Faculty by Research Group
| Idan Attias | Postdoctoral Research Associate | PhD 2024, Ben-Gurion University. Advances in Robust Statistical Learning Theory advised by Aryeh Kontorovich and Yishay Mansour |
| Matthew Harrison-Trainor | Associate Professor | PhD 2017, University of California, Berkeley. The Complexity of Countable Structures advised by Antonio Montalban |
| Vishesh Jain | Associate Professor | PhD 2020, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Quantitative invertibility of random matrices: a combinatorial perspective advised by Elchanan Mossel |
| Yusuf Hakan Kalayci | Postdoctoral Research Associate | PhD 2026, University of Southern California. Stochastic selection under relaxed structural assumptions advised by Shaddin Dughmi |
| Lev Reyzin | Professor | PhD 2009, Yale University. Active Learning of Interaction Networks advised by Dana Angluin |
| Gyorgy Turan | Professor Emeritus | PhD 1981, Joszef Attila University, Hungary. On the definability and local recognizability of graph properties advised by Laszlo Lovasz |
| Marcus Michelen | Assistant Professor | PhD 2019, University of Pennsylvania. Percolation on Galton-Watson Trees advised by Robin Pemantle |
Theoretical Computer Science - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.
Probability, Statistics, and Data Science - Primary Interest
| Kyunghee Han | Associate Professor | PhD 2017, Seoul National University. Smooth backfitting in errors-in-variables additive models advised by Byeong Uk Pak |
| Dibyen Majumdar | Professor Emeritus | PhD 1981, Indian Statistical Institute. Statistical Analysis of Nonestimable Functionals advised by Sujit K. Mitra |
| Cheng Ouyang | Professor | PhD 2009, Northwestern University. Asymptotics of Implied Volatility in Local Volatility Models advised by Elton Hsu |
| Jennifer Pajda-De La O | Clinical Associate Professor | PhD 2016, University of Illinois at Chicago. On the Law of Iterated Logarithms for Brownian Motion on Compact Manifolds advised by Cheng Ouyang |
| Jing Wang | Professor | PhD 2006, Michigan State University. Polynomial spline smoothing: confidence band and additive model advised by Lijian Yang |
| Yichao Wu | Professor | PhD 2006, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Probability Approximation with Application in Computational Finance and Computational Biology advised by Harry Heard, Chuanshu Ji |
| Jie Yang | Professor | PhD 2006, University of Chicago. I. Infinite Exchangeability & Partitions; II. Permanent Processes & Classification Models advised by Peter McCullagh |
| Min Yang | Professor | PhD 2002, University of Illinois at Chicago. Universal optimality in crossover design and statistical methods in assessing agreement. advised by Samad Hedayat |
| Ping-Shou Zhong | Professor | PhD 2011, Iowa State University. Topics in high dimensional statistical inference and ANOVA for longitudinal data advised by Song Xi Chen |
Probability, Statistics, and Data Science - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.
Number Theory - Primary Interest
| Alina Carmen Cojocaru | Professor | PhD 2002, Queen's University. advised by M. Ram Murty |
| Nathan Jones | Research Professor | PhD 2005, University of California - Los Angeles. Almost All Elliptic Curves Are Serre Curves. advised by William Duke |
| Ramin Takloo-Bighash | Professor | PhD 2001, Johns Hopkins University. The integral of Novodvorsky and local p-adic factors of the spinor L functions for GSp(4) advised by Joseph A. Shalika |
| Richard A. P. Birkett | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2023, University of Notre Dame. Algebraic Stability and Skew Products on the Berkovich Projective Line advised by Jeffrey Diller |
| Frederick Saia | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2023, University of Georgia. Number theory and arithmetric geometry advised by Pete Clark |
Number Theory - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.
Mathematical Education - Primary Interest
| Martina Bode | Clinical Professor | PhD 1996, Brandeis University. Homogeneous vector bundles on symplectic Grassmannians advised by Marc Levine |
| Alison Castro Superfine | Professor | PhD 2006, University of Michigan. Planning for mathematics instruction: A study of the teacher guide as a resource. advised by Edward Silver |
| Shavila Devi | Teaching Associate Professor | PhD 2019, Illinois Institute of Technology. Mathematics Identity and Self Advocacy advised by Norman Letterman |
| Billy Jackson | Clinical Associate Professor | PhD 2007, Baylor University. A General Linear Systems Theory on Time Scales: Transforms, Stability, and Control advised by John M. Davis |
| Danny Martin | Professor | PhD 1997, University of California, Berkeley. |
| Mara Martinez | Associate Professor | PhD 2008, Tufts University. Mathematics Education advised by Barbara Brizuela |
| Phi Nguyen | Assistant Professor | PhD 2023, University of Missouri-Columbia. Where are the boundaries of mathematics education (policy)?: Comparing two school districts and their subject-matter contexts advised by Charles Munter |
| Kevin Whyte | Professor | PhD 1998, University of Chicago. The geometry of discrete metric spaces advised by Shmuel Weinberger |
Mathematical Education - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.
Logic - Primary Interest
| Gabriel Conant | Associate Professor | PhD 2015, University of Illinois at Chicago. Model Theory and Combinatorics of Homogeneous Metric Spaces advised by David Marker |
| Fred Drueck | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2012, University of Illinois at Chicago. Limit Models, Superlimit Models, and Two Cardinal Problems in Abstract Elementary Classes advised by John Baldwin |
| Christine Eagles | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2026, University of Waterloo. Contributions to the model theory of algebraic differential equations advised by Rahim Moosa |
| James Freitag | Professor | PhD 2012, University of Illinois at Chicago. Model Theory and Differential Algebraic Geometry advised by David Marker |
| Matthew Harrison-Trainor | Associate Professor | PhD 2017, University of California, Berkeley. The Complexity of Countable Structures advised by Antonio Montalban |
| Scott Mutchnik | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2023, University of California, Berkeley. On the classification of unstable first-order theories advised by Thomas Scanlon |
| Ronnie Nagloo | Associate Professor | PhD 2014, University of Leeds. Model theory, Algebra and Differential Equations advised by Anand Pillay |
| Caroline Terry | Associate Professor | PhD 2016, University of Illinois at Chicago. Model Theory and Extremal Combinatorics: Structure, Enumeration, and 0-1 laws advised by David Marker and Dhruv Mubayi |
Logic - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.
Geometry and Topology - Primary Interest
| Emily Dumas | Professor | PhD 2004, Harvard University. Complex Projective Structures, Grafting, and Teichmuller Theory advised by Curt McMullen |
| Daniel Groves | Professor | PhD 2000, University of Oxford. Problems in Lie Rings and Groups advised by Michal Vaughan-Lee |
| Alex Maldague | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2026, Rice University. Superrigidity of Rich Representations advised by David Fisher |
| Julius Ross | Professor | PhD 2004, Imperial College, London. Instability of Polarised Algebraic Varieties advised by Simon Donaldson and Richard Thomas |
| Laura Schaposnik | Professor | PhD 2013, University of Oxford. Spectral data for G-Higgs bundles advised by Nigel Hitchin |
| Brooke Shipley | Professor | PhD 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Convergence of the homology spectral sequence of a cosimplicial space advised by Haynes R. Miller |
| Wouter Van Limbeek | Associate Professor | PhD 2015, University of Chicago. Discrete and continuous aspects of local symmetry advised by Benson Farb |
| Kevin Whyte | Professor | PhD 1998, University of Chicago. The geometry of discrete metric spaces advised by Shmuel Weinberger |
| Benjamin Call | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2022, The Ohio State University. Uniqueness and Mixing Properties of Equilibrium States advised by Daniel Thompson |
| Christopher Mahadeo | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2023, University of Saskatchewan. Twisted Higgs bundles, topological recursion, and quantum curves advised by Steven Rayan |
| Nolan Schock | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2022, University of Georgia. Geometry of Tropical Compactification of Moduli Spaces advised by Valery Alexeev |
Geometry and Topology - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems - Primary Interest
| Alexander Furman | Professor | PhD 1996, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ergodic actions of groups advised by Benjamin Weiss |
| Osama Khalil | Associate Professor | PhD 2019, The Ohio State University. On the Dimension of Certain Divergent Trajectories on Homogeneous Spaces and Diophantine Approximation advised by Nimish Shah |
| Richard A. P. Birkett | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2023, University of Notre Dame. Algebraic Stability and Skew Products on the Berkovich Projective Line advised by Jeffrey Diller |
| Felix Lequen | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2023, CY Cergy Paris Universite. Random Ergdic Properties of Some Singular Holomorphic Foliations and Lie Groups advised by Bertrand Deroin |
| Nicole Looper | Associate Professor | PhD 2018, Northwestern University. Uniformity in Polynomial Dynamics: Canonical Heights, Primitive Prime Divisors, and Galois Representations advised by Laura DeMarco |
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.
Combinatorics and Probability - Primary Interest
| Vishesh Jain | Associate Professor | PhD 2020, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Quantitative invertibility of random matrices: a combinatorial perspective advised by Elchanan Mossel |
| Haoran Luo | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2025, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. Extremal problems on hypergraphs and set families advised by Jozsef Balogh |
| Dhruv Mubayi | Professor | PhD 1998, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Extremal Problems in Graph Theory: Degree Sequences, Distance, Colorings, and Labellings advised by Douglas West |
| Cheng Ouyang | Professor | PhD 2009, Northwestern University. Asymptotics of Implied Volatility in Local Volatility Models advised by Elton Hsu |
| Caroline Terry | Associate Professor | PhD 2016, University of Illinois at Chicago. Model Theory and Extremal Combinatorics: Structure, Enumeration, and 0-1 laws advised by David Marker and Dhruv Mubayi |
| Gyorgy Turan | Professor Emeritus | PhD 1981, Joszef Attila University, Hungary. On the definability and local recognizability of graph properties advised by Laszlo Lovasz |
| Nicholas Christo | Teaching Assistant | |
| Marcus Michelen | Assistant Professor | PhD 2019, University of Pennsylvania. Percolation on Galton-Watson Trees advised by Robin Pemantle |
Combinatorics and Probability - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.
Analysis and Partial Differential Equations - Primary Interest
| Jerry Bona | Professor Emeritus | PhD 1971, Harvard University. Cauchy problems with random initial data in spaces of tempered distributions advised by Garret Birkhoff |
| Mimi Dai | Professor | PhD 2012, University of California - Santa Cruz. Properties of solutions to Liquid Crystal stystems and Magneto-hydrodynamic systems advised by Maria Schonbek |
| Michael Greenblatt | Professor | PhD 1998, Princeton University. A method for providing boundedness of singular Radon transforms in codimension 1 advised by Elias M. Stein |
| Irina Nenciu | Professor | PhD 2005, California Institute of Technology. Lax pairs for the Ablowitz-Ladik system via orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle advised by B. Simion |
| David Nicholls | Professor | PhD 1998, Brown University. Traveling Gravity Water Waves in Two and Three Dimensions advised by Walter Craig |
| Roman Shvydkoy | Professor | PhD 2001, University of Missouri, Columbia. Operators and integrals in Banach spaces advised by N. Kalton and Y. Latushkin |
| Christof Sparber | Professor | PhD 2004, University of Vienna. Rigorous results in nonlinear quantum dynamics advised by Peter Markowich |
| Benjamin Call | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2022, The Ohio State University. Uniqueness and Mixing Properties of Equilibrium States advised by Daniel Thompson |
Analysis and Partial Differential Equations - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.
Applied and Computational Mathematics - Primary Interest
| Rafail Abramov | Professor | PhD 2002, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. advised by Andrew Majda, Gregor Kovacic |
| Gerard Awanou | Professor | PhD 2003, University of Georgia. Energy methods in 3D spline approximations of Navier-Stokes equations advised by Ming-Jun Lai |
| Jerry Bona | Professor Emeritus | PhD 1971, Harvard University. Cauchy problems with random initial data in spaces of tempered distributions advised by Garret Birkhoff |
| Mimi Dai | Professor | PhD 2012, University of California - Santa Cruz. Properties of solutions to Liquid Crystal stystems and Magneto-hydrodynamic systems advised by Maria Schonbek |
| Billy Jackson | Clinical Associate Professor | PhD 2007, Baylor University. A General Linear Systems Theory on Time Scales: Transforms, Stability, and Control advised by John M. Davis |
| David Nicholls | Professor | PhD 1998, Brown University. Traveling Gravity Water Waves in Two and Three Dimensions advised by Walter Craig |
| Roman Shvydkoy | Professor | PhD 2001, University of Missouri, Columbia. Operators and integrals in Banach spaces advised by N. Kalton and Y. Latushkin |
| Jan Verschelde | Professor | PhD 1996, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Homotopy continuation methods for solving polynomial systems advised by Ann Haegemans; Hugo Van de Vel |
Applied and Computational Mathematics - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry - Primary Interest
| Izzet Coskun | Professor | PhD 2004, Harvard University. Degenerations of scrolls and Del Pezzo surfaces and applications to enumerative geometry advised by Joe Harris |
| Lawrence Ein | Professor | PhD 1981, University of California, Berkeley. Vector bundles on pn advised by Robin Hartshorne |
| Philip Engel | Associate Professor | PhD 2015, Columbia University. A Proof of Looijenga's Conjecture via Integral-affine Geometry advised by Robert David Friedman |
| Olga Kashcheyeva | Research Associate Professor | PhD 2003, University of Missouri, Columbia. Monomialization of strongly prepared morphisms to surfaces advised by S. D. Cutkosky |
| Julius Ross | Professor | PhD 2004, Imperial College, London. Instability of Polarised Algebraic Varieties advised by Simon Donaldson and Richard Thomas |
| Kevin Tucker | Professor | PhD 2010, University of Michigan. Jumping Numbers and Multiplier Ideals on Algebraic Surfaces advised by Karen E. Smith |
| Wenliang Zhang | Professor | PhD 2008, University of Minnesota. Lyubeznik numbers advised by Gennady Lyubeznik |
| Ben Bakker | Associate Professor | PhD 2010, Princeton University. Hodge polynomials of moduli spaces of stable pairs on K3 surfaces advised by Rahul Pandharipande |
| Benjamin Call | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2022, The Ohio State University. Uniqueness and Mixing Properties of Equilibrium States advised by Daniel Thompson |
| Shiji Lyu | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2023, Princeton University. Splinter-type singularities via ultrapower advised by Janos Kollar |
| Gwyneth Moreland | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2023, Harvard University. On the nef and effective cones of Hilbert schemes of points in projective space. advised by Joe Harris |
| Eamon Quinlan-Gallego | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2021, University of Michigan. Bernstein-Sato theory in positive characteristic advised by Karen Smith |
| Nolan Schock | Research Assistant Professor | PhD 2022, University of Georgia. Geometry of Tropical Compactification of Moduli Spaces advised by Valery Alexeev |
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry - Secondary Interest
Nobody in this category at the moment.