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Dr. Eugenio Aulisa | Electronic mail | Office: MA 226 | 806-834-6684 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 2005 Academy of Bologna
	Research Interests: Applied Mathematics, Computational Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Numerical Analysis, and Partial Differential Equations Dr. Eugenio Aulisa graduated in Nuclear Engineering science from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2001 and obtained his Ph.D. in Energetic, Nuclear and Environmental Control Engineering from the same establishment in 2005. His outset engagement at Texas Tech was equally a Visiting Assistant Professor earlier entering a tenure-track position in 2007. His primary research interests are in Computational fluid mechanics, including modeling and simulation of multiphase flows and fluid-construction interaction problems, non-linear analysis of fluid flow filtration in porous media, and multigrid solvers with domain decomposition methods.
Dr. Giorgio Bornia | Email | Office: MA 225 | 806-834-8754 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 2012 University of Bologna
	Research Interests: optimal control; numerical analysis; scientific calculating; fluid dynamics; Applied Mathematics; Differential Equations; Mathematical Physics Dr. Giorgio Bornia earned his Ph.D. from the Academy of Bologna in 2012. He joined Texas Tech with a visiting position in Fall 2012 and was appointed assistant professor in Autumn 2013. His research interests include: optimal command for partial differential equations; multi-physics problems in fluid dynamics, such as magnetohydrodynamics and fluid-structure interaction; finite element multigrid and domain decomposition methods; scientific computing.
Dr. Lars Christensen | Email | Office: WK 347 | 806-834-6323 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 1999 University of Copenhagen
	Research Interests: Algebra Lars Winther Christensen graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1995 and obtained his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1999. Afterward this he worked with telecommunications and crypto software development. In 2004 Lars went to University of Nebraska as visiting professor, and in 2007 he joined Texas Tech University. Lars' research is in algebra; his interests focus an applications of homological and homotopical algebra to ring theory. Lars is the writer of a monograph on Gorenstein homological dimensions and currently writing another volume on derived category methods in commutative algebra.
Dr. Jay Conover | E-mail | Office: MA 105 | 806-834-1546 | Website Horn Professor | Ph.D. 1964 Cosmic University of America, Washington D.C.
	Inquiry Interests: Statistics Before getting his Ph.D. in mathematical statistics at Cosmic University in Washington D. C., 1964, Dr. Conover taught as a TA at Iowa State University, and every bit an Teacher at the U.Southward. Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland. His first tenure track position was at Kansas State Academy, where he taught in the Statistics Section for 9 � years before joining the Texas Tech Section of Mathematics and Statistics in 1973. His research interests are in applied statistics, and especially in nonparametric methods. He is a Highly Cited Researcher according to ISI, with over 30,000 citations to his books and papers. He has consulted with various pharmaceutical companies, and has washed extensive consulting with several national laboratories including specially Los Alamos, Sandia in Albuquerque, Hanford Lab in Richland Washington, and Oak Ridge Lab in Tennessee. He has held visiting positions at the University of California at Davis, and the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He is listed in Who�s Who in America, and Who�due south Who in the World.
Dr. Leif Ellingson | Email | Office: MA 251 | 806-834-5836 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 2011 Florida Country University
	Enquiry Interests: Statistics and Geometric Shape Analysis Leif Ellingson joined the department as an assistant professor in the fall of 2011. Prior to this, he completed a Ph.D. in statistics at Florida State University in the summer of 2011 and an M.S. from the same institution in 2009. Previously, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Maryland in 2007. Dr. Ellingson�s dissertation research was in shape analysis with a focus on computationally efficient nonparametric methodology in awarding to the report of planar contours and structural proteomics. In addition to expanding upon those projects, his electric current inquiry interests include statistics on manifolds and sample spaces with manifold stratification, as well as statistical applications in bioinformatics and computational biology.
Dr. Razvan Gelca | Email | Office: MA 229 | 806-834-5499 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 1997 University of Iowa
	Research Interests: Topology Razvan Gelca received his Available's Degree at University of Timisoara and his Masters Degree at Academy of Bucharest. Afterwards working for ane yr at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, he went for doctoral studies at University of Iowa. After graduation he had a three yr postdoc at University of Michigan and then came to Texas Tech University.
Dr. Bijoy Ghosh | Email | Office: MA 117H | 806-834-4316 | Website Dick and Martha Brooks Endowed Professor | Ph.D. 1983 Harvard Academy
	Research Interests: Applied Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Control Theory, Geometry, and Mathematical Biology Bijoy K. Ghosh received the B.Tech. and K.Tech. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani, and the Indian Establish of Engineering, Kanpur, Bharat, and the Ph.D. degree in Practical Mathematics from the Determination and Control Group of the Division of Practical Sciences, Harvard Academy, Cambridge, MA, in 1977, 1979, and 1983, respectively. From 1983 to 2006, he has been a kinesthesia member in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington Academy, St. Louis, MO, as a professor, and directed the centre for BioCybernetics and Intelligent Systems. Before long he is a Dick and Martha Brooks Endowed Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. Bijoy received the American Automated Control Council's Donald Eckman Laurels in 1988 in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of Automatic Control. He received the United Nations Development Programme Consultancy in India nether the TOKTEN program in 1993, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science invitation fellowship for research in Japan in 1997. In the yr 2000, he became a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Technology for cardinal contributions to System Theory with applications to robust command, vision and multi sensor fusion. Bijoy is a fellow member of the editorial board of The IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He has held visiting bookish positions at the Yale University, USA; Universita di Padova, Italy; Institut Mittag-Leffler and Regal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Tokyo Found of Technology and Osaka University, Nihon. He is a permanent visiting professor at the Tokyo Denki University, Saitama, Japan and Technical University of Munich, Federal republic of germany.
Dr. Wei Guo | Electronic mail | Office: MA 232 | 806-834-4256 | Website Assistant Professor | Ph.D. 2014 University of Houston
	Research Interests: Numerical Assay, Scientific Computing, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Plasma Simulations Wei Guo received his Ph.D. caste in applied mathematics from the University of Houston in 2014. He was a visiting banana professor at� Michigan State University before joining Texas Tech University. His research involves developing and analyzing efficient and loftier order accurate numerical algorithms and their applications to diverse fields, such as fluid dynamics and plasma physics. His recent work focuses on high order semi-Lagrangian methods for transport issues and high order sparse grid schemes for high-dimensional fractional differential equations.
Dr. Alastair Hamilton | Email | Part: MA 248 | 806-834-5919 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 2005 Bristol Academy
	Inquiry Interests: Algebra, Geometry, Mathematical Physics, and Topology Alastair Hamilton joined the mathematics department in the fall of 2010. Prior to this, he spent three years at the University of Connecticut as a postdoctoral fellow and a year at the Max Planck Institut fur Mathematic in Bonn, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol in 2005 and his master's degree from the same institution in 2002. His inquiry interests lie in algebra and topology. His inquiry explores the connections betwixt these areas and parts of mathematical physics, such as quantum field theory.
Dr. Raegan Higgins | Electronic mail | Office: MA 203 | 806-834-1747 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 2008 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	Enquiry Interests: Applied Mathematics, Dynamic Equations, Ordinary Differential Equations, Time Scales, and Outreach Programs Raegan Higgins' research is in time scales; her interests focus on oscillation criteria for certain linear and nonlinear second social club dynamic equations. She is besides interested in applications of time scales to biology, economic science, applied science, and statistics. Additionally, Dr. Higgins is involved in funded projects focused on Stalk outreach with an accent in increasing minorities in STEM. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Xavier University of Louisiana in 2002 and her Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2008.
Dr. Luan Hoang | Electronic mail | Office: MA 208 | 806-834-3060 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 2005 Texas A&M University
	Research Interests: Fractional Differential Equations Luan T Hoang received his Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and in Information Technology from National Academy, Hochiminh city, Vietnam, in 1997. He received his Master's degree from Arizona State University in 2000, and Ph.D. degree from Texas A&Thou University in 2005. His research interests are partial differential equations, dynamical systems and fluid dynamics.
Dr. Victoria Howle | Email | Role: MA 117D | 806-834-8770 | Website Acquaintance Professor | Ph.D. 2001 Cornell University
	Research Interests: Applied Mathematics, Computational Mathematics, Numerical Analysis Victoria Howle's enquiry is in practical mathematics with a focus mainly on numerical linear algebra. Her master enquiry interests are currently in physics-based preconditioning for incompressible fluid flow problems, scalable preconditioners for implicit Runge-Kutta methods, and machine learning algorithms. Dr. Howle received her Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Cornell University in 2001, worked as a inquiry mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories from 2000 to 2007, and so joined the TTU mathematics department in 2007.
Dr. Ram Iyer | Electronic mail | Office: MA 204 | 806-834-3872 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 1999 Academy of Maryland, College Park
	Research Interests: Applied Mathematics, Analysis, Computational Mathematics, Control Theory, Geometry, Mathematical Biological science, Mathematical Physics, Ordinary Differential Equations, and Bespeak Processing Ram Iyer'southward research interests are very broad and encompass several areas. He is currently working on the design of contact lenses for patients with keratoconus. This project encompasses the areas of eyes, low Reynolds number fluid dynamics, inverse problems, and some statistics. Some of his most indelible inquiry areas include modeling, assay, identification, and control of systems with hysteresis. Other research areas Dr. Iyer has worked on include optimal control of systems on Riemannian manifolds, inertial navigation systems for micro air vehicles based on insect vision, and trajectory planning problems for micro air vehicles.
Dr. Sophia Jang | Email | Role: MA 202 | 806-834-7006 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 1990 Texas Tech University
	Research Interests: Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Biology Sophia R.-J. Jang received her Ph.D. in 1990 from Texas Tech University. She joined Texas Tech as an acquaintance professor in Fall of 2008. Before returning to Tech, she was a faculty member at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her primary research activities are in mathematical biology and applied mathematics.
Dr. Lourdes Juan | Email | Role: MA 210 | 806-834-1416 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 2000 Academy of Oklahom
	Research Interests: Computer Algebra, Differential Algebra, Computational Mathematics, Mathematical Biology, Dynamical Systems, Symbolic Integration, Algorithmic Methods in Mathematics and Optimization Lourdes Juan received an undergraduate caste with honors (Titulo de Oro) in Mathematics from the Academy of Havana in 1991. From 1991-1995 she worked first every bit a trainee and and so equally a research resident in the department of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. In 1995 she was granted the kickoff student visa that the Usa government gave in Cuba since the 1960's to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Oklahoma. She graduated with a PhD in Mathematics in 2000 under the direction of Professor Andy Magid. She was a Postdoctoral Beau at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley during 2000-2001, and joined the Math Department of Texas Tech in the Fall of 2001 every bit an assistant professor. She is currently an associate professor with tenure. Her enquiry interests include the Galois Theory of differential and difference equations, algebraic groups and computer algebra.
Dr. Amanda Laubmeier | E-mail | Office: MA 117B | (806) 834-7645 | Website Banana Professor | Ph.D. 2018 Due north Carolina State University
	Research Interests: Biomathematics Amanda Laubmeier joined Texas Tech in 2020.  Before that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Academy of Nebraska-Lincoln and received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina Country Academy.  She conducts research in population ecology, working closely with collaborators in the biological sciences.  Her expertise is in developing mathematical models and leveraging empirical observations to accost awarding-level concerns.  She is specially interested in insect communities and efficient use of ecological data.  She is also involved with scientific outreach and mathematical inclusivity.
Dr. Arne Ledet | Email | Function: MA 206 | 806-834-8663 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 1996 University of Copenhagen
	Inquiry Interests: Algebra Arne Ledet graduated from University of Copenhagen (Denmark) in 1992, and obtained his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1996. His subsequent postdoctoral employment included stays at Queen's University (Canada), MSRI (Us), Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan), and University of Waterloo (Canada), before he came to Texas Tech in 2002 as Assistant Professor. His graduate and postgraduate work was in Galois theoretical embedding issues. Currently, his enquiry is concerned with the related problem of amalgam generic polynomials for Galois extensions. He is the co-writer of a volume on this subject, "Generic Polynomials" (with C. U. Jensen and N. Yui), published in 2002.
Dr. Jeffrey M Lee | E-mail | Office: MA 239 | 806-834-1215 | Website Acquaintance Professor | Ph.D. 1987 University of California, Los Angeles
	Inquiry Interests: Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis Jeffrey M. Lee received his B.South. from Brigham Immature University in 1982 and his G.A. and Ph.D. from University of California (Los Angeles) in 1984 and 1987, resp. He came to Texas Tech as an assistant professor in 1990 and, in 1996, he was appointed equally an associate professor.
Dr. W. Brent Lindquist | Email | Role: 104 | 806-834-7282 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 1981 Cornell University
	Research Interests: Oil Extraction is Affair of Mathematics, Physics, and Applied Math Dr Lindquist is the previous Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and an applied mathematician. His interests have included numerical methods for PDEs; flow in porous media; automated 3D image assay for porous media, neuron, and cobweb analyses; Riemann issues in 2D; bureaucracy germination in �social beast groups; and numerical solution of Feynman diagrams. He is a co-recipient of the Lee Segal prize from the Club of Mathematical Biology
Dr. Ruiqi Liu | Email | Office: MA 235 | (806) 834-8498 | Website Assistant Professor | Ph.D. 2018 SUNY Binghamton
	Research Interests: Semi/Nonparametric Methods, Econometrics, Panel Data Models, Statistical Auto/DeepLearning, Graph Network Model Ruiqi Liu joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University in Fall 2020.  He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Binghamton University in Spring 2018 and worked every bit a postdoctoral boyfriend at Indiana University-Purdue Academy Indianapolis from Fall 2018 to Spring 2020.  Earlier coming to the Usa, Ruiqi received a dual Bachelor'southward degree in Mathematics and Management from Sun Yat-sen Academy in 2013.  Ruiqi'south research lies in the interactions of statistics, econometrics, and automobile/deep learning.  He aims to provide provable statistical procedures to solve real-world problems.  Ruiqi's recent piece of work includes semi/nonparametric models, pattern recognization in console data models, and nomenclature problems.
Dr. Katharine Long | Email | Office: MA 102 | | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 1991 Princeton
	Research Interests: Applied Mathematics, Computational Mathematics, and Numerical Analysis Dr. Long's inquiry is in scientific computing: ranging from work on developing efficient mathematical algorithms for large calibration simulation and optimization, to the design of advanced software architectures for high-operation simulation, to application of computational simulation to problems in physics, engineering, biology, and national defence force. Dr. Long joined Texas Tech in 2007 afterward nine years in the computational mathematics research department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. Previously, she worked in industry at Beam Technologies, was on the physics faculty at the State Academy of New York at Brockport, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts. Her undergraduate caste is in astronomy from the University of Maryland. Her graduate report was at Princeton University where she received a PhD in theoretical astrophysics in 1991.
Dr. Tao Tom Lu | Email | Office: MA 222 | 806-834-2457 Associate Chair and Professor | Ph.D. 2011 University of Rochester
	Research Interests: Bayesian methodology, Parametric and nonparametric mixed furnishings models, Longitudinal data analysis, Articulation models for longitudinal and survival information, Computational statistics, Latent class analysis, Latent transition analysis, Dynamic network modeling, Missing and measurement error information modeling, High dimensional dynamic model selection, Big data analysis, Infectious diseases modeling, High throughput genomics information analysis
Dr. Dermot McCarthy | Email | Office: MA 247 | 806-834-0191 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 2010 Academy Higher Dublin
	Research Interests: Number Theory and Special Functions Dermot McCarthy joined the department in the autumn of 2013.  Prior to this, he spent three years in a visiting position at Texas A&K University.  Dr. McCarthy received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from University Higher Dublin, Ireland, in 2010.  His research interests lie in number theory and special functions with particular focus on automorphic forms, hypergeometric functions and backdrop of algebraic varieties.
Dr. Chris Monico | Email | Office: MA 252 | 806-834-4144 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 2002 University of Notre Dame
	Enquiry Interests: Algebra and Cryptography Chris Monico received a B.S. in mathematics from Monmouth Academy, and the degrees of M.Due south. and Ph.D. from the Academy of Notre Matriarch. For the academic year 2002 Chris was a postdoctoral researcher at Notre Matriarch, before coming to Texas Tech in 2003. Dr. Monico's research has been primarily concerned with cryptology and certain computational algebra and number theoretic problems.
Dr. Alvaro Pampano | Email | Function: MA 219 | (806) 834-6525 | Website Assistant Professor | Ph.D. 2018 University of the Basque Country
	Inquiry Interests: Differential Geometry, Calculus of Variations After receiving his Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of the Basque Country, Alvaro Pampano spent 2 years as a postdoc at Idaho State University.  His research interests include the Geometric Calculus of Variations for curves and surfaces.
Dr. Dmitri Pavlov | Email | Office: MA 117C | 806-834-1973 | Website Banana Professor | Ph.D. 2011 University of California, Berkeley
	Research Interests: Homotopy Theory, Higher Differential Geometry, D-modules and Mixed Hodge Modules, Factorization Algebras, Functorial Breakthrough Field Theory, Tomita—Takesaki Theory Dmitri Pavlov joined the department as an assistant professor in 2017. His research explores connections betwixt quantum field theory, homotopy theory and college category theory, and differential and algebraic geometry. It includes areas such as model categories and abstract homotopy theory, differential, equivariant, and twisted cohomology theories, motivic homotopy theory, D-modules and mixed Hodge modules, factorization algebras, functorial field theory, and Tomita-Takesaki theory.
Dr. Angela Peace | Email | Office: MA 243 | 806-834-1014 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 2014 Arizona Country University
	Research Interests: Mathematical Biological science Angela Peace received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University in 2014. Prior to coming to TTU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Constitute of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her research in Mathematical Biology provides quantitative and qualitative improvements in the predictive power of theoretical and computational population ecology. She uses dynamical systems theory and tools to develop, analyze, and interpret mathematical models of biological systems, spanning the fields of environmental, toxicology, and epidemiology.
Dr. Stamatis Pouliasis | Email | Office: MA 217 | | Website Assistant Professor | Ph.D. 2011 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
	Research Interests: Potential Theory and Complex Analysis Stamatis Pouliasis received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hellenic republic in 2011. Since 2012 he has been working as a postdoctoral fellow in different universities across multiple continents. His main interests are in circuitous analysis and potential theory; in item, capacity, harmonic measure, conformal and quasiconformal mappings, symmetrization, spaces of analytic functions. He started at Texas Tech University Jan 2018 working equally postdoctoral fellow in the Section of Mathematics and Statistics.
Dr. Svetlozar Rachev | Email | Office: MA 238A | 806-742-2566 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 1979 Lomonozov University, Moscow
	Research Interests: Finance, Econometrics, Probability, Statistics, and Actuarial Sciences Dr. Zari Rachev joined the department as a Visiting Professor in Spring 2017, and as a Full Professor with Tenure Fall 2017. Prior to coming to Texas Tech he was the Co-Director of the Quantitative Finance Program at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Lomonosov University, Moscow, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, October 12, 1979. Dr. Rachev studies Quantitative Finance, Econometrics, Probability, Statistics, and Actuarial Sciences. As of February 2018, Dr. Rachev'south Google Scholar Profile shows 13,759 citations, and an h-index of 56.
Dr. Lawrence Schovanec | Email | Office: MA 212 | | Website Professor and University President | Ph.D. 1982 Indiana Academy
	Research Interests: Solid Mechanics, Boundary Value Problems, Differential and Integral Equations Lawrence Schovanec joined the faculty of Texas Tech Academy in 1982. He received a B.S. degree from Phillips University, a M.S. caste from Texas A&M University, and his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He has been a professor of mathematics since 1996 and he served equally chair of the Section of Mathematics and Statistics from 1999 to 2008. His early research dealt mainly with solid mechanics with an emphasis on dynamic fracture of elastic and viscoelastic materials. More recently his work has dealt with control theoretic aspects of biological systems and hybrid parameter models of biomechanical systems. In 2008 he was appointed as the Interim Dean of the Higher of Arts and Sciences and in 2010 every bit the Dean. In 2012, he was appointed every bit the Acting President of Texas Tech University. In 2013, he served equally Interim Provost. He is currently serving equally President of the University.
Dr. Alexander Solynin | Email | Function: MA 231 | 806-834-7280 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 1985 Institute of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
	Research Interests: Complex Analysis, Potential Theory, and Qualitative Theory of Partial Differential Equations Alexander Solynin received his Diplom (with honors) in Mathematics in 1980 from the Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russian federation and his Ph.D. in 1985 from the Plant of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Donetsk. From 1983 to 1989, he was an assistant professor of mathematics and from 1989 to 1990, an associate professor at the Kuban State University in Krasnodar, Russia. In 1990, Dr. Solynin joined the Steklov Establish of Mathematics at Saint petersburg, Russian federation, where he was a senior research fellow from 1993 to 2004. He came to Texas Tech University in Fall 2004 as an acquaintance professor.
Dr. James Surles | Email | Office: MA 103 | 806-834-4729 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 1999 University of South Carolina
	Research Interests: Applied Statistics, Reliability and Survival Analysis, and Statistics James G. Surles received B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Estimator Scientific discipline from McNeese Country University in 1995 and an K.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of S Carolina in 1997 and 1999, respectively. Dr. Surles came to Texas Tech University in 1999, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His main inquiry interests are Reliability and the Exponentiated Weibull and Burr blazon X lifetime models, merely he also enjoys working with researchers from around Texas Tech on a diversity of research projects.
Dr. Magdalena Toda | Email | Function: MA 201A | 806-742-2566 | Website Professor & Department Chair | Ph.D. 2000 University of Kansas
	Inquiry Interests: Geometry, Integrable Systems, Mathematical Physics, and Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations Magdalena Toda came to the Texas Tech Academy in 2001 as an Assistant Professor. Her main research interests are in differential geometry and related integrable systems. She is specially interested in geometric solutions of fractional differential equations, in item non-linear PDEs which ascend from integrable systems. Fluid flows, studied from a geometric view point, represent i of her research interests since 2004. Appointed to Departmental Chair as of March 1, 2016.
Dr. Hung Tran | Email | Part: MA 216 | | Website Assistant Professor | Ph.D. 2014 Cornell Academy
	Inquiry Interests: Differential Geometry, Minimal Surfaces, Einstein Structures, 4-D Manifolds, Ricci flow, Harnack inequalities, and Applications of Geometry in Math Bio and Data Scientific discipline From a small village in Vietnam, Hung Tran obtained his bachelor degree from Berea College in Kentucky and in 2014 received his PhD degree in mathematics from Cornell University. He was a visiting assistant professor at the University of California at Irvine earlier joining Texas Tech Academy in 2017. His inquiry lies at the interface of geometry and assay with potential applications to mathematical physics, math bio, and data science. In other words, he utilizes belittling techniques (aka PDE) to investigate geometric equilibrium configurations. His contempo work focuses on generalized Willmore and minimal surfaces, Einstein structures, and spectral analysis.
Dr. Alex Trindade | Email | Office: MA 228 | 806-834-6164 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 2000 Colorado Land University
	Research Interests: Statistics A. Alexandre Trindade earned a B.Southward. in Mathematics from the Academy of Southampton (U.1000.) in 1988. He left Europe before long thereafter to pursue graduate studies in the U.S., completing an One thousand.A. in Mathematics at the Academy of Oklahoma in 1992. He worked as a programmer for the IBM Corporation in Dallas (Texas) for two years, before returning to graduate school in 1995. In 2000 he received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Colorado Land University. From 2000 to 2007, Dr. Trindade was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He joined Texas Tech's Department of Mathematics and Statistics in Fall 2007. His primary inquiry interests include: fourth dimension series; multivariate volatility modeling; country-space models and longitudinal data; saddle point-based bootstrap methodology and applications; asymptotic theory and higher-order approximations. His work on saddle point-based bootstrap has been funded by the National Security Agency. Dr. Trindade has extensive consulting experience; in 2003-04 he was the primary statistical consultant on a reliability projection with The Boeing Company funded by DARPA, and in 2005 was contracted by Encision, Inc., for a reliability written report on medical devices.
Dr. Dimitri Volchenkov | Email | Office: MA 244 | 806-834-1920 | Website Acquaintance Professor | Ph.D. 1996 Saint Petersburg State University (Russia)
	Inquiry Interests: Applied Mathematics, Data Assay In 2007 in Marseille, France, Dr. Volchenkov was awarded 50'Habilitation � diriger des recherches at the Eye de Physique Thursday�orique, and habilitated at the University of Bielefeld in Frg in 2010. He is an applied mathematician working in the field of data analysis, stochastic non-linear dynamics, complexity and uncertainty in real-earth systems. His interdisciplinary research agenda ranges from plasma turbulence and seismic sea wave waves, to the distribution of urban poverty, homo behavior and communication patterns, models of political and biological evolution, and conclusion making under dubiousness.
Dr. Alex Wang | Email | Office: MA 236 | 806-834-7626 | Website Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies | Ph.D. 1989 Arizona State University
	Research Interests: System and Control Theory Alex Wang received his B.S. and M.South. from Northwest Telecommunications Engineering Inst. (China) in 1982 and 1984, resp. He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State Academy in 1989. He came to Texas Tech as an visiting assistant professor in 1989 and, in 2004, he was appointed equally a professor.
Dr. David Weinberg | Email | Office: MA 209 | 806-834-7958 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 1980 Academy of Wisconsin, Madison
	Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry David Weinberg received his Bachelor's Degree from the Academy of Chicago in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1980. He came to Texas Tech in 1980 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986. He held appointments at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA in 1987, 1988, 1989, and 2004. His original enquiry area was Fourier Analysis, but since the tardily 1980's his inquiry areas have been Real Algebraic Geometry and Singularities of Aeroplane Algebraic Curves.
Dr. Brock Williams | Email | Office: MA 117I | 806-834-1591 | Website Professor | Ph.D. 1999 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
	Research Interests: Assay, Complex Analysis, Geometry, and Outreach Programs Brock Williams came to Texas Tech in 1999 after earning a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and a B.S. from Mississippi Country Academy. Dr. Williams primary research interests are discrete conformal geometry and geometric function theory. In item, he peculiarly interested in the application of circle packing techniques to Riemann surfaces and quasiconformal maps. He is also involved in several funded projects involving STEM outreach and teacher preparation.
Dr. Kazuo Yamazaki | E-mail | Office: MA 234 | 806-834-6112 | Website Assistant Professor | Ph.D. 2014 Oklahoma State University
	Enquiry Interests: Enquiry Interests:  Fluid PDE, Harmonic Analysis, Stochastic Analysis, Mathematical Biology Dr. Yamazaki received a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State Academy in 2014.  Prior to coming to TTU, he was a post-dr. at Washington Land University and the University of Rochester.  His research consists of applications of harmonic and stochastic analysis tools to partial differential equations of fluid mechanics (e.yard. Navier-Stokes equations) and infectious diseases (e.g. cholera).
Dr. Fangyuan Zhang | Electronic mail | Function: MA 218 | 806-834-2587 | Website Associate Professor | Ph.D. 2015 Ohio State Academy
	Research Interests: Statistical Genetics and Epigenetics Fangyuan Zhang joined the department every bit an banana Professor in the fall of 2015. Prior to this, she received a B.Southward. degree in statistics at Beijing Normal University in Red china. In 2015, she received a PhD in Biostatistics from the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University. Fangyuan Zhang�s research interests are in statistical genetics and epigenetics. Her current enquiry projects include developing parametric and nonparametric statistical methods to notice genomic imprinting and maternal effects under different report designs, and testing for clan in a heterogeneous sample and its application to tumor clustering.
Dr. Wenjing Zhang | Email | Office: MA 214 | 806-834-1224 | Website Assistant Professor | Ph.D. 2014 University of Western Ontario
	Enquiry Interests: Biomath, Applied Mathematics Wenjing Zhang investigates disease dynamics, including recurrence and multiple stability, in parameter space through bifurcation theory, geometric singular perturbation theory and scientific computation. Her newspaper �Viral Blips May Not Need a Trigger: How Transient Viremia Tin can Ascend in Deterministic In-Host Models� was published in SIGEST department in SIAM Review in 2014.

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