Mathematics and Statistics Research
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The Department of Mathematics and Statistics supports an active group of researchers with interests spanning a broad range. There is a strong emphasis on conducting research of regional significance and on the active involvement of both graduate and undergraduate students.
Faculty members and graduate students are currently conducting research in the areas of bioinformatics, biostatistics, computational biology, computational engineering, financial analytics, forensic statistics, numerical analysis, quantitative genetics, Ramsey theory and statistics.
Faculty Research
Matt Biesecker
Research interests: mathematical modeling, optimization, calculus of variations
Fred Boehm
Research interests: biostatistics, with a focus in statistical genetics
Gemechis Djira
Research interests: simultaneous inferences, bioassays, longitudinal data analysis, statistical computing, Bayesian analysis, sequential methods
- (with Ramu Sudhagoni)
Xijin Ge
Research interests: bioinformatics, genomics and cancer
Jung-Han Kimn
Research interests: efficient parallel algorithm based on domain decompositions: mathematical analysis and practical implementation
Semhar Michael
Research interests: computational statistics with a focus on finite mixture modeling and model-based clustering
- Studying complexity of model-based clustering
Hossein Moradi
Research interests: big data, dimension reduction and variable selection, functional data analysis, multivariate statistics, spatial and spatiotemporal statistics
Trang Nguyen
Research interests: optimization, optimal control and applications, machine learning and statistical learning
Michael Puthawala
Research interests:
- Machine learning: manifold learning, geometric learning, universality
- Math/applied math: inverse problems, scientific computing, optimal transport
Chris Saunders
Research interests: forensic inference of source, statistical pattern recognition and approximation theory
Dan Schaal
Research interests: combinatorics, Ramsey theory on the real numbers
Don Vestal
Research interests: number theory and combinatorics (especially Ramsey theory)
Sharon Vestal
Student Research
Graduate Student Research
- Vahid Hosseinzadeh – working with Michael Puthawala
- The intersection of geometric deep learning and power systems stability
- Cole Patten – working with Michael Puthawala and Chris Saunders
- Cole Rausch – working with Michael Puthawala
- Stability of inverses of ReLU activation layers in deep neural networks
Recent Theses and Dissertations
- Emma Brookman (M.S., 2025):
- Eleanor Cain (M.S., 2025):
- Annamarie Dobbs (M.S., 2025):
- Nathan Meyer (M.S., 2025):
- Edwin Mutimba (M.S., 2025):
- Addy Smith (M.S., 2025):
- Anthony Glackin (M.S., 2024):
- Cole Patten (M.S., 2024):
- Cami Fuglsby (Ph.D., 2023):
- Rachel Bergjord (M.S., 2023):
- Shi Wen Wong (M.S., 2023):
- Skylar Halverson (M.S., 2022):
- Stephanie Liebl (M.S., 2022):
- Rylee Sundermann (M.S., 2022):
- Tessa Sundermann (M.S., 2022):
- Madeline Anne Ausdemore (Ph.D., 2021):
- Nicholas Brown (Ph.D., 2021):
- Jessie Hendricks (Ph.D., 2021):
- Paul May (Ph.D., 2021):
- Rong Zhou (M.S., 2021):
- Abdelbaset Abdalla (Ph.D., 2019):
- Shaopeng Gu (M.S., 2019):
- Amanda Jensen (M.S., 2019):
- Nicholas Stegmeier (M.S., 2019):
