Current RTG Faculty
Kevin Lin (PI; Assoc. Professor of Mathematics, Applied Math, Statistics, and Neuroscience) Nonlinear dynamics, data driven modeling, Monte Carlo methods, computational neuroscience. | Misha Chertkov (co-PI; Chair, Program in Applied Mathematics; Professor of Mathematics and Applied Math) Energy systems; physics-informed machine learning; control; optimization; statistical physics. | Dave Glickenstein (co-PI; Chair, Graduate Program in Mathematics; Professor of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics) Differential geometry; machine learning; circadian rhythms. | Helen Zhang (co-PI; Professor of Mathematics, Applied Math, and Statistics) Data science; nonparametrics; high dimensional data analysis; statisical machine learning; biological / biomedical data analysis. | Laura Miller (Profesor of Mathematics and Applied Math) Mathematical biology; fluid dynamics. |
Ali Bilgin (Assoc. Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Medical Imaging, and Applied Math) Digital signal processing, image processing, image and video vompression, magnetic resonance imaging. | Ning Hao (Assoc. Professor of Mathematics and Statistics) High-dimensional statistical learning; change-point detection; bioinformatics; geometry and topology. |
Leonid Kunyansky (Professor of Mathematics and Applied Math) Electromagnetic theory, wave scattering; theory and algorithms for photoacoustic, nuclear, and other types of tomography; photonic crystals; high contrast asymptotics of photonics. | Selena Niu (Assoc. Professor of Mathematics and Statistics) Change-point detection; bioinformatics. | Megha Padi (Assist. Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Director, Arizona Cancer Center Bioinformatics Shared Resource) Integrating genomic “big data” and models to study how cellular networks are functionally altered by disease, genetic variation, and epigenetics. |
Marek Rychlik (Professor of Mathematics) Nonlinear dynamics and chaos; data compression; algorithm development; software engineering; image processing. | Shankar Venkataramani (Professor of Mathematics and Applied Math) Mathematical and physical problems from continuum mechanics, materials science, and geoscience. |
RTG Postdoctoral Fellows
Avinash Karamchandani (PhD Northwestern Applied Math 2020) Nonlinear dynamics; coupled oscillators. | Christian Parkinson (PhD UCLA Mathematics 2020) Mathematical and computational modeling; level set methods & Hamilton-Jacobi equations. | (PhD CU-Boulder, Applied Math 2023) Data Assimilation; Covariance modeling; Advective dynamics. | Xiaolong Zhang (PhD Duke, Scientific Computing & HPC 2023) Generative models; Physics-informed / physics-constrained ML. |
2023-24 RTG Graduate Trainees
Alexa Aucoin | Applied Math Advisor: Misha Chertkov | Parneet Gill Mathematics Advisor: Marek Rychlik | Addie Harrison Applied Math Advisor: Laura Miller |
Applied Math Advisor: Misha Chertkov | Jeffrey Mei Statistics Advisor: Selena Niu | John Park Mathematics Advisor: Ning Hao | Rebekah Saucier Applied Math Advisor: Laura Miller |
Brian Toner Applied Math & Statistics Advisor: Ali Bilgin |
2022-23 RTG Graduate Trainees
Alexa Aucoin | Applied Math Advisor: Marek Rychlik | Dunia Fernandez Applied Math Advisor: Laura Miller | Applied Math Advisor: Misha Chertkov |
Applied Math Advisor: Misha Chertkov | Jeffrey Mei Statistics Advisor: Selena Niu | Karaline Petty Mathematics Advisor: Shankar Venkataramani | Joseph Ruiz Mathematics Advisor: Marek Rychlik |
Ben Stilin Applied Math Advisor: Kevin Lin |
2021-22 RTG Graduate Trainees
Applied Math Advisor: David Glickenstein | Applied Math Advisor: Marek Rychlik | Dunia Fernandez Applied Math Advisor: Laura Miller | Applied Math Advisor: Misha Chertkov |
Applied Math Advisor: Misha Chertkov | Statistics Advisor: Helen Zhang |
2020-21 RTG Graduate Trainees
Alexa Aucoin (Applied Math) Advisor: Kevin Lin | Brian Bell (Applied Math) Advisor: David Glickenstein | Kenny Plante (Mathematics) Advisor: Shankar Venkataramani | Michael Woodward (Applied Math) Advisor: Misha Chertkov | Liyun Zeng (Statistics) Advisor: Helen Zhang |