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Algebra
Daniel Rogalski
Associate Professor
Noncommutative Ring Theory, Noncommutative Geometry
Ph.D., University of Michigan
NSF Research Grant
Lance Small
Professor
Noncommutative Ring Theory
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Hans Wenzl
Professor
Operator Algebras
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
NSF Grant
Efim Zelmanov
Professor
Jordan Algebras, Infinite Discrete Groups, Profinite Groups
Ph.D., Novosibirsk University
College de France Medal
Fields Medal
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Spain
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Andre Aizenstadt Prize
Rita L. Atkinson Chair in Mathematics
Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Science

Algebraic Geometry
Mark Gross
Professor
Differential Geometry
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Dragos Oprea
Assistant Professor
Mathematical Physics, Moduli Spaces, Gromov-Witten Invariants, Donaldson-type Invariants
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bioinformatics
Glenn Tesler
Assistant Professor
Combinatorics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hellman Fellowship
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

Combinatorics
Jozsef Balogh
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Memphis
NSF CAREER Grant (DMS - 0745185)
Adriano Garsia
Professor
Combinatorial Algebra, Representation Theory, Theoretical Computer Science, Real Analysis, Fourier Analysis, Probability Theory, Ergodic Theory
Ph.D., Stanford University
Fan Chung Graham
Professor
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Spectral Graph Theory, Extremal Graph Theory
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Allendoerfer Award of Mathematical Association of America
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
NSF Award
Jeffrey Remmel
Professor
Associate Dean, Physical Sciences
Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics, Mathematical Logic, Computer Science, Hybrid Control
Ph.D., Cornell University
Laura Stevens
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
GAANN Fellowship
Jacques Verstraete
Assistant Professor
Graph Theory
Ph.D., Cambridge University
Prize for Solution to Erdos Problem

Complex Variables
Peter Ebenfelt
Professor
Complex Geometry, Partial Differential Equations
Ph.D., Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
President's Honors Award, Royal Institute of Technology
Wallenberg Prize
5-year Research Fellowship, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
John Eggers
Lecturer
Partial Differential Equations
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
UCSD Academic Distinguished Teaching Award
UCSD Revelle College Outstanding Faculty Award

Differential Equations
Salah Baouendi
Professor
Several Complex Variables
Ph.D., University of Paris, Orsay
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Hans Lindblad
Professor
Nonlinear Wave Equations, Fluids, Relativity, Geometry
Ph.D., Lund Institute of Technology
Linda Rothschild
Professor
Several Complex Variables
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Jacob Sterbenz
Assistant Professor
Non-linear Wave Equations, Tensor-Geometric Analysis, Harmonic Analysis
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Functional Analysis / Operator Theory
Jim Agler
Professor
Ph.D., University of Indiana
Bill Helton
Professor
Linear and Nonlinear Operators, Approximation, Non-Commutative Computer Algebra (all with an emphasis on control engineering)
Ph.D., Stanford University
IEEE Fellow
Guggenheim Fellowship
Daniel Wulbert
Professor
Approximation Theory, Functional Analysis, Banach Space Geometry
Ph.D., University of Texas
United States National Champion in Bicycle Racing (10 Times - Age Classification)
Fulbright Scholar

Geometric Analysis
Ben Chow
Professor
Differential Geometry, Geometric Evolution
Ph.D., Princeton University
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988-1992
NSF, Individual, 1996-2005
NSF, FGR with L. Ni & G. Tian, 2004-2007
Lei Ni
Professor
Differential Geometry and Partial Differential Equations, Complex Geometry and Analysis, Riemannian Geometry
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Kate Okikiolu
Professor
Spectral Geometry
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Ben Weinkove
Associate Professor
Complex Geometry, Partial Differential Equations on Manifolds
Ph.D., Columbia University
Sloan Foundation Fellowship

Geometry and Topology
Nitya Kitchloo
Associate Professor
Lie Groups, Manifolds
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AMS Centennial Fellowship
NSF Grant
Jim Lin
Professor
Graduate Vice Chair
Ph.D., Princeton University
Chancellor's Award for Teaching
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Justin Roberts
Associate Professor
Low Dimensional Topology, Topological Quantum Field Theory
Ph.D., Cambridge University
Recipient of a 5-year Advanced Fellowship, EPSRC, at Edinburgh, Scotland

Logic and Computational Complexity
Samuel Buss
Professor
Department Chair
Computational Complexity, Computer Graphics
Ph.D., Princeton University

Mathematical Physics
David Meyer
Professor
Quantum Computation
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Rabin
Professor
Supermanifolds and Supervarieties, String Theory, Mathematics Education
Ph.D., Stanford University
Academic Senate Award for Distinguished Teaching
UCSD Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award

Mathematics Education
Guershon Harel
Professor
Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University

Number Theory
Alina Bucur
Assistant Professor
Automorphic Forms, Metaplectic Forms, Coxeter Groups, Kac-Moody Algebras
Ph.D., Brown University
Ronald Evans
Professor
Character sum evaluations over finite fields
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Wee Teck Gan
Associate Professor
Representation Theory and Algebraic Groups, Automorphic Forms
Ph.D., Harvard University
AMS Centennial Fellowship
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
NSF Research Grant
Kiran Kedlaya
Associate Professor
Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
Cristian Popescu
Associate Professor
Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, Special Values of L-functions
Ph.D., Ohio State University
2005 Simion Stoilow Prize of the Romanian Academy of Science
Harold Stark
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Audrey Terras
Professor
Harmonic Analysis on Symmetric Spaces
Ph.D., Yale University
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Numerical Analysis
James Bunch
Professor Emeritus
Numerical Linear Algebra, Signal Processing
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Fulbright Fellow
Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Philip Gill
Professor
Numerical Optimization
Ph.D., London University
Melvin Leok
Associate Professor
Computational Geometric Mechanics, Computational Geometric Control Theory, Numerical Analysis
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
NSF CAREER Award
SciCADE New Talent Award
SIAM Student Paper Prize
Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis
Jiawang Nie
Assistant Professor
Computational Optimization, Semidefinite Programming, Multivariate Polynomial Minimization
Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley
NSF CAREER Award
Tucker Prize Finalist
Hellman Foundation Fellowship

Numerical PDE / Scientific Computation
Randolph Bank
Professor
Numerical Partial Differential Equations
Ph.D., Harvard University
Li-Tien Cheng
Associate Professor
Image Processing, Level Set Methods
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Michael Holst
Professor
Numerical Analysis, Applied Analysis, Mathematical Physics, Partial Differential Equations
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Hellman Foundation Fellowship
NSF CAREER Award
Department of Energy Office of Science Award
Bo Li
Associate Professor
Scientific Computation, Continuum Mechanics
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Probability Theory
Bruce Driver
Professor
Geometry
Ph.D., Cornell University
Eastman Kodak Academic Scholar
Cornell University Three Year Teaching Fellow
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
UCSD Chancellor's Summer Faculty Fellowship
Rollo Davidson Prize
Patrick Fitzsimmons
Professor
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Todd Kemp
Assistant Professor
Combinatorics, Functional Analysis
Ph.D., Cornell University
Jason Schweinsberg
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Ruth Williams
Professor
Stochastic Processes
Ph.D., Stanford University
Presidential Young Investigator's Award
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Guggenheim Fellowship
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

Representation Theory
Thomas Enright
Professor
Group Representations, Lie Algebras
Ph.D., University of Washington
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Nolan Wallach
Professor
Lie Groups
Ph.D., Washington University
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Linback Award for Research Excellence
Honorary Professor (University of Cordoba, Argentina)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Statistics
Ian Abramson
Professor
Undergraduate Vice Chair
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Ery Arias-Castro
Assistant Professor
Applied Probability, Statistics, Machine Learning
Ph.D., Stanford University
Dimitris Politis
Professor
Time Series Analysis, Bootstrap Methods, Nonparametrics
Ph.D., Stanford University
Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow
Ronghui Xu
Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine
High Dimensional Data Analysis, Random Effects Models, Survival Analysis, Clinical Trials
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
David P. Byar Young Investigator Award, American Statistical Association

Faculty Directory - All Research Areas

The Emeriti Faculty
Edward Bender
Professor Emeritus
Combinatorics
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
John Evans
Professor Emeritus
Bioinformatics, Applied Mathematics
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Jay Fillmore
Professor Emeritus
Geometry and Topology
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Carl FitzGerald
Professor Emeritus
Complex Variables, Complex Analysis, Differential Games
Ph.D., Stanford University
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Ted Frankel
Professor Emeritus
Mathematical Physics, Differential Geometry, Differential Geometry
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Michael Freedman
Professor Emeritus
Geometry and Topology
Ph.D., Princeton University
Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
California Scientist of the Year Award
Fields Medal
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
National Medal of Science
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Ronald Getoor
Professor Emeritus
Probability Theory
Ph.D., University of Michigan
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
IMS Fellow
Leonard Haff
Professor Emeritus
Statistics, Combinatorial Game Theory
Ph.D., Oregon State University
Hubert Halkin
Professor Emeritus
Functional Analysis / Operator Theory, Computer Science, Optimization Theory
Ph.D., Stanford University
Guggenheim Fellowship
Alfred Manaster
Professor Emeritus
Mathematics Education, Mathematical Logic
Ph.D., Cornell University
John O'Quigley
Professor Emeritus
Statistics
Ph.D., University of Leeds
Yosef Rinott
Professor Emeritus
Statistics, Probabilistic Inequalities, Game Theory, Statistical Modeling, Sampling Theory, Applied Statistics
Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hock Chair in Statistics
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
Burt Rodin
Professor Emeritus
Complex Variables, Complex Analysis, Riemann Surfaces
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Helmut Rohrl
Professor Emeritus
Algebra, Nonassociative Algebra, Convexity Theories
Ph.D., University of Munich
Murray Rosenblatt
Professor Emeritus
Statistics, Probability
Ph.D., Cornell University
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1964, 1972.
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1984
Michael Sharpe
Professor Emeritus
Probability Theory
Ph.D., Yale University
Al Shenk
Professor Emeritus
Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis
Ph.D., Stanford University
Donald Smith
Professor Emeritus
Probability Theory, Differential Equations, Singular Perturbation Theory, Rotating Liquid Drops
Ph.D., Stanford University
Frank Thiess
Professor Emeritus
Probability Theory
Adrian Wadsworth
Professor Emeritus
Algebra, Commutative Algebra
Ph.D., University of Chicago
John Wavrik
Professor Emeritus
Algebra, Commutative Algebra, Computation
Ph.D., Stanford University