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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  (Director of Undergraduate Studies) -  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., TBA, TBA
Office: 623 PGH      Phone: xTBA      Email ID: jcao21@uh.edu , jcao21@central.uh.edu 

Research Interests: TBA

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

Research InterestsTBA

faculty

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: 673 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: 613 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, Associate 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, Assistant 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

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   -   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

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, Associate 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

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

ru

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

sanders

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: 651D PGH      Phone: x3483      Email IDilya , itimofeyev@uh.edu

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

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

Research Interests: Dynamical systems

tucker

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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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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