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  • Louis Jack Nachman, Chair and Professor
    Ph.D. Ohio State University
    Areas of Interest: Computational Geometry (Curves and Surfaces), Computer Graphics, General Topology, Topological Dynamics
    Office: 368 SEB // 248-370-3430
    Antispam e-mail: nachman AT oakland DOT edu

  • Kevin T. Andrews, Professor
    Ph.D. University of Illinois
    Areas of Interest: Applicable Analysis, Functional Analysis, Operator Theory
    Office: 451 SEB // Phone: 248-370-4025
    Antispam e-mail: andrews AT oakland DOT edu

  • Baruch Cahlon, Professor
    Ph.D. Tel Aviv University (Israel)
    Areas of Interest: Numerical Analysis, Integral Equations, Delay Differential Equations
    Office: 550 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3435
    Antispam e-mail: cahlon AT oakland DOT edu

  • Charles Ching-an Cheng, Professor
    Ph.D. Rutgers University
    Areas of Interest: Computer Algebra, Discrete Algorithms, Homological Algebra and Category Theory
    Office: 454 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3444
    Antispam e-mail: cheng AT oakland DOT edu

  • Eddie Cheng, Professor
    Ph.D. University of Waterloo (Canada)
    Recipient of 2007 Mathematical Association of America (Michigan Section) Distinguished Teaching Award
    Areas of Interest: Combinatorial Optimization, Linear and Integer Programming, Network Analysis
    Office: 348 SEB // Phone: 248-370-4024
    Antispam e-mail: echeng AT oakland DOT edu

  • J. Curtis Chipman, Professor
    Ph.D. Dartmouth College
    Areas of Interests: Combinatorial Homotopy Theory, Combinatorics, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Data Structures
    Office: 444 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3440
    Antispam e-mail: chipman AT oakland DOT edu

  • David J. Downing, Associate Professor
    Ph.D. University of Iowa
    Interim Vice Provost, Graduate Education and Academic Administration
    Recipient of 1983 Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award

  • Dorin Drignei, Assistant Professor
    Ph.D. Iowa State University
    Areas of Interest: Design and analysis of computer experiments, parameter estimation in nonlinear models, space-time modeling
    Office: 367 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3425
    Antispam e-mail: drignei AT oakland DOT edu

  • Jerrold Grossman, Professor, on leave
    Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Recipient of 1992 Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award
    Recipient of 1994 Mathematical Association of America (Michigan Section) Distinguished Teaching Award
    Recipient of 2005 Mathematical Association of America (Michigan Section) Distinguished Service Award
    Areas of Interest: Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematical Collaboration, Elementary Number Theory
    Office: 346 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3443
    Antispam e-mail: grossman AT oakland DOT edu

  • Bo-nan Jiang, Associate Professor
    Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
    Areas of Interest: Finite Element Method in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Electromagnetics and Solid Mechanics
    Office: 349 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3446
    Antispam e-mail: bjiang AT oakland DOT edu

  • Ravindra Khattree, Professor
    Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
    Winner of Young Statistician Award, International Indian Statistical Association (2002)
    Fellow of the American Statistical Association (inducted 2003)
    Elected Member of International Statistical Institute (elected in 2004)
    Recipient of 2008 Oakland University Research Excellence Award
    Areas of Interest: Multivariate Analysis, Experimental Designs, Statistical Quality Control, Biostatistics, Classification problems and Bioequivalence
    Office: 551 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3448
    Antispam e-mail: khattree AT oakland DOT edu

  • Serge Kruk, Associate Professor
    Ph.D. University of Waterloo (Canada)
    Areas of Interest: Optimization, Constraint Programming and Numerical Analysis
    Office: 548 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3428
    Antispam e-mail: kruk AT oakland DOT edu

  • Robert Kushler, Associate Professor
    Ph.D. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    Areas of Interest: Statistical Computing, Statistical Modeling, Industrial Statistics
    Office: 344 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3445
    Antispam e-mail: kushler AT oakland DOT edu

  • Laszlo Liptak, Associate Professor
    Ph.D. Yale University
    Areas of Interest: Combinatorics, alpha-critical graphs, stable set polytope, Lovasz-Schrijver operator, 0-1 optimization, Interconnection Networks
    Office: 347 SEB // Phone: 248-370-4054
    Antispam e-mail: liptak AT oakland DOT edu

  • Theophilus Ogunyemi, Associate Professor
    Ph.D. Kansas State University
    Areas of Interest: Inference Functions, Bayesian Inference, Stochastic Processes
    Office: 373 SEB // Phone: 248-370-2890
    Antispam e-mail: ogunyemi AT oakland DOT edu

  • Subbaiah Perla, Professor
    Ph.D. University of Rochester
    Areas of Interest: Multivariate Statistical Methods, Quality Control and Reliability
    Office: 544 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3429
    Antispam e-mail: perla AT oakland DOT edu

  • Harvey Qu, Assistant Professor
    Ph.D. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    Areas of Interest: Design of Experiment, Computer Experiments, Industrial Statistics
    Office: 371 SEB // Phone: 248-370-4029
    Antispam e-mail: qu AT oakland DOT edu

  • Darrell Schmidt, Professor
    Ph.D. Montana State University
    Recipient of 1999 Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award
    Areas of Interest: L1-approximation, Constrained Approximation, Numerical Solution of Integral Equations, Delay Differential Equations
    Office: 552 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3433
    Antispam e-mail: schmidt AT oakland DOT edu

  • Irwin E. Schochetman, Professor
    Ph.D. University of Maryland at College Park
    Areas of Interest: Mathematical Optimization, Infinite Mathematical Programming and Infinite Horizon Optimization
    Office: 553 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3434
    Antispam e-mail: schochet AT oakland DOT edu

  • Tony Shaska, Assistant Professor
    Ph.D. University of Florida
    Areas of Interest: Computational Algebraic Geometry, Galois Theory, Algebraic Curves and their Applications
    Office: 546 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3436
    Antispam e-mail: shaska AT oakland DOT edu

  • Peter Shi, Associate Professor
    Ph.D. University of Delaware
    Areas of Interest: P.D.E., Solid Mechanics, Numerical Analysis and Math. Modeling
    Office: 452 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3427
    Antispam e-mail: pshi AT oakland DOT edu

  • Meir Shillor, Professor, on leave
    Ph.D. Hebrew University (Israel)
    Recipient of 2002 Oakland University Research Excellence Award
    Areas of Interests: Applications of Partial Differential Equations and Inequalities to Models of Industrial Processes, Nonsmooth Mechanics
    Office: 554 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3439
    Antispam e-mail: shillor AT oakland DOT edu

  • Anna Spagnuolo, Associate Professor
    Ph.D. Purdue University
    Areas of Interests: Fluid Flow in Porous Media, Numerical Analysis, Modeling, Computation, Immuno Biology and Disease Processes
    Office: 345 SEB // Phone: 248-370-4032
    Antispam e-mail: spagnuol AT oakland DOT edu

  • Sze-Kai Tsui, retired
    Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

  • J. Barry Turett, Professor, on leave
    Ph.D. University of Illinois
    Areas of Interest: Geometry of Banach Spaces, Function Spaces
    Office: 450 SEB // Phone: 248-370-4023
    Antispam e-mail: turett AT oakland DOT edu

  • Stuart S. Wang, Professor, on medical leave
    Ph.D. Cornell University
    Areas of Interest: Jacobian Conjecture, Automorphisms of Polynomial Rings, Separable Algebras
    Office: 448 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3441
    Antispam e-mail: swang AT oakland DOT edu

  • Stephen J. Wright, Professor
    Ph.D. Indiana University
    Areas of Interest: Differential Equations, Functional Analysis, Operator Algebras, Number Theory
    Office: 453 SEB // Phone: 248-370-4028
    Antispam e-mail: wright AT oakland DOT edu

  • Wen Zhang, Associate Professor
    Ph.D. Southern Methodist University
    Areas of Interest: Scientific Computation including Numerical Analysis and Parallel Computation, Applied Differential Equations
    Office: 350 SEB // Phone: 248-370-3442
    Antispam e-mail: w2zhang AT oakland DOT edu

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    Adjunct and Visiting Faculty

  • Gary McDonald, Adjunct Professor
    Ph.D., D.Sc. (honoris causa) Purdue University
    Fellow of the American Statistical Association (inducted 1982)
    Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (inducted 1986)
    Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (inducted 1990)
    Recipient of the 2007 American Statistical Association Founders Award
    Areas of Interest: Decision Theory, Linear Models, Data Analysis, Ranking and Selection, Ridge Analysis
    Office: 369 SEB // Phone:
    Antispam e-mail: mcdonald AT oakland DOT edu

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    Associated Faculty

    Part-Time Faculty (Winter 2008)

  • Sharon Bailey, Special Lecturer
    M.S. Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago
    Office: 363 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4022
    Antispam e-mail: bailey AT oakland DOT edu

  • Jay Burke, Special Lecturer
    M.A. Oakland University
    Office: 361 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4033
    Antispam e-mail: jcburke AT oakland DOT edu

  • Ada Dong, Special Lecturer
    Ph.D. Oakland University
    Office: 391 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4031
    Antispam e-mail: dong AT oakland DOT edu

  • William Hamilton, Special Lecturer
    M.S. Oakland University
    Office: 361 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4033
    Antispam e-mail: whamilto AT oakland DOT edu

  • Jane Mullally, Special Lecturer
    M.A. Oakland University
    Office: 363 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4943
    Antispam e-mail: mullally AT oakland DOT edu

  • Mark Near, Special Lecturer
    M.A. Oakland University,
    Office: 363 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4022
    Antispam e-mail: near AT oakland DOT edu

  • Carl Pasbjerg, Special Lecturer
    M.A. Oakland University
    Office: 363 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4944
    Antispam e-mail: cpasbjer AT oakland DOT edu

  • Annette Stanesa, Lecturer
    M.A. Oakland University
    Office: 363 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4022
    Antispam e-mail: stanesa AT oakland DOT edu

  • Toli Ilir, Special Lecturer
    Ph.D. University of Pisa
    Office: 389 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4037
    Antispam e-mail: toli AT oakland DOT edu

  • Sherri Zimmerman, Lecturer
    M.A. Oakland University
    Office: 363 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4944
    Antispam e-mail: zimmerm3 AT oakland DOT edu

  • Lonnie Vance, Lecturer
    Ph.D. Iowa State University
    Office: 393 SEB
    Phone: 248-370-4031
    Antispam e-mail: loonievance12 AT aol DOT com

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    Emeriti Faculty

  • Harvey Arnold, Ph.D. Princeton University
  • Louis Bragg, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin Recipient of 1982 Oakland University Research Excellence Award
  • John Dettman, Ph.D. Carnegie Institute of Technology
  • George Feeman, Ph.D. Lehigh University
  • William Hoffman, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
  • Philip Johnson, Ph.D. University of Minnesota
  • Donald Malm, Ph.D. Brown University
  • James McKay, Ph.D. University of Washington