Our applied mathematics department has numerous faculty with varied areas of interest. Whatever your research interest, from optimization to mathematics education, there are numerous faculty you can collaborate with.
Steve Billups, Associate Professor
- Optimization
- Complementarity problems
- Computational biology
Troy Butler, Assistant Professor
- Uncertainty quantification
- Inverse problems
- Error estimation
Varis Carey, Assistant Professor
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Finite Element Methods
- High Performance Computing
Jer-Chin (Luke) Chuang, Instructor
- Applied algebraic topology
- Combinatorial differential geometry
RaKissa Manzanares, Assistant Professor C/T
- Mathematics education
- Number theory
- Geometry
Mike Ferrara, Associate Professor
- Graph Theory
- Combinatorics
Aimé Fournier, Research Associate Professor
- Uncertainty quantification in exploration geophysics
- Meteorological data assimilation
- Analysis of coherent structures in turbulence
- Numerical methods for high-performance computation of partial differential equations
Joshua French, Assistant Professor
- Spatial statistics
- Extreme value theory
- Functional data analysis
- Environmental application
Stephen Hartke, Associate Professor
- Graph theory
- Computational approaches to problems in discrete mathematics
Audrey Hendricks, Assistant Professor
- Precision medicine
- Statistical genetics
- Genomics
- Analysis of big data
Michael Jacobson, Professor
- Graph Theory
- Combinatorics
Mike Kawai, Instructor
- Teaching mathematics to non-math majors
Lance Lana, Instructor
- Mathematics education
- Mathematical modeling
Julien Langou, Professor
- Numerical linear algebra
- Error analysis of algorithms
- Parallel computing
- Numerical analysis
Jan Mandel, Professor
- Supercomputing and parallel methods
- Wildfire modeling
- Data assimilation and inverse problems
- Applied probability on Hilbert spaces
Gary Olson, Senior Instructor
- Mathematics education
- Online learning strategies
- Mathematical modeling
Dmitriy Ostrovskiy, Instructor
- Mathematical modeling
Florian Pfender, Associate Professor
- Applied graph theory
Stephanie Santorico, Professor
- Statistical genetics
- Genetic epidemiology
- Personalized medicine
- Genetics of complex traits
Burt Simon, Associate Professor
- Evolutionary Population Dynamics
- Simulation
- Queueing theory
- Mathematical modeling
Diana White, Associate Professor
- Mathematics education
- Commutative algebra
- Teacher education