Faculty Research Interests

Our applied mathematics departme​nt 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 ​​​