Tenure-Track Faculty

Bernardo Abrego
Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1303B
E-Mail: bernardo.abrego@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-5868

Research Interests: My research interest is in Combinatorics, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graph Theory

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:
Phone: 818-677-2645
Website

Research Interests: My research interest is in Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations, Numerical General Relativity, Inverse Problems, Optimization.

Jorge Balbas
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1301F
E-Mail:
Phone: 818-677-7797
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.

Alberto Candel
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN430
E-Mail: alberto.candel@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-6512
Website

Research Interests: My research interest is in geometry, low dimensional topology, dynamical systems and ergodic theory.

Franҫois Domagni
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN120 
E-Mail: kouakou-francois.domagni@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-7816

Research Interests: My research interest spans the field of design and analysis of experiments as well as the Bayesian inference on the volatility of the jump-diffusion stochastic process. I work on optimal design theory, saturated and supersaturated designs.

Maria-Rita D'Orsogna
Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1303D
E-Mail: maria-rita.d'orsogna@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-2781
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
Professor 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.

John Dye
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN431
E-Mail:
Phone: (818)677-2233

Research Interests: My research interest is in Probability and Applications to Algorithms, Fluid Dynamics, Mathematical Physics.

Kellie Evans
Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1301C
E-Mail: kellie.m.evans@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-2705
Website

Research Interests: My research interests are secondary teacher preparation, cellular automata and experimental mathematics. I am interested in using interactive and visual approaches to teaching, learning, and studying mathematics at all levels. My goals are to assist undergraduates and prospective and current teachers in leveraging widely available (free) dynamic software to make learning, teaching, and doing math at all levels accessible and equitable so more people can benefit from the certainty of math in our uncertain world. 

Silvia Fernandez
Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1303F
E-Mail: silvia.fernandez@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-6445
Website

Research Interests: My research interest is in Discrete Geometry, Combinatorics, and Graph Theory.

Terry Fuller
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1301G
E-Mail:
Phone: (818)677-7789
Website

Research Interests: My research interest is in Geometrical Topology, 4-Dimensional Manifolds, Computational Topology.

Xiaolong Han
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN429
E-Mail: xiaolong.han@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-2710
Website

Research Interests: Analysis (microlocal, semiclassical, harmonic, geometric, etc.) and its applications to partial differential equations and geometry.

  Meng-Che (Turbo) Ho

  Assistant Professor of Mathematics
  Office: SN129
  E-Mail: mengche.ho@csun.edu
  Phone: (818)677-7907
  Website

Research Interests: Group Theory and Mathematical Logic, with an emphasis on complexity notions with a computability-theoretic or combinatorial flavor in finitely-generated group

Daniel Katz
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN426
E-Mail:
Phone: (818)677-2712
Website

Research Interests: My research interest is in Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, Mostly Concerning Finite Fields, Polynomials, and Character Sums, Often Applicable to Information Theory.

David Klein
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN127
E-mail: david.klein@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-7792
Website

Research Interests: mathematical Physics, general relativity and cosmology, statistical mechanics, climate science.

Jing Li
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1303C
E-Mail: jing.li@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-7799
Website

Research Interests: My research interest is in mathematical modeling of biological phenomena using such mathematical techniques as differential equations (ODE's, PDE's, and DDE's). Recently I have also been applying techniques from game theory to problems from mathematical epidemiology.

Jason Lo
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN433
E-Mail: jason.lo@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-3212
Website

Research Interests: Algebra geometry - stability conditions and moduli spaces. The interface between algebric geometry and representation theory.

Majid Mojirsheibani
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.

Michael Neubauer
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN425
E-Mail: michael.neubauer@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-3111
Website

Research Interests: My research interests include linear algebra, combinatorics, and apportionment theory.

Vladislav Panferov
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN131
E-mail: vladislav.panferov@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-2326
Website

Research Interests: applied mathematics, partial differential equations, kinetic theory and statistical physics, mathematica biology.

Jacek Polewczak
Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1310E
E-mail: jacek.polewczak@csun.edu
Phone: 818-6777812
Website

Research Interests: mathematical problems in the kinetic theory of gasses, statistical mechanics of fluids, chemically reacting fluids.

Jerry Rosen
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN436
E-Mail: jerry.rosen@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-7790

Mary Rosen
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN435
E-Mail: mary.rosen@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-7791
Website

  Mark Schilling
  Professor of Mathematics
  Office: SN424
  E-Mail: mark.schilling@csun.edu
  Phone: (818)677-2126
  Website 

  Research Interests: My research interest is in Mathematical Statistics, Probability.

Yannan Shen
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN125
E-Mail: yannan.shen@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-4772
Website

Research Interests:Applied mathematics, models from physics & engineering, such as optical systems, metamaterials, plasmas & Bose-Einstein condensates. These physical models are described by differential equations such as the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, complex Ginzburg Landau equation, short pulse equation. My research mainly involves existence, stability & dynamics of solitary wave solutions. Methods employed include asymptotics, variational approximations, rigorous analysis, numerical analysis, as well as scientific computing.

Carol Shubin
Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1303A
E-Mail: carol.shubin@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-7813
Website

Chad Sprouse
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1303E
E-Mail: chad.sprouse@csun.edu
Website

  Katherine Stevenson

  Professor of Mathematics
  Office: LO1303G
  E-Mail: katherine.stevenson@csun.edu
  Phone: 818-677-6446
  Website

 Research Interests: My research interest is in arithmetic geometry, looking at inverse Galois problems in the context of function fields of curves defined over   fields of positive characteristic. My work employs techniques from commutative algebra, number theory, group theory, representation theory, and topology.

Csaba Toth
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN434
E-Mail: csaba.toth@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-2826
Website

Research Interests: Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorial and Computational Geometry, Graph Theory, and Theoretical Computer Science.

Ramin Vakilian
Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1301D
E-Mail: vakilian@csun.edu
Phone: (818)677-7786
Website

Research Interests: My research interest is in math biology, math ecology, infectious diseases, carbon cycle, and chemical physics.

Ann E. Watkins
Professor of Mathematics
Office: LO1310B
E-Mail: ann.watkins@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-2721
Website 

Emmanuel Yomba
Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN124
E-Mail: emmanuel.yomba@csun.edu
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.

   Adriano Zambom

   Professor of Mathematics

   Office: SN126
   E-Mail: adriano.zambom@csun.edu
   Phone: (818)677-2701