Ali Al-Sharadqah
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN123
E-Mail: ali.alsharadqah@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-2703
Website
Research Interests: I. Statistics: Errors-In-Variables (EIV) Models, Statistical Inference, Geometric Estimation, and Computational Statistics.
II. The applications of Projective Geometry onto computer vision and 3D reconstruction: Fundamental Matrix and Homography computations and Rotation Matrix estimation.
Alexander Alekseenko
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN130
E-Mail: alexander.alekseenko@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-2645
Website
Research Interests: Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations, Numerical General Relativity, Inverse Problems, Optimization.
Jorge Balbas
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN125
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-4772
Website
Research Interests: My research interest is in Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis. In particular,I am interested in the design and implementation of efficient numerical algorithms for solving hyperbolic conservation laws and related time dependent problems. Examples and applications include shallow water flows --channel and coastal flows, gas dynamics, and magnetohydrodynamics.
David Bermudes
Assistant Professor of Biology
Office: MG4217
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-6062
Research Interests: Symbiosis and pathogenesis are closely related evolutionary consequences of the interaction of two or more organisms. My laboratory engineers pathogenic bacteria to become non-pathogenic and specifically home to and kill cancer cells
Cristina Cadavid
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Office: LO1130
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-2771
Research Interests: research in solar physics centers on: study of the scaling symmetry of the spatial and temporal structures of solar magnetic and velocity fields; constraining from observations the properties of dynamo models; energy transport in the solar atmosphere and the connection between kinetic and magnetic processes in the solar surface and the heating of the solar upper atmosphere.
Randy Cohen
Professor of Biology
Office: EH2102
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-3356 and 818-677-2352
Research Interests: My research laboratory investigates the molecular and biochemical time course of neurological disorders like ataxia, identifying how the central nervous system (CNS) reacts to chemical alterations of those neighboring cells that are destined for neurodegeneration. Specifically, my students and I study the biochemical and molecular effects of how neurons, affected by the phenomenon of glutamate dysfunction, may be protected by various signal transduction systems.
Dale Conner
Professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management
Office: JD3511
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-4730
Website
Research Interests: My research interests lie in the processing and mechanical characterization of bulk metallic glass and its composites, and amorphous thin films.
Daniel Curtis
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Office: LO1300
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-2479
Research Interests: Study of the spectroscopic properties of atmospheric aerosol particles. This data is used for studies of Earth's climate and urban air pollution.
Maria-Rita D'Orsogna
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN123
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-2703
Website
Research Interests: My research interests include particle swarming, transport phenomena in biology, viral entry and mathematical modeling of crime and sociological behavior. I am also an environmental activist.
Rabia Djellouli
Chair, Department of Mathematics
Office: SN121/ LO1300
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-5867/ 2721
Website
Research Interests: Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation Phenomena (Scattering & Guidance), Computational Mechanics, System Identification and Finite Element Model Updating, Scientific Computing, Numerical Analysis, Biomathematics and Biomedical Engineering.
Jussi Eloranta
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Office: EH2025
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-2677
Website
Research Interests: low temperature chemistry in superfluid helium, liquid phase studies of organic radicals, decomposition reactions of perxoides, matrix isolation spectroscopy of small molecules.
Steven Fiedler
IRIS Post-Doctoral Fellow
Office: SN418
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-7796
Research Interests:Computation of scientific and mathematical systems: Electronic structure calculations of solvated environments, nonadiabatic dynamics, numerical methods in wave propagation, cell membrane simulation
Simon Garrett
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Office: MG4300
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-3361 and 818-677-3381
Research Interests: My research interests are centered around surface science. In particular, I am interested in photochemistry, transition metal alloys and oxides. Currently, I am pursuing three research directions (i) understanding the corrosion and joining of bulk metallic glasses (ii) understanding the reactivity of organic molecules in ice films with a view to comet chemistry and (iii) making oxide nanoparticles for use as nanophotocatalysts and nanomagnets.
David Klein
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN127
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-7792
Website
Research Interests: Mathematical Physics, General Relativity and Cosmology, Statistical Mechanics, Climate Science.
Tyler Luchko
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Office: LO1124B
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-6442
Research Interests: My group develops new computational methods, based on molecular solvation theory, to help understand interactions between proteins, DNA and thousands of small molecules at the atomic scale. This work uses molecular modeling, integral equation theory, and statistical mechanics to help solve problems in biophysics, computational chemistry, and drug design.
Majid Mojirsheibani
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN122
E-Mail: majid.mojirsheibani@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-7814
Website
Research Interests: Nonparametric estimation and inference; Probabilistic classification and pattern recognition; Missing data; Bootstrap and other resampling methods.
Sean Murray
Professor of Biology
Office: EH2205
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-2950
Research Interests: My laboratory focuses on the role of lipids (fats) in bacterial cell division and differentiation using the model organism Caulobacter crescentus.
Vladislav Panferov
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN129
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-2326
Website
Research Interests: applied mathematics, partial differential equations, kinetic theory and statistical physics, mathematical biology.
Dayanthie Weeraratne
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
Office: LO1203
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-2046
Website
Research Interests: I use interdisciplinary techniques in surface wave tomography, shear wave splitting, and physical fluid dynamics, to study geophysical problems including the the formation and evolution of continental lithosphere,coupling of asthenospheric flow with oceanic and continental lithosphere, and the dynamics of planetary systems such as the interaction of whole mantle convection and planetary core dynamics with upper mantle and surface observables.
Emmanuel Yomba
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN124
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-2711
Research Interests: Mathematical Physics. Study of Integrability conditions for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (NLPDEs), Qualitative Approaches and Construction of Analytical Approaches for Solving NLPDEs and statistical physics, mathematical biology.
Ali Zakeri
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN120
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-7816
Website
Research Interests: Applied Mathematics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Approximation Theory.
