Tuncay Aktosun
Undergraduate Mentor
University of Texas, Arlington
I am a professor of mathematics at 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 par... » 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 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

Patricia Beaulieu
Undergraduate Mentor
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
I am an female African-American Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I am from Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. I have an M.Ed. in Mathematics Education from Tuskegee University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics... » Read More

Lecretia Buckley
Undergraduate Mentor
Jackson State University
Lecretia is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi. Her research focuses on equity issues in mathematics education in secondary schools and in pre-service teaching.... » 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

Erika Camacho
Undergraduate Mentor
Arizona State University, West Campus
Dr. Erika T. Camacho grew up in East Los Angeles and learned mathematics from Jaime Escalante at Garfield High School. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University under the guidance of Dr. Richard Rand. She is a Mellon Mays Fello... » 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

Benito Chen-Charpentier
Undergraduate 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

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 Colón-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 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

Nathaniel Dean
Undergraduate Mentor
Texas State University, San Marcos
My research focuses on mathematical modeling, discrete mathematics, optimization, data mining, bioinformatics and network visualization. I have over 60 publications in these fields, and some of my work is highlighted in the PBS television series Life by t... » Read More

Christina Eubanks-Turner
Undergraduate Mentor
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Dr. Christina Eubanks-Turner is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the area of Algebra. She received her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2008. Dr. Eubanks-Turner originally fr... » Read More

Roosevelt Gentry
Undergraduate Mentor
Jackson State University
Dr. Roosevelt Gentry faced a tough decision in high school -- whether to be a mathematician or biologist. "I loved both subjects," he recalls, "but I was not sure that I had a future in mathematics. Then my mathematics teacher, whom I admired, wrote in my... » Read More

Edray Herbert Goins
Undergraduate Mentor
Purdue University
Edray Herber Goins grew up in South Los Angeles, California. The product of the Los Angeles Unified (LAUSD) public school system, Dr. Goins attended the California Institute of Technology, where he majored in mathematics and physics, and earned his doctor... » Read More

Dimitar Grantcharov
Undergraduate 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

Renaldo Jeremiah Hemphill
Undergraduate Mentor
University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff
Educator: Passionate leader and educator; Successful in developing assessment tools and standards for measuring performance; Experienced in writing proposals for funding and successful accreditation reports; Participates regularly in community activities... » Read More

Raegan Higgins
Undergraduate Mentor
Texas Tech University
Dr. Higgins is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. She received a B.S. degree in mathematics from Xavier University of Louisiana in 2002, and the degrees of M.S. (2004) and PhD. (2008) from the Univer... » 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

Andrew Jones
Undergraduate Mentor
Florida A&M University
I am currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Florida A&M University. I also hold a joint appointment in the Industrial Engineering Department at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. I have served as the Principa... » Read More

Lester W. (Bill) Jones
Undergraduate Mentor
Xavier University of Louisiana
In my 35 years at Xavier, I have mentored over a hundred African-American mathematics and statistics majors. Over 50% have successfully completed at least a master's degree. In the last 15 years, 7 Black, female, math/stat grads from Xavier have received ... » Read More

David A. Jorgensen
Undergraduate 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

Theresa Jorgensen
Undergraduate 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

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 aabout the next question: instead of just computing a... » Read More

Hristo Kojouharov
Undergraduate 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 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

David Kung
Undergraduate Mentor
Saint Mary's College of Maryland
Dave Kung is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at St. Mary's College of Maryland - the only St. Mary's in the US that's a public institution. He earned three degrees in ten years at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, culminating with a Ph.D. in Ha... » Read More

Tor Kwembe
Undergraduate Mentor
Jackson State University
I am a full Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Jackson State University (JSU). I have taught many advanced and undergraduate level mathematics and computer programming courses and published research papers in pure and applied mathemat... » Read More

Ren-Cang Li
Undergraduate 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 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

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

Giovanna Llosent
Undergraduate Mentor
California State University, San Bernardino
I am currently an Assistant Professor at California State University, San Bernardino. I went to graduate school at the University of Iowa and I did my undergraduate work at the University of Costa Rica.... » Read More

Tchavdar Marinov
Undergraduate Mentor
Southwestern University
I have a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Bulgarian Academy of Science and a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from University of Louisiana at Lafayette, two years postdoctoral research in Saitama Institute of Technology, Japan and one year of research ... » Read More

Alberto Marrero
Undergraduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey
I was a graduate student at the University of Iowa, working under the guidance of Professor Paul S. Muhly. I received my Ph.D. degree in May 2005. My interests are in the area of Functional Analysis (AMS category 46L). My work involves interactions betwee... » Read More

Joanna Masel
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Arizona State University
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 possib... » Read More

Pararai Mavis
Undergraduate Mentor
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
I am from Zimbabwe. I obtained my PhD from Central Michigan University in 2006. I taught at Georgia Southern University for 2 years and then moved to Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I would like to see African Americans getting in the field of statist... » 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

Nieves McNulty
Undergraduate Mentor
Columbia College (South Carolina)
I am a professor of mathematics and computing at Columbia College where I was chair of the department for ten years. I have also taught at the University of South Carolina, Aiken. I obtained my undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of the... » Read More

Herbert Antonio Medina
Undergraduate Mentor
Loyola Marymount University
Herbert A. Medina received his B.S. (1985) in Mathematics-Computer Science from UCLA and his Ph.D. (1992) in Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. He has been a faculty member at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) since 1992. His research interests center in ana... » 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

Pablo Negron
Undergraduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Humacao
Professor Negrón received his BS (1978) and MS (1980) from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park (1985). Since 1986, Professor Negrón has been involved in various research projects that ... » Read More

Joe Omojola
Undergraduate Mentor
Southern University, New Orleans
Dr. Joe Omojola is currently a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO). He is also the PI for Enhancement, Enrichment, and Excellence in Mathematics and Science (E3MaS) grant, Campus Coordinator for SUNO's Louisia... » Read More

Reyes M. Ortiz-Albino
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 defe... » 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

Nabendu Pal
Undergraduate Mentor
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
My research interests are in decision theory, reliability and life testing, multivariate analysis, and biostatistics.... » Read More

Stephen Pankavich
Undergraduate 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-Río 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

Gengsheng Qin
Undergraduate Mentor
Georgia State University
I am an associate professor of statistics at Georgia State University. My primary research interests are in biostatistics and mathematical statistics, especially statistical methods in diagnostic medicine and biological research, survival analysis, bootst... » 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

Fred Rispoli
Undergraduate Mentor
Dowling College
My research areas are in the design and analysis of experiments, applied statistics, discrete optimization, and graph theory. I have over 25 publications in these fields and have worked on several NSF grants aimed at nuturing students in mathematics and p... » 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 Río Piedras and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University. Her research interests ... » Read More

Heather Russell
Undergraduate Mentor
Louisiana State University
In July 2009 I completed my Ph.D. in mathematics at The University of Iowa. I am currently a VIGRE post-doc at Louisiana State University. I am a low-dimensional topologist focusing on knot theory. My doctoral research examines certain algebraic varieties... » Read More

Dámaris Santana-Morant
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Dámaris 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, Río Piedras. In the summer... » Read More

Nagambal Shah
Undergraduate Mentor
Spelman College
Nagambal Shah is a senior faculty member of the Spelman College Mathematics Department where she has served for over thirty years. She received her Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Masters in Statistics from India and M.S. and Ph.D. from University of ... » Read More

Robert Stolz
Undergraduate Mentor
University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas
My background is in the areas of probability theory and functional analysis. My previous work was focused on stochastic processes, integration and measures in infinite dimensional vector spaces. I have spent the past three years building on my mathematic... » Read More

Jianzhong Su
Undergraduate 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

Enoch Temple
Undergraduate Mentor
Alabama A&M University
Associate Professor Enoch Temple was awarded the Ph.D. degree in applied statistics with a minor in mathematics. His dissertation topic was " Principal Components Procedures Applied to Discriminant Analysis." Temple has been a participant in nine Summer F... » Read More

Michaela Vancliff
Undergraduate 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

Aghalaya S. Vatsala
Undergraduate Mentor
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
I teach both graduate and undergraduate courses in Mathematics. I mentor both graduate as well as undergraduate students. I area of research is Applied Mathematics, specifically differential equations. Differential equations arise as mathematical models i... » Read More

Oscar Vega
Undergraduate Mentor
California State University, Fresno
I was born and raised in Chile, where I got my Licenciatura in Mathematics and also took a few graduate courses before coming to Iowa for my PhD. There I learned about, and got involved in, minority-supporting activities the math department organized that... » Read More

Leticia Velazquez
Undergraduate Mentor
University of Texas, El Paso
Dr. Leticia Velázquez is the Director of the Computational Science Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). She was born in Juarez, Mexico and moved to El Paso, Texas when sh... » Read More

William Velez
Undergraduate and Graduate Mentor
University of Arizona
William Velez is a Math Alliance Mentor with the University of Arizona.... » 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

Cristina Villalobos
Undergraduate Mentor
University of Texas, Pan American
Dr. Cristina Villalobos received her B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Texas-Austin in 1994 and her Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University in 2000 with thesis advisors Dr. Richard Tapia and Dr. Yin Zhang. She is curre... » 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

Talitha Washington
Undergraduate Mentor
University of Evansville
Dr. Talitha Washington is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Evansville. She has been a professor of mathematics at The College of New Rochelle and a VIGRE Research Associate in the Mathematics Department at Duke University. She ... » Read More

Robin Wilson
Undergraduate Mentor
California Polytechnic State University, Pomona
Robin Wilson was born in Oakland, California and grew up in Sacramento, California. In 1999 he earned his BA in Mathematics from UC Berkeley. He earned a Masters in mathematics from Howard University in 2001 and completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at th... » 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 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

Paul-Hermann Zieschang
Undergraduate Mentor
University of Texas, Brownsville
I am a German Mathematician presently working as a professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Brownsville. I am equally interested in mathematical research and in leading students to mathematical research. My field of interest (research area) ... » Read More