National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in Mathematics: Profiles

Tuncay Aktosun
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
I am a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. My research area is differential equations and applied analysis, with research interests in scattering and spectral problems, inverse problems, and wave propagation. Some examples of ...Read More

David B. Allison
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Alabama, Birmingham
David B. Allison received his Ph.D. from Hofstra University in 1990. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a second post-doctoral fellowship at the NIH-funded New York Obesity Research Center a ...Read More

Gaik Ambartsoumian
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
Dr. Gaik Ambartsoumian received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Texas A&M University in 2006. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington and an Adjunct Faculty of the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineer ...Read More

Robert Ankenmann
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
It is my philosophy that every person, whatever their stage of life, has the capacity to learn something, and that the role of the educator is to empower individuals to autonomously recognize their potential-their capacity for growth-and to facilitate the ...Read More

Dieter Armbruster
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Arizona State University
Dieter Armbruster has a Ph.D in Physics from the University of Tuebingen in Germany, did postdoctoral work in engineering at Cornell University, currently is a professor in mathematics at Arizona State University and a part-time professor in mechanical en ...Read More

Pam Arroway
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University

Pam Arroway is currently Assistant Department Head and Co-Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University. Dr. Arroway received her PhD from Iowa State in 1999 and subsequently joined North Carolina State ...Read More

Syvillia Averett
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am a 4th year studying representation theory. ...Read More

Louis Beaugris
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Kean University

I had a great experience in graduate school at the University of Iowa. The faculty is student friendly and well known nationally and internationally for their research. There ...Read More

Matthias Beck
Graduate Mentor
San Francisco State University
After studies at the University of W�rzburg, SUNY Oneonta, and Temple University, and postdoctoral positions at SUNY Binghamton, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA, and the Max-Planck-Institute in Bonn, Germany, Matthias Beck arr ...Read More

Clifford Bergman
Graduate Mentor
Iowa State University
Cliff Bergman is a Professor of Mathematics at Iowa State University. He has served as Director of Graduate Education for the department since July 2011. Bergman's research covers universal algebra, logic, and parts of computer science. As a member of IS ...Read More

Ian Besse
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
�What I appreciate most about the environment that has been created in the department is the fact that racial and ethnic issues are in the forefront of departmental discourse.� ...Read More

Gerard Buskes
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Mississippi
Professor Buskes received his Ph.D. from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands in 1983. He has taught at the University of Mississippi since 1985. He was Freshman Teacher of the year in 1992. Buskes has published research papers in Functional Anal ...Read More

Luis F. Caceres-Duque
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Director of Math Olympiads in Puerto Rico. Interested in Math Education, Logic and Algebra. ...Read More

Victor Camillo
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am from a working class background in Bridgeport Connecticut. When I was young there was a search for scientists, and support available. I got very excited about the prospect of thinking for a living. I had good undergraduate mentors and a very stong ...Read More

Steve Campbell
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
Steve Campbell is Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Graduate Program. He has done research in functional analysis, linear algebra, numerical analysis, differential equations, and control theory. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has a good over ...Read More

Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Arizona State University
Carlos Castillo-Chavez is a University Regents and a Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor at Arizona State University. Castillo-Chavez�s research program is carried out at the interface of the natural and social sciences and puts emphasis on (i) the role of dyna ...Read More

Kathryn Chaloner
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I have an undergraduate degree in math, and an MS, and PhD in Statistics. I am a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Iowa, and my research involves applying and developing statistical methods for problems arising in medical research. I colla ...Read More

Benito Chen-Charpentier
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
I have research interests in the areas of numerical analysis and partial differential equations as these areas relate to the problems of fluid flow through porous media, multiphase and multi-component flow, secondary oil recovery, flow with heat sources a ...Read More

Quo-Shin Chi
Graduate Mentor
Washington University
I got my Ph. D. at Stanford in 1986. I am a differential geometer and am most interested in the interplay between differential geometry and algebraic geometry. ...Read More

Moody Chu
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
I am a mathematician with an appreciation and broad interest in almost all aspects of lives. I am more than happy to share my experiences and thoughts with students. Please see my website for more information. ...Read More

Stacey Cofield
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Alabama, Birmingham
I have been a professor at UAB for 6, almost 7 years. I did my graduate work in Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), in Biostatistics. My primary teaching focus is introductory statistics at the graduate level. I really feel that statisti ...Read More

Donald Cole
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Mississippi
Dr. Donald R. Cole is an administrator and faculty member at the University of Mississippi. In his capacities as Assistant Provost and Assistant to the Chancellor for Multicultural Affairs and Associate Professor of Mathematics, Dr. Cole plays an active l ...Read More

Omar Colón-Reyes
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Omar Col�n-Reyes was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1977. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in May 2005 under the supervision of Reinhard Laubenbacher. His area of research is Discrete Dynami ...Read More

Minerva Cordero
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
Minerva Cordero always had the support of her parents. Her mother, who only completed the seventh grade, valued Education and often said to her children, "The best thing I can give you is an Education." Cordero and her five siblings could be found every n ...Read More

Kate Cowles
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am an associate professor of Statistics and Biostatistics. I tell students that statistics is a great field for people who like math but are interested in other things as well, because statistics is used in almost every line of work -- science, busines ...Read More

Carina Curto
Graduate Mentor
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
I am a new Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. My research is in interdisciplinary and applied math. Specifically, I work on problems stemming from computational and theoretical neuroscience. Prior to coming to UNL, I was a post ...Read More

Jim Michael Cushing
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
Jim Cushing is a Professor in the Mathematics Department and is a member of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado in mathematics in 1964 and his PhD in applied m ...Read More

Jeffrey Dawson
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I was always interested in math and in medical sciences, so I was happy to find biostatistics as a field for my career. I have done collaborative research with over 20 medical departments at the University of Iowa, which has been very interesting. I enj ...Read More

Carlos De la Mora
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am a 4th year grad student at The University of Iowa. I got my undergraduate at the Univeristy of Texas at El Paso. I work in an intersection of number theory and representation theory, which is a very fun subject and related to almost any branch of mat ...Read More

Rhonda DeCook
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
Before going back to school to get a graduate degree, I taught high school mathematics in Madison, Wisconsin. I taught in two different high schools while in Madison. When I switched to my second school, I was making a personal choice to teach in an env ...Read More

David Ellis
Graduate Mentor
San Francisco State University
Professor David Ellis is a Mentor with the San Francisco State University Mathematics Department. ...Read More

James Anthony Mendoza Epperson
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. I took a postdoctoral position in Mathematics Education right after completing my Ph.D. and my work now focuses on research and curriculum development in mathematics educat ...Read More

Molly Fenn
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
I received my PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in May of 2008 and began working at NC State the following fall. I am a Teaching Assistant Professor here meaning my position is very teaching focused in a large , mostly research focused ...Read More

Renato Feres
Graduate Mentor
Washington University
I'm originally from Brazil, and came to the U.S. in 1985 to do my graduate studies in mathematics. I received my doctoral degree in mathematics at Caltech in 1989, with a dissertation in the area of dynamical systems. Since then, I've lived for a year in ...Read More

John Franke
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
I do research in discrete dynamical systems applied to population dynamics, ecology, epidemiology and genetics. My first Ph.D. student is now the chairman of Howard University. ...Read More

Dimitar Grantcharov
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
Dimitar Grantcharov received his Ph.D. in mathematics from University of California, Riverside, in 2003. He has been an assistant professor at the University of Texas Arlington since 2008. His research is in the areas of representations of Lie algebras a ...Read More

Marcia Gumpertz
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff Diversity Marcia Gumpertz has been a member of the North Carolina State University (NCSU) faculty since 1989. In 1989 she joined the Statistics Department as an assistant professor, from 1995 to 2000 served as ...Read More

Ryan Gutenkunst
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona

Ryan Gutenkunst trained in Physics at the California Institute of Technology and at Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. Following a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he joined the University of Arizona in 2010. There he is an Assi ...Read More

Aloysius Gerardus Helminck
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
I have worked with students on research in a broad range of areas, including algebra, Representation theory, Lie groups, symmetric spaces, geometry, symbolic computation and combinatorics. ...Read More

Leslie Hogben
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Iowa State University
Leslie Hogben is a Professor of mathematics at Iowa State University and Associate Director for Program Diversity of the American Institute of Mathematics. She received her Ph.D. in 1978 from Yale University. Originally working in nonassociative algebra, ...Read More

George Howard
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Dr. George Howard is Professor and Chair of Biostatistics at the UAB. He received his training in biostatistics was from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has had experience in biostatistics, data management, and the direction of coordin ...Read More

Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
Professor Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver has been at North Carolina State University since 1992, after one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She obtained her B.A. in mathematics from the University of Ci ...Read More

David A. Jorgensen
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
I am an associate professor of mathematics at University of Texas at Arlington. My research area is in algebra, with specialization in homological methods for commutative rings and finite dimensional algebras. The problems I tend to work on have their ro ...Read More

Palle E T Jorgensen
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am a professor of mathematics, and I have taught at the University of Iowa since 1984. Before that, I taught at Stanford University, at the University of Pennsylvania, and at Aarhus University, Denmark. I am a research mathematician, with funding from ...Read More

Theresa Jorgensen
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
I am an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department. My chief area of interest is the education of teachers of mathematics. I did my Ph.D. research in partial differential equations, in particular, studying the wave equation in multiple dimensions ...Read More

Suzanne Judd
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Alabama, Birmingham
I am Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at UAB and am the team leader for the data management and analytic team for the REGARDS project which is a large epidemiologic study examining stroke risk factors. I went to Emory University to pursue a PhD and he ...Read More

Matthias Kawski
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Arizona State University
Mathematics thrives on the amazing interconnections between different area. I personally started in differential geometric control theory and currently focus on combinatorial Hopf algebras! Control is about the next question: instead of just computing an ...Read More

Tom Kennedy
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
Tom Kennedy is a Math Alliance Mentor with the University of Arizona. He is a Professor in the Mathematics Department and the Associate Head for their graduate program, as well as a member of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics. ...Read More

Matt Kerr
Graduate Mentor
Washington University
(Ph.D., Princeton University, 2003) My broad area is Algebraic Geometry, the subject which studies the solution sets of polynomial equations ("algebraic spaces"). Most of my current work centers on Hodge theory, which describes the influence of integral ...Read More

Wolfgang Kliemann
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Iowa State University
Wolfgang Kliemann is professor and chair at the Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University. He received his PhD in 1980 from the Institute of Dynamical Systems, University of Bremen, Germany. His research area can be described broadly as 'systems th ...Read More

Hristo Kojouharov
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
I am an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. My main scientific research covers the fields of mathematical biology and numerical analysis. It is strongly motivated and oriented toward applications. I am primarily int ...Read More

Christopher M. Kribs Zaleta
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
I have a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Curriculum & Instruction at UT Arlington, just a short drive from Dallas, where I was born and raised. I studied math and electrical engineering at Duke University, obtained a master's in e ...Read More

Phil Kutzko
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
Phillip Kutzko was a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring by President Obama at the White House on January 6, 2010! Congratulations Dr. Kutzko! - IBP Staff Under Phil Kutzko�s leadership ...Read More

Russell Lenth
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I do research in statistical computing and in what has recently been labeled statistical engineering. The idea of the latter is that basic research produces a "parts list", while engineers figure out how to use the available parts to make useful new thin ...Read More

Ren-Cang Li
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
Ren-Cang Li, currently a professor at University of Texas at Arlington, received his PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1995 from University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include High Performance Computing, Numerical Solution of Ordinary Di ...Read More

Yan Li
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
My research interest is to develop proper statistical methods for resolving scientific questions raised in the complex survey and case-control data analysis, with special interest in the areas of statistical genetics, genetic association study, gene-envir ...Read More

Yi Li
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
In the past two decades, Yi Li has dedicated his mathematical research career to the study of nonlinear problems involving elliptic and parabolic equations/systems and their applications in mathematical physics, geometry, biomedical engineering, medical r ...Read More

Nianjun Liu
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Alabama, Birmingham
My general research interest is to develop statistical and computational methods to solve problems related to human health, with a special emphasis on genetics and bioinformatics. My research interests include genetic linkage and association analysis, di ...Read More

Donald Martin
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
Donald Martin is a Math Alliance Mentor and Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at NCSU. ...Read More

Joanna Masel
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona

Our research asks how evolution works. If you make a random "mutation" to the zeros and ones of a computer program, the probability of improving its function may literally be zero. Yet when the same happens to DNA sequences, biological evolution is pos ...Read More

Aba Mbirika
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
�Coming from a predominantly minority New York City schooling system as a youth, then moving to a predominantly white university system for undergraduate in Northern California, I have experienced a range of 'rainbow' levels. Although I never really notic ...Read More

William McCallum
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
William G. McCallum is a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1956, he received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984, und ...Read More

Leslie Ain McClure
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Dr. McClure is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She was a math major as an undergraduate, but felt that she wanted to use her quantitative skills in a very applied fashion, and thus found that Biostatist ...Read More

Fabio Augusto Milner
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Arizona State University
I was born and raised in Argentina in a middle class family of Argentine-born and raised parents. I did all my schooling in Buenos Aires in public schools, graduating in 1971. I am also a 1971 graduate of Piqua Central High in Ohio. I studied at the Unive ...Read More

Jacob J. Oleson
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
Dr. Oleson is an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics and a faculty member in the Center for Public Statistics for the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa. He conducts both biostatistical methodologic research and collaborative clinical re ...Read More

Omayra Ortega
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa; Arizona State University
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Arizona State University

A Lucky Choice: Reflecting on My Time as a Grad Student in Mathematics at the University of Iowa

When I chose to attend the University of Iowa, my decision wasn't based on much ...Read More

Omayra Ortega
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa; Arizona State University
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Arizona State University

A Lucky Choice: Reflecting on My Time as a Grad Student in Mathematics at the University of Iowa

When I chose to attend the University of Iowa, my decision wasn't based on much ...Read More

Omayra Ortega
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa; Arizona State University
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Arizona State University

A Lucky Choice: Reflecting on My Time as a Grad Student in Mathematics at the University of Iowa

When I chose to attend the University of Iowa, my decision wasn't based on much ...Read More

Omayra Ortega
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa; Arizona State University
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Arizona State University

A Lucky Choice: Reflecting on My Time as a Grad Student in Mathematics at the University of Iowa

When I chose to attend the University of Iowa, my decision wasn't based on much ...Read More

Reyes ''Matiel'' Ortiz
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Dr. Reyes ''Matiel'' Ortiz-Albino obtained his double-majored in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. In 2002, was accepted as a GAANN Fellowship student in a Mathematics PhD Program at The University of Iowa. He de ...Read More

Reyes M. Ortiz-Albino
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Dr. Reyes M. Ortiz-Albino (Matiel) obtained his double-majored in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. In 2002, was accepted as a GAANN Fellowship student in a Mathematics PhD Program at The University of Iowa. He d ...Read More

Juan Ortiz-Navarro
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Dr. Juan Ortiz-Navarro obtained his major in Computational Mathematics at University of Puerto Rico � Humacao. In 2007, he obtained his PhD in Pure Math from the University of Iowa. He went on to work as a Visiting Assistant Professor at The University ...Read More

Stephen Pankavich
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, Arlington. My areas of research include Applied Analysis, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, specifically those within Kinetic Theory and Nonlinear Waves, and Multiscale Modelin ...Read More

Maria-Eglee Perez
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Dr. Maria-Eglee Perez is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico-R�o Piedras campus in the area of Statistics. She got a PhD in Mathematics Degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1994. She joined the faculty of the ...Read More

Walter W. Piegorsch
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
Walter W. Piegorsch is Chair of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) in Statistics at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. He is also a Professor of Mathematics, a Professor of Public Health, a Member of the GIDP in Applied Mathematics, and Di ...Read More

Candice Price
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am from Northern California. I got my BS from California State University Chico and my MA from San Francisco State University. I am currently a 4th year in the program. My area is Topology with a focus on DNA Topology and Knot Theory. ...Read More

Petronela Radu
Graduate Mentor
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
I am an Assistant Professor in Mathematics at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and my research area is in Partial Differential Equations with an emphasis on wave and other evolution equations. Although the research I am doing is mainly of a theoretical natu ...Read More

Wayne Raskind
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Arizona State University
I have diverse research interests in algebra and number theory, with applications to cryptography, information security, and fluid flow. I am also very interested in mathematics education.

In addition to mentoring students and faculty in mathematic ...Read More

Juan Restrepo
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
Juan M. Restrepo is the son of a Colombian artist and politician and an American pianist and TV producer. He grew up in Hackensack, NJ, where his Armenian grandmother and Sicilian grandfather lived as well as in Bogota, Colombia where he did most of his p ...Read More

Karen R. Ríos-Soto
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Karen R. Rios-Soto got her bachelor degree with honors in Mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in 2002. She received a Sloan fellowship to attend Cornell University in 2002 and completed her Ph.D. degree in 2008 from the Biological Sta ...Read More

Jesus Rodriguez
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
I was born in Cuba, received my bachelor's degree from the University of Puerto and my doctorate from the University of Maryland. ...Read More

Alexander Roitershtein
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Iowa State University
I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Iowa State University. My research is in probability theory and stochastic processes. Most of my work focuses on various models of self-interacting random walks. I got my PhD in Applied Mathematics at Technion ...Read More

Ivelisse Rubio
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Dr. Ivelisse M. Rubio was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico at R�o Piedras and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University. Her research interests ...Read More

Heather Russell
Graduate Mentor
Louisiana State University; University of Southern California; University of Iowa
I am currently a non-tenure track assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at University of Southern California. Before that, I spent two years as a VIGRE post-doc at Louisiana State University. I received my Ph.D. in 2009 from The University ...Read More

Ricardo Sanfelice
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
Ricardo G. Sanfelice is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona. He is also an Affiliate Member at the Program in Applied Mathematics ...Read More

Dámaris Santana-Morant
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
D�maris Santana-Morant was born in Puerto Rico. She earned a bachelor's degree in Computational Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao and a M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico, R�o Piedras. In the summer ...Read More

Timothy Secomb
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
Dr. Timothy W. Secomb trained in mathematics at the University of Melbourne (Australia) and in applied mathematics at Cambridge University (U.K.), where he received his Ph.D. He joined the University of Arizona in 1981, where he is a Professor with appoi ...Read More

Brian J. Smith
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the College of Public Health and Director of the Biostatistics Core in the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC) at the University of Iowa. Courses that I have taught recently include bioinformatics, cat ...Read More

Sung Yell Song
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Iowa State University
Dr. Song is an associate professor of mathematics at Iowa State. He attended the Ohio State University in Columbus, and received M.S. in 1983 and Ph.D. in 1987 in Mathematics. After working as a visiting lecturer for a year at the OSU, he came to Iowa St ...Read More

Ernie Stitzinger
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
My areas of interest are non-associative algebras and applied algebra. I have been at NC State for 41 years. ...Read More

Osnat Stramer
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I enjoy teaching and research very much. My research area includes Stochastic Processes, Time Series Analysis, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo. ...Read More

Keith Stroyan
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am a math professor at the U of Iowa. I live in rural Iowa west of Iowa City where my wife and I raise and train Labrador retrievers, have a little patch of restored prairie, some woods and farm ground. I have a grown daughter who works for a manufact ...Read More

Jianzhong Su
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
Dr. Jianzhong Su is a professor of Mathematics and director of graduate studies at Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington. His research area is in applied mathematics related to computational neuroscience, optical diffusive tomography ...Read More

Maggy Tomov
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am a math professor at the University of Iowa. I earned my PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2005. After two short postdocs - one in Iowa and the second one at Rice, I am now a tenure track faculty. I study low dimensional Topolo ...Read More

Ubirajara van Kolck
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
Ubirajara (Bira) van Kolck is a Professor of Physics at the University of Arizona. Born in Brazil and raised by a family with Dutch and Italian roots, he got his Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin, working at the intersection of particle and nucl ...Read More

Jon Van Laarhoven
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am in my sixth and final year in the AMCS program. I study exact and heuristic algorithms for computing Euclidean Steiner Trees. ...Read More

Michaela Vancliff
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
I obtained my Mathematics Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Washington (Mathematics) under the supervision of S. Paul Smith. The University of Washington is in Seattle, WA, U.S.A. I obtained my Mathematics bachelor degree in 1986 from the University o ...Read More

William Yslas Velez
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
William Velez is a Math Alliance Mentor with the University of Arizona. His research interests are in number theory and algebra. His main professional activity is to increase the number of mathematics majors and to increase diversity. ...Read More

Shankar Venkataramani
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
Shankar Venkataramani is a faculty member and Math Alliance Mentor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Arizona. ...Read More

Mark Walker
Graduate Mentor
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
I am a professor at the University of Nebraska, where I have worked for over 13 years. My research interests concern algebraic K-theory, specifically its applications to commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.

I spent most of my childhood in Ne ...Read More

Mahamadi Warma
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
I am an associate professor of Mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. My research area is Partial Differential Equations, Potential Theory and applied Analysis with research interests in existence and regularity of solutions to ...Read More

Kimberly S. Weems
Graduate Mentor
North Carolina State University
Kimberly S. Weems, Ph.D. is a native of Cartersville, Georgia. As a teenager, she competed in math quiz bowls and participated in summer mathematics enrichment programs. After graduating from high school, Weems entered Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia ...Read More

Paulette Willis
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa; University of Houston
I am currently a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Houston. My areas of research include operator theory and functional analysis. I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Iowa in 2010. I received my u ...Read More

Gideon Zamba
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am Director of the Summer Institute in Biostatistics. I am on the faculty of the Department of Biostatitics in the College of Public Health and I collaborate with investigators in the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa. My re ...Read More

Kui Zhang
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Alabama, Birmingham
I obtained my PhD in probability and statistics from Peking University in 1999 and joined the section of statistical genetics of University of Alabama at Birmingham as a research assistant professor in 2003. I have two related but different research areas ...Read More

Degui Zhi
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Dr. Zhi received his Ph.D. in bioinformatics from University of California, San Diego in 2006. He then took his postdoctoral training in computational genomics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Section on Statistical Genetics at the ...Read More

Jianping Zhu
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
Jianping Zhu received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, in 1990. He has been a professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas Arlington since 2005. Prior to that, he held ...Read More

Dale Zimmerman
Graduate Mentor
University of Iowa
I am a professor who does research in spatial and environmental statistics and multivariate analysis. ...Read More