Full-Time Faculty

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has 28 full-time dedicated faculty members. A * next to a name indicates Graduate Faculty Status.

Dr. Sandra Chincholkar, Ph.D.

Senior College Lecturer
Office: RT 1551
Email: s.chincholkar@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7159
 

*Prof. Mohamed El Khouly

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

*Dr. Yiying (Richard) Fan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director and Advisor for MS in Statistics and Analytics
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

*Dr. 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

*Dr. Federico Galetto (Fred), Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Office: RT 1219
Email: f.galetto@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4696
Expertise: Commutative and Homological Algebra, Algebraic Geometry.
 

*Dr. Daozhou Gao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Office: RT 1536
Email: d.gao51@csuohio.edu
Phone: 216-523-7157
Expertise: Disease Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, Partial Differential Equations
 

*Dr. John Holcomb, Ph.D.

Interim Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Professor
Office: AC 340
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.

*Dr. Alex Hoover, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Advisor for Certificate in Computational and Applied Modeling
Office: RT 1523
Email: a.p.hoover@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4693
Expertise: Mathematical Biology, Computational Biology, Fluid Dynamics
 

*Dr. 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, Ranking Techniques, Simulation, Spatial Statistics, Statistical Methods for Imaging, and Survival Analysis.
 

Mary Koshar

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

 

*Dr. 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
 

*Dr. Daniel Munther, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director and Advisor for MS in Mathematics
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.
 

*Dr. Ariadni Papana, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Office: RT 1508
Email: a.papanadagiasis@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7158
Expertise: High Dimensional Data, Genomics and Proteomics Data, Data Mining, Dimension Reduction, Graphical Methods, Design and analysis of Experiments, Functional Data, Variable Selection Methods and Ensemble Data.
 

Tasha Preisler

Associate College Lecturer
Office: RT 1549
Email: t.preisler@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-523-7161

*Dr. 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

Dr. 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

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

 

Todd Romutis

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

*Dr. Shawn Ryan, Ph.D.

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

Katie Sammon

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

*Dr. Jonathan Scott, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor in Mathematics
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

 

*Dr. Ivan Soprunov, Ph.D.

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

*Dr. Parthasarathy Srinivasan (Partha), Ph.D.

Professor
Office: RT 1534
Email: p.srinivasan35@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4705
Expertise: Mathematical Modeling, Chemotaxis, Cilia, Nitric oxide, ET-1, EPR, NMR, and Quadrupolar nuclei.

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

​Associate Professor, Associate Chair, and Undergraduate Advisor
Office: RT 1221
Email: l.gold33@csuohio.edu
Phone: (216)-687-4565
Expertise: Commutative Algebra, In Particular Properties of Minimal Free Resolutions Over Polynomial Rings, Relations Between Commutative Algebra and Coding Theory as well as Commutative Algebra and Rational Homotopy Theory.
 

Dr. Patrick Wachira, Ph.D.

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

*Dr. 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.