Faculty Directory

Dr. John Singler

Professor and Interim Department Chair

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Differential and Difference Equations, Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis

Specific Research Interest
Data-driven model order reduction of partial differential equations (PDEs), computational methods for control of PDEs, applications in control theory, engineering, and the sciences

 

Dr. Akim Adekpedjou

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Statistics and Probability

Specific Research Interest
Recurrent event data analysis, stochastic processes, survival analysis

 

Dr. Elvan Akin

Professor

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Differential and Difference Equations

Specific Research Interest
The Theory of Time Scales (Unification of Continuous and Discrete Analysis),  Infectious Disease Modeling on Time Scales (HIV-1, Swine Flu, Tuberculosis, COVID-19), Oscillation Theory, Dynamical Systems, Inequalities, Stability Theory, Boundary Value Problems, Control Theory

Dr. Martin J. Bohner

Curators Distinguished Professor

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Analysis, Differential and Difference Equations

Specific Research Interest
Ordinary differential equations, dynamic equations on time scales, difference equations, Hamiltonian systems, variational analysis, boundary value problems, control theory, oscillation, analysis, fractional equations, applications to biology and economics

 

Dr. Nilanjan Chakraborty

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Specific Research Interest
Resampling methods, Inference for High Dimensional Data, Time Series, Statistical Analysis of Real-Life Networks, Neuroimaging, Survey Methodology.

 

Stephanie Fitch

Teaching Professor

Dr. Xiaoming He

Professor

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Differential and Difference Equations, Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis

Specific Research Interest
Interface problems, multi-phase problems, computational fluid dynamics, computational plasma physics, data assimilation, stochastic PDE's, boundary integral equations, feedback control, Finite element methods, domain decomposition methods, lattice Boltzmann methods, extrapolations 

Dr. Qingguo Hong

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

General Areas of Research

Dr. Wenqing Hu

Associate Professor

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Differential and Difference Equations, Statistics and Probability

Specific Research Interest
Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic Differential Equations, Random Dynamical Systems, (Stochastic) Partial Differential Equations, High-dimensional statistics, statistical machine learning, optimization

Kelley Koob

Associate Teaching Professor

Dr. Vy Khoi Le

Professor

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Analysis, Differential and Difference Equations

Specific Research Interest
Nonlinear differential equations, bifurcation, and calculus of variations

Dr. Clayton (C.J.) Lungstrum

Assistant Teaching Professor

Dr. Wumaier Maimaitiyiming

Assistant Teaching Professor

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Computational Mathematics and Applied Mathematics with the main focus on Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Optimal transport, Optimization, and Scientific Computing

Dr. Gayla Olbricht

Professor and Associate Department Chair

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Statistics and Probability

Specific Research Interest
Statistical genomics and epigenomics, hidden Markov models, modeling dependent data, mixed models

Dr. Robert Paige

Professor

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Statistics and Probability

Specific Research Interest
Causal inference, data science, statistical shape analysis, topological data analysis

Paul N. Runnion

Teaching Professor

Dr. VA Samaranayake

Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Statistics and Probability

Specific Research Interest
Time series analysis, data science, reliability, and statistical applications in biology, econometrics, and engineering.

Dr. Xuerong (Meggie) Wen

Professor

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Statistics and Probability

Specific Research Interest
Nonlinear and nonparametric regression, regression graphics, computational statistics and statistical genetics, with an emphasis on sufficient dimension reduction in the context of regression

Dr. Yanzhi Zhang

Professor

Research Interests

General Areas of Research
Differential and Difference Equations, Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis

Specific Research Interest
Fractional PDEs and nonlocal models, anomalous diffusion, data-informed modeling for seismic waves, machine learning algorithms and applications, Bose-Einstein superfluids, superconductivity, multiscale/multiphysics modeling and simulations, numerical dispersive PDEs