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Professors of Mathematics

azencott

AZENCOTT, ROBERTProfessor ("MSDS" Program Scientific Faculty Advisor) - Ph.D., University Paris 1, 1970
Office: 608 PGH      Phone: x3489      Email ID: razencot , razencott@uh.edu

Research Interests: Probability theory, data mining, automatic learning, image analysis

blecher

BLECHER, DAVID, Professor  -  Ph.D., Edinburgh, 1988
Office: 651E PGH      Phone: x3451      Email ID: dblecher , dblecher@uh.edu

Research Interests: Operator algebras and operator theory

bodmann

BODMANN, BERNHARD, Professor  (Department Chair) - Ph.D.,University of Florida, 2001
Office: 641A PGH      Phone: x3581      Email ID: bgb , bgb@uh.edu

Research Interests: Functional and harmonic analysis, frame theory and uncertainty principles

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CAO, JIAN, Assistant Professor  -   Ph.D., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2020
Office: 623 PGH      Phone: xTBA      Email ID: jcao21@uh.edu , jcao21@central.uh.edu 

Research Interests: Computational statistics, spatial statistics, gaussian processes, multivariate processes, bayesian optimization

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CAPPANERA, LOÏC, Assistant Professor    -   Ph.D., Paris-Sud University (Orsay, France), 2015
Office: 602 PGH      Phone: x3500      Email ID: lcappan , lmcappan@central.uh.edu

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics, scientific computing, numerical analysis and finite element method. applications to multiphase flows, porous media and magnetohydrodynamics

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CHARON, NICOLAS, Assistant Professor    -   Ph.D., ENS Cachan, 2013
Office: 669 PGH      Phone: x3500      Email ID: ncharon@central.uh.edu

Research Interests: Morphological shape analysis and geometric methods for applications to medical imaging and computational anatomy. Special interests: mathematical and numerical models for the representation, registration and statistical analysis of geometric structures occuring in the anatomy and in biology

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CLIMENHAGA, VAUGHN, Professor   -   Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2010
Office: 665 PGH      Phone: x0189      Email ID: climenha , vclimenhaga@uh.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical systems and ergodic theory

etgen

ETGEN, GARRET, Professor  ("MAM" Program Scientific Faculty Advisor) -  Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1964
Office: 695 PGH      Phone: x3510      Email ID: etgen , etgen@uh.edu

Research Interests: Ordinary differential equations

Fitzgibbon

FITZGIBBON, WILLIAM, Professor -  Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1972
Office: 214 PGH        Email: fitz@uh.edu

Research Interests: Partial differential equations, applied mathematics, mathematical biology

Fu

FU, WENJIANG, Professor   -   Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1998
Office: 684 PGH      Phone: x7279      Email ID: fuw , wfu3@uh.edu

Research Interests: Statistical modeling and computation, variable selection through regularization, modeling sparse data and high dimensional data, cancer mortality data, marketing data and genome data analysis

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GAO, LI, Assistant Professor    -   Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018
Office: TBA      Phone: x2454     Email ID: lgao20@Central.UH.EDU

Research Interests: Quantum information theory, operator algebras, noncommutative analysis

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HAYNES, ALAN, Professor  (Director of Graduate Studies)  -   Ph.D., UT Austin, 2006
Office: 651D PGH      Email ID: haynes , akhaynes2@uh.edu 

Research Interests: Dynamical systems, probability theory, number theory

jiwen

HE, JIWEN, Professor  -  Ph.D., University of Paris VI, 1994
Office: 604 PGH      Phone: x3481      Email ID: jiwenhe , jhe4@uh.edu

Research Interests: Numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and control theory

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HE, YUNHUI, Assistant Professor   -   Ph.D., Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2018
Office: 604      Phone: TBA     Email ID: yhe43@central.uh.edu

Research Interests: Numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, multigrid methods, local fourier analysis

Gordon

HEIER, GORDON, Professor  -   Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), Bochum University, 2002
Office: 666 PGH      Email ID: heier , gheier@uh.edu 

Research Interests: Algebraic geometry, complex analysis, differential geometry, and number theory

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JARAMILLO, GABRIELA, Associate Professor    -   Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2015
Office: 622 PGH      Phone: xTBA      Email ID: gabriela , gtjaramillo@uh.edu

Research Interests: Nonlinear PDE, pattern forming systems, nonlocal equations

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JEON, HYEONGSEON, Assistant Professor   -   Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2022
Office: 629 PGH      Phone: x4428     Email ID: hsjeon@central.uh.edu

Research Interests: Multiple testing problem, gene expression data analysis, machine learning algorithm, and data visualization

shanyu

JI, SHANYU, Professor   -   Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1988
Office: 667 PGH      Phone: x3454      Email ID: shanyuji , shanyuji@uh.edu

Research Interests: Complex analysis, differential geometry

kresimir

JOSIĆ, KREŠIMIR, Professor    Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1999
Office: 624 PGH      Phone: x3485      Email ID: josic , kjosic@uh.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical systems, mathematical biology, mathematical and computational neuroscience

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JUN, MIKYOUNG, Professor   ConocoPhillips Professor of Data Science ("MSDS" Program Director and Faculty Advisor)

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005
Office: 601 PGH      Phone: x7841      Email ID: mjun@Central.UH.EDU

Research Interests: Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics and application to climate and social science problems, climate model validation, covariance models for global data

Mehrdad

KALANTAR, MEHRDAD, Associate Professor  (Director of Undergraduate Studies) -   Ph.D., Carleton University, 2011
Office: 627 PGH      Phone: x0780       Email IDkalantar , mkalantar@uh.edu

Research Interests: Operator algebras, locally compact quantum groups, ergodic theory on (quantum) groups

kao

KAO, EDWARD, Professor   -   Ph.D., Stanford, 1971
Office: 629 PGH      Phone: x3456      Email ID: edkao , ekao@uh.edu

Research Interests: Stochastic processes, financial mathematics

Demetrio

LABATE, DEMETRIO, Professor -   Ph.D., Georgia Institute of technology, 2000
Office: 694 PGH      Phone: x3492      Email IDdlabate , dlabate@uh.edu

Research Interests: Harmonic analysis, signal and image processing, time-frequency analysis, wavelets

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LUTSKO, CHRISTOPHER, Assistant Professor   -   Ph.D., University of Bristol, 2020
Office: 613 PGH      Phone: x3500      Email ID: clutsko@uh.edu

Research Interests: Probability theory, applied probability, dynamical systems

Alexander

MAMONOV, ALEXANDER, Associate Professor   -   Ph.D., Rice University, 2010
Office: 690 PGH      Phone: x0297      Email IDmamonov , avmamonov@uh.edu

Research Interests: Numerical analysis, applied mathematics, inverse Problems, model order reduction

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MANG, ANDREAS, Associate Professor   -   Ph.D., University of Luebeck, 2013.
Office: 614 PGH      Phone: x7409       Email ID: andreas , amang@uh.edu

Research Interests: Parallel scientific computing; inverse problems; numerical optimization; medical image computing

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MORGAN, JEFF, Professor    Associate Provost for Education Innovation and Technology at UH

Ph.D., University of Houston, 1986
Email ID: jmorgan , jjmorgan@Central.UH.EDU

Research Interests: Reaction diffusion systems

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NEUHAUSER, CLAUDIA, Professor -  Associate Vice President/Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology Transfer

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990
Email: cmneuhau@Central.UH.EDU 

Research Interests: Spatial stochastic processes, theoretical ecology, role of space in community dynamics, theoretical population genetics, coalescent theory, statistical genomics

matt

NICOL, MATTHEWProfessor    Ph.D., Stanford, 1992
Office: 210 PGH      Phone: x6181      Email ID: nicol , mnicol2@uh.edu

Research Interests: Ergodic theory and dynamical systems

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NIU, YABO, Assistant Professor    -   Ph.D., Texas A&M, 2019.
Office: TBD      Phone: xTBD       Email ID: yniu4@Central.UH.EDU

Research Interests: Statistics, applied probability, and data science in population health

Omalley

O'MALLEY, MATTHEW, Professor   -   Ph.D., Florida State, 1967
Office: 616 PGH      Phone: x3487      Email ID: momalley , momalley@uh.edu

Research Interests: Algebra

Maxim

OLSHANSKII, MAXIM, Professor   -   Ph.D., Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1996
Office: 664 PGH      Phone: x3470      Email IDmolshan , maolshanskiy@uh.edu

Research Interests: Numerical analysis, multigrid methods, numerical linear algebra with application to solving partial differential equations and computational fluid dynamics

faculty

ONOFREI, DANIEL, Professor   -   Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2007
Office: 632 PGH      Phone: x3410      Email ID: onofrei , dtonofrei@uh.edu 

Research Interests: Applied mathematics, acoustics and electromagnetism with focus on inverse problems, optimal control and theory of composites

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OTT, WILLIAM, Professor   -   Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2004
Office: 603 PGH      Phone: x0398      Email ID: ott , wrott@uh.edu 

Research Interests: Dynamical systems, analysis

Pan

PAN, TSORNG-WHAY, Professor   -   Ph.D., Minnesota, 1990
Office: 683 PGH      Phone: x3448      Email ID: pan , tpan@uh.edu

Research Interests: Fluid/particle interaction, blood cell motion in microchannel, computational fluid dynamics, scientific computing, numerical Analysis

manos

PAPADAKIS, MANOS, Professor   -   Ph.D., University of Athens, Greece, 1993
Office: 681 PGH      Phone: x3449      Email ID: mpapadak , epapadakis@uh.edu

Research Interests: Wavelet analysis, frame theory and sparse representations in multidimensions, neuroscience image analysis, face recognition, biomedical imaging

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PEREPELITSA, MIKHAIL, Professor   -   Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2004
Office: 621 PGH      Phone: x3484      Email ID: misha , maperepelitsa@uh.edu 

Research Interests: Analysis of PDEs

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PUELZ, CHARLES, Assistant Professor  -   Ph.D., TBA, TBA.
Office: TBA PGH      Phone: x3500      Email ID: cepuelz@uh.edu

Research Interests: computational modeling with applications to life science and medicine

quaini

QUAINI, ANNALISA, Professor (Associate Chair) -   Ph.D., Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2008.
Office: 662 PGH      Phone: x3491      Email ID: quaini , aquaini@uh.edu 

Research Interests: Finite element method, computational fluid dynamics, hemodynamics, fluid-structure interaction

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RU, MIN, Professor   -   Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1990
Office: 674 PGH      Phone: x3477      Email ID: minru , mru@uh.edu

Research Interests: Complex analysis, differential geometry

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SANDERS, RICHARD, Associate Professor   -   Ph.D., UCLA, 1981
Office: 689 PGH      Phone: x3447      Email ID: sanders , rsanders@uh.edu 

Research Interests: Numerical solutions of partial differential equations

Ilya

TIMOFEYEV, ILYA, Professor   -   Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1998
Office: 673 PGH      Phone: x3483      Email IDilya , itimofeyev@uh.edu

Research Interests: Nonlinear stochastic behavior and statistical properties of spatially extended systems (PDE's)

faculty

TÖRÖK, ANDREW, Professor   -   Ph.D., Penn State, 1995
Office: 672 PGH      Phone: x3478      Email ID: torok , atorok@uh.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical systems

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TUCKER, CHARLES, Associate Professor   -   Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1966
Office:Fleming 11E     Phone: x3461      Email ID: ctucker , ctucker@uh.edu 

Research Interests: Functional analysis

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VERSHYNINA, ANNA, Associate Professor     Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2012.
Office: 634 PGH      Phone: x7341      Email ID: anna , avershynina@uh.edu

Research Interests: Quantum information theory, operator theory, quantum spin systems

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WANG, MIN, Assistant Professor  -  Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2019
Office: 693      Phone: xTBD      Email ID: mwang55@Central.UH.EDU

Research Interests: Computational mathematics, deep learning, reduced-order modeling, multiscale Methods

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ZHONG, MING, Assistant Professor  -  Ph.D., TBA, TBA
Office: TBD      Phone: xTBD      Email ID: mzhong4@uh.edu

Research Interests: Applied mathematics with focus on interacting agent systems

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ZHONG, PING, Associate Professor  -  Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington, 2014
Office: 671      Phone: xTBD      Email ID: pzhong@central.uh.edu

Research Interests: Free probability, operator algebras, random matrix theory, and applications to quantum information theory and statistics

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WU, THÉRÈSE YINGYING, Assistant Professor    -   Ph.D., UT Austin, 2019
Office: TBD      Phone: xTBD      Email ID: ywu68@Central.UH.EDU

Research InterestsDifferential geometry, evolutionary biology, machine learning

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