Mathematical Sciences
Also in this section

Faculty and Staff Directory

Stefaan De Winter
"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

Stefaan De Winter

  • Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
  • Rotating Program Director at NSF

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise

  • Projective geometry
  • Algebraic and geometric combinatorics
  • Groups acting on geometries and graphs
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
Mark Gockenbach

Mark S. Gockenbach

  • Department Chair, Mathematical Sciences
  • Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise

  • Inverse problems in partial differential equations
  • Numerical optimization
  • Mathematical software
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

David Hemmer

  • Dean, College of Sciences and Arts
  • Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Department of Mathematics Office

  • 906-487-2905
    Fisher 312

Links of Interest

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
Susan Janiszewski

Susan Janiszewski

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

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
Eric Kamischke

Eric Kamischke

  • Instructor, Mathematical Sciences
William Keith

William J. Keith

  • Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

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
Todd King

Todd R. King

  • Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Applied mathematics
  • Online and hybrid (online/classroom) education
Sarah Kitchen

Sarah Kitchen

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

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

Areas of Expertise

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

Joseph Lindgren

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

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

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
Jeanne Meyers

Jeanne Meyers

  • Budget Coordinator/Office Manager
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

Areas of Expertise

  • Composites Modeling
Benjamin Ong

Benjamin W. Ong

  • Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise

  • Scientific computing
  • Numerical PDEs
  • Parallel Computing
  • Plasma modeling and simulation
  • 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

Specialties

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

Kim Puuri

  • Administrative Aide
Yeonwoo Rho

Yeonwoo Rho

  • Assistant 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
  • Portage Health Foundation Endowed Professor of Population Health

Areas of Expertise

  • Statistical Genetics
  • Applied Statistics
Shari Stockero

Shari L. Stockero

  • 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
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

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

Areas of Expertise

  • Lie Theory
  • Algebraic Geometry
  • Representation Theory
Jiguang Sun

Jiguang Sun

  • Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

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

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

Areas of Expertise

  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Coding Theory
  • Combinatorics
  • Finite Geometry
Zeying Wang

Zeying Wang

  • Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Combinatorial Design Theory
  • Algebraic Coding Theory
  • Partial difference sets and strongly regular Cayley graphs
Hairong Wei
"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
  • Affiliated Professor, Mathematical Sciences
  • Affiliated Professor, Computer Science

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

Teresa M. Woods

  • Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
  • Assistant to the Chair, Mathematical Sciences
Zhengfu Xu

Zhengfu Xu

  • Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Link of Interest

Zhengfu Xu's Webpage

Areas of Expertise

  • Numerical PDE, Scientific computing
  • Computational modeling of Nafion material
  • Mathematical image processing, inverse problems, nonlinear optics
Yang Yang

Yang Yang

  • Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Specialties

  • Superconvergence of discontinuous Galerkin methods
  • Numerical cosmology
  • Numerical simulations for two-phase flow in porous media
  • Numerical methods for partial differential equations with blow-up solutions
  • Numerical simulations for gaseous detonation
  • Numerical simulations in fractured media, discrete fracture model
Fabrizio Zanello
"Today it might not be an overstatement to say that, in the minds of many people, Patek is first and foremost an idea. THEN it's a watch."
—Fabrizio Zanello (June 21, 2020)

Fabrizio Zanello

  • Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise

  • Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics
  • Commutative Algebra
  • Partition Theory
Kui Zhang

Kui Zhang

  • Dave House Endowed Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise

  • Statistical Genetics and Genomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Applied Statistics
Shuanglin Zhang

Shuanglin Zhang

  • Professor, Mathematical Sciences
  • Endowed Henes Professorship

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise

  • Statistical genetics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Theoretical Statistics
Xiao Zhang

Xiao Zhang

  • Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Bayesian computation
  • Missing data analysis
  • Longitudinal and multivariate data analysis
  • Survival analysis
  • Multi-state modeling
  • Statistical genetics