Full-Time Faculty

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has 27 full-time dedicated faculty members. A * next to a name indicates Graduate Faculty Status.

Sandra Chincholkar, Ph.D.

Senior College Lecturer and Math Emporium Coordinator
Office: RT 1551
Email: s.chincholkar@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7159
Expertise: Developmental Mathematics
 

*Mohamed El Khouly, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Office: RT 1506
Email: m.elkhouly@csuohio.edu

*Yiying (Richard) Fan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Office: RT 1553
Email: y.fan67@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4706
Expertise: Data Mining, Features Selection, Statistical Process Control, Spatial and Temporal Statistical Modeling, Survival Analysis, Longitudinal Data Analysis, and Microarray Data Analysis.

Brian Feister

Assistant College Lecturer
Office: RT 1557
Email: b.feister@csuohio.edu

*Sara Froehlich, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Practice, OpSTEM and LSAMP Director, Calculus Coordinator, and Precalculus Coordinator
Office: RT 1448
Email: s.froehlich@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7160

*Federico (Fred) Galetto, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Office: RT 1219
Email: f.galetto@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Commutative and Homological Algebra, Algebraic Geometry.
 

*Daozhou Gao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Office: RT 1536
Email: d.gao51@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7157
Expertise: Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Epidemiology, Population Ecology, Differential Equations, Infectious Disease Modeling, Dynamical Systems.
 

*John Holcomb, Ph.D.

Professor
Office: RT 1556
Email: j.p.holcomb@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-5548
Expertise: Statistics, Measurement Error, Design of Experiments, Statistical Education, Hunger, Nutrition, Regression, Anova, and Statistical Consulting.

*Alex Hoover, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Office: RT 1523
Email: a.p.hoover@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4693
Expertise: Mathematical Biology, Computational Biology, Fluid Dynamics
 

*Sandra Hurtado Rua, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Office: RT 1510 
Email: s.hurtadorua@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7324
Expertise: Bayesian Models, Cure Rate Models, Meta-Analysis, Spatial Statistics, Statistical Methods for Imaging, and Survival Analysis.
 

Mary Koshar

Assistant College Lecturer
Office: RT 1527
Email: m.f.koshar@csuohio.edu

 

*Gregory Lupton, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair
Office: RT 1520
Email: g.lupton@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4681
Expertise: Rational Homotopy Theory, Algebraic Topology, Topological Complexity
 

*Daniel Munther, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Mathematics Graduate Program Director
Office: RT 1540
Email: d.munther@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7184
Expertise: Reaction-Diffusion-Advection Equations, Evolution of Dispersal, Mathematical Ecology, Mathematical Modeling, Cross-Contamination, and Food Supply Chain.
 

*Ariadni Papana, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Statistics Graduate Program Director
Office: RT 1508
Email: a.papanadagiasis@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-228-1593
Expertise: Statistical Machine Learning & Data Mining, High-Dimensional Data Analytics (Dimension Reduction, Variable Selection, Ensemble Methods), Genomics & Proteomics Data, Data Visualization & Graphical Methods, Time Series Analysis, Statistics Education Research & Generative AI in Teaching and Learning.
 

Tasha Preisler, M.S.

Associate College Lecturer
Office: RT 1549
Email: t.preisler@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Mathematics and Statistics.
 

*Linda Quinn, Ph.D.

Professor of Practice, Statistical Consultant, MTH 147 & 347 Coordinator, and Advisor for Certificate in Data Analytics and Graduate Certificate in Applied Predictive Modeling
Office: 1512
Email: l.quinn@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4691
Expertise: Statistics, Statistical Consulting, Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, and Research Methods

Ieda Rodrigues, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Office: RT 1535
Email: i.rodrigues@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7153
Expertise: Global Stability, Boundedness of Solutions, Periodicity, Recursions, and Difference Equations.

Jada Robinson, M.S.

Assistant College Lecturer
Office: RT 1555
Email: j.s.robinson17@csuohio.edu

 

Todd Romutis, Ph.D.

Associate College Lecturer and Associate Chair
Office: RT 1505
Email: t.romutis@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7163

*Shawn Ryan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Director, Advisor for MTH/STA Majors and Minors, Math Technology Coordinator, and co-Director of ADAM,  Undergraduate Advisor for Certificate in Computational and Applied Modeling
Office: RT 1538
Email: s.d.ryan@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4707
Expertise: Mathematical Biology, Partial Differential Equations, and Numerical Methods.
 

Katie Sammon

Visiting College Lecturer
Office: RT 1529
Email: k.f.sammon@csuohio.edu
 

*Jonathan Scott, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Office: RT 1213
Email: j.a.scott3@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7165
Expertise: Algebraic Topology, Operad, Homotopy Theory, Applied Topology, Persistent Homology, Steenrod Operation and Loop Space.
 

Justin Simmerer

Visiting College Lecturer
Office: RT 1528
Email: j.k.simmerer@csuohio.edu

 

*Ivan Soprunov, Ph.D.

Professor
Office: RT 1220
Email: i.soprunov@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4714
Expertise: Toric Varieties, Residues, Coding Theory, Lattice Polytopes, Mixed Volumes and Geometric Inequalities.
 

*Leah Stella (Leah Gold), Ph.D.

​Associate Professor, CSU Math Club Advisor, PME Chapter Advisor
Office: RT 1221
Email: l.gold33@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4565
Expertise: Computational Commutative Algebra.
 

Patrick Wachira, Ph.D.

Professor (Mathematics and Teacher Education)
Office: JH 313
Email: p.wachira@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-3747
 

*Yuping Wu, Ph.D.

Professor
Office: RT 1507
Email: y.wu88@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4684
Expertise: Bioinformatics, Functional Data Analysis, and Statistical Computing.