Mathematics & Statistics | Full-Time Faculty & Staff

Instructor

Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Jeffrey Adler conducts research mainly in harmonic analysis and representation theory (which can be thought of as the study of symmetry from a formal point of view), and also occasionally supervises undergraduate research projects in other areas. Amo... [More]

Assistant Professor

After getting his PhD from Cornell University in 2006, Tuncay Alparslan served as an Assistant Professor at University of Nevada, Reno until he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at AU in 2009. His primary research interests are in p... [More]

Professor

Professor Stephen D. Casey is a founding member of the Editorial Board for Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing. His research is in complex and harmonic analysis with applications to signal processing. He has published nearly forty articles... [More]

Associate Professor

Prior to coming to AU in 2002, Dr Elezi held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University and Brigham Young University. His research interests are in string theory/high energy physics and more recently in coding theory and cryptography. Currently he... [More]

Professor

Enayat is a Professor of Mathematics at American University . He has been at AU since eternity (more precisely, 1987), except for his periods of sabbatical/research leave: he spent Fall 1993 in Tehran, Iran, as a faculty member at Sharif University o... [More]

Professor

A statistician and lawyer, Professor Gray’s areas of research include applications of statistics to human rights, economic equity, legal issues, and education. She is the founder of the Association for Women in Mathematics, a fellow of the American S... [More]

Professor

Jeffrey Hakim’s research primarily lies within the broad mathematical areas of representation theory and harmonic analysis. Most recently, he has focused on supercuspidal representations and symmetric spaces over p-adic fields. His papers have also i... [More]

Associate Professor

Monica Christine Jackson was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She obtained a B.S. and M.S. degree in mathematics from Clark Atlanta University. She completed a PhD in applied mathematics and computational science from University of Maryland.... [More]

Director M/S Educational Services

Professor

Robert W. Jernigan holds a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida and is a Professor of Statistics at AU. He was formerly Senior Statistician, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Statistical Policy Branch and Visiting Researcher at the Smithson... [More]

Professor

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Professorial Lecturer

Alexandra Kapatou grew up in the sunny, Mediterranean country of Greece. Her studies in Greece included mathematics, architectural and freehand drawing, and geology. After arriving in the US, and after some graduate studies in geosciences and geostat... [More]

Director of Undergraduate Studies

After obtaining a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Washington studying representation of real reductive Lie groups, Dr. Keynes was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley studying mathematics education. Before arriving at American Universi... [More]

Instructor

Associate Professor

Dr. Lansky attended Brown University as an undergraduate. He graduated magna cum laude with Honors in 1993 with an ScB degree in mathematics and physics. He did his graduate study at Harvard University, receiving an AM in 1995 and a PhD in 1998. He h... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Mike Limarzi earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2011 focusing in algebraic number theory. He received his bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, spending a semester abroad in Florence, Italy. He has taught a variety of mathemati... [More]

Associate Professor

Jun Lu got his Bachelor's degree in statistics from East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, his hometown. he then went to University of Missouri-Columbia, from where he received his Ph.D. in 2004. Since then, he has been a faculty member at ... [More]

Staff Assistant

Associate Professor

Professor Malloy received her PhD in Statistics from the University of New Mexico, where she taught Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers, College Algebra, Calculus, Introduction to Statistics, and the Elements of Probability and Statistics. Dr.... [More]

Assistant Professor

Inga Maslova received her BS in Mathematical Statistics from Vilnius University, Lithuania. She got her MS and PhD in Statistics from Utah State University. She joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at American University in 2009. Her p... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Jaime Miller began teaching at American University in Fall 2006 after completing her Master's degree in Mathematics. Jaime became particularly interested in the area of Differential Geometry while working on her undergraduate honor's thesis. Her grad... [More]

Administrative Coordinator

Assistant Professor

Professor

Prof. Nolan has taught at the University of Zambia (in Africa), and Kenyon College (in Ohio), and worked in a software company before coming to American University. His main research interests are in probability theory, with a focus on heavy tailed s... [More]

Instructor

Instructor Okoth earned a MS in Statistics from the university of Wyoming. As a graduate student, he conducted research in the statistical analysis of bird populations in New Zealand as well as helping undergraduate students experiencing difficulties... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Prior to joining AU, Dr. Maria K. Pospieszalska held research scientist positions at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Cardiovascular Research Center, University ... [More]

Instructor

Vietnam War veteran, USAF(1969-1971), AU Grad student 1972-1979 (MS Technology of Management-30 hrs statistics), Passed PhD comps in Statistics 1978, Tutored PhD candidates in mathematical statistics and probability theory; Statistician at Institute ... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

John is from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned a PhD in Mathematics from Penn State University in 2010 before coming to AU. His mathematical interests include operator algebras and group representations.

Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies

Lyn Stallings is Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at American University. She served as chair of the Faculty Senate in 2009 and Past Chair in 2010. She received the American Un... [More]

Associate Professor

Before moving to Washington DC in 2000, Professor Van Dyke lived in New Haven, Connecticut for 16 years. During the 80’s, she taught at Albertus Magnus College and in the 90’s she taught at Central Connecticut State University.