Lyapunov Stability of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Optimization

Research Interests

Reinforcement Machine Learning
Knowledge Graph Reasoning
Optimal Control

Hassan Masoud

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise

Fluid Mechanics
Transport Phenomena
Applied Mathematics
Scientific Computing

Research Interests

Interfacial and Multiphase Flows
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Mechanics of Soft Matter
Biological and Bio-Inspired Fluid Mechanics
Flow Through Porous Media
Micro and Nano Fluidics

$Patrick McFall$

Patrick McFall

Instructor, Mathematical Sciences
Math Learning Center Director, Mathematical Sciences

pdmcfall@mtu.edu
Fisher 311

$Ray Molzon$

Ray Molzon

Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences

$David Olson$

David A. Olson

Senior Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mathematical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Applied Mathematics
Fluid Flow
Evolutionary Ecology
Finance
PDEs

$Tamara Olson$

Tamara R. Olson

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Faculty Web Page

Areas of Expertise

Composites Modeling

$Benjamin Ong$

Benjamin W. Ong

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Undergraduate Advisor (Business Analytics, Math + CS)

Links of Interest

Personal Webpage

Areas of Expertise

Scientific computing
Numerical PDEs
Parallel Computing
Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra
Dimension Reduction

$Iosif Pinelis$

Iosif Pinelis

Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Probability, including exact inequalities and limit theorems
Mathematical statistics
Optimization
Evolutionary modeling
Operations research

$Cécile Piret$

Cécile M. Piret

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Personal Website

Specialties

Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Numerical PDEs
Radial Basis Functions Method
Fractional Differential Equations

$Yeonwoo Rho$

Yeonwoo Rho

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Time Series Analysis
Econometrics
Bootstrap/Resampling

Research Interests

Unit Root Testing
Mixed Frequency Data
Clustering using Penalized Regression

$Qiuying Sha$

Qiuying Sha

Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Statistical Genetics
Applied Statistics

$Allan Struthers$

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
—Theodore Roosevelt

Allan A. Struthers

Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Faculty Web Page

Areas of Expertise

Algorithms that can be parallelized on GPUs
Applications of differential equations to science and engineering

$Jie Sun$

Jie Sun

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

sjie@mtu.edu

Areas of Expertise

Lie Theory
Algebraic Geometry
Representation Theory

$Jiguang Sun$

Jiguang Sun

Department Chair, Mathematical Sciences
Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Faculty Web Page

Area of Expertise

Numerical Methods for PDEs
Inverse Problems
Scientific Computing
EM methods in Geophysics

$Franz Tanner$

Franz X. Tanner

Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Faculty Web Page

Areas of Expertise

Computational fluid dynamics, especially the modeling of sprays and multiphase flows

$Vladimir Tonchev$

Vladimir D. Tonchev

Distinguished Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Faculty Web Page

Areas of Expertise

Discrete Mathematics
Coding Theory
Combinatorics
Finite Geometry

$Tim Wagner$

Tim Wagner

Instructor, Mathematical Sciences

"We are doing excellent job in describing how an individual gene functions, but not how life functions. Systems biology is to fill this gap."

Hairong Wei

Professor
Editor-in-Chief, Forestry Research (ForRes): http://www.maxapress.com/journal/forres
Affiliated Professor, Mathematical Sciences & Computer Science

hairong@mtu.edu
906-487-1473
Noblet Building 176

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise

Identification of genes regulating complex traits via systems biology approaches
Gene expression data analysis
Gene network construction and decomposition
Developing software for mining large-scale biological data
Genomics of wood formation

$Teresa Woods$