Troy Butler

Dr. Butler received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering (2003) and his M.S. (2005) and Ph.D. (2009) in Mathematics from Colorado State University. From 2009-12, Dr. Butler was a Postdoctoral Research fellow studying uncertainty quantification for hurricane storm surge simulations in the Computational Hydraulics Group housed within the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. From 2012-13, Dr. Butler was a Research Scientist in the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University.

Since Fall 2013, Dr. Butler has been a professor (obtaining the rank of full Professor in 2023) of mathematics at CU Denver, which has included various leadership roles such as serving as the Director for the university's Center for Computational Mathematics as well as the Associate Chair for his department. From 2023-2025, Dr. Butler was on detail at the National Science Foundation where he served as a Program Director for various programs including Computational Mathematics, the Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, and Research Experiences for Undergraduates. Dr. Butler's own research in uncertainty quantification has been funded through various grants from the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy.

In the summer of 2025, Dr. Butler began serving as the Associate Dean of Research and Creative Activities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at CU Denver. In this role, Dr. Butler works to promote the research and creative activities of the faculty. His responsibilities include oversight of sponsored programs within CLAS as well as the development of policies and programs to enhance faculty research opportunities and facilitation of research connections across departments, colleges, and campuses. Dr. Butler seeks to expand and enhance research and creative activities by graduate and undergraduate students and scholarly collaboration between students and faculty.