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.

Shay Gilpin 

(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: Kevin Lin

Robert Ferrando

Robert Ferrando

Applied Math

Advisor: Misha Chertkov

Parneet Gill

Mathematics

Advisor: Marek Rychlik

Addie Harrison

Applied Math

Advisor: Laura Miller

Criston Hyett

Criston Hyett

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: Kevin Lin

Duncan Bennett

Duncan Bennett

Applied Math

Advisor: Marek Rychlik

Dunia Fernandez

Dunia Fernandez Applied Math

Advisor: Laura Miller

Robert Ferrando

Robert Ferrando

Applied Math

Advisor: Misha Chertkov

Criston Hyett

Criston Hyett

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

Brian Bell

Applied Math

Advisor: David Glickenstein

Duncan Bennett

Duncan Bennett

Applied Math

Advisor: Marek Rychlik

Dunia Fernandez

Dunia Fernandez Applied Math

Advisor: Laura Miller

Robert Ferrando

Robert Ferrando

Applied Math

Advisor: Misha Chertkov

Criston Hyett

Criston Hyett

Applied Math

Advisor: Misha Chertkov

Liyun Zeng

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