Engaged Faculty

Our faculty members are scholars who actively contribute to their disciplines of interest — such as linear algebra, operations research, graph theory, differential equations, probability, statistics, approximation theory, dynamical systems, numerical analysis, wavelet analysis, enumerative combinatorics, spline functions, computational mathematics, design theory, algorithmic number theory, cryptography, functional differential equations, stability theory, monotone iterative techniques and generalized quasi-linearization.

Our students have contact with these active professionals from day one as freshmen.

Our faculty welcome student collaboration, both in class and through independent research projects under their guidance.

Zahia Drici

Professor and Chair of Mathematics Department

Research interests include: Ordinary differential equations and dynamical systems, difference and functional equations, integral equations, and electromagnetic theory and its applications.

Contact:
zdrici@iwu.edu

Tian-Xiao He

Earl and Marian A. Beling Professor of Natural Sciences and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Research interests include: Spline functions, approximation theory, wavelet analysis, numerical analysis, enumerative combinatorics, and some topics in computational mathematics.

Contact:
the@iwu.edu

Seung-Hwan Lee

Professor of Mathematics

Research interests include: Non- and semi-parametric statistical analysis.

Contact:
slee2@iwu.edu

Daniel Roberts

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Research interests include:Decompositions, embeddings, and labelings of graphs, digraphs, and hypergraphs.

Contact:
drobert1@iwu.edu

Andrew Shallue (affiliated faculty member)

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Research interests include: Algorithmic number theory and its applications to cryptography.

Contact:
ashallue@iwu.edu

Melvyn Jeter

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Research interests include: Convexity, linear algebra, mathematical programming, and linear complementarity theory.

Contact:
mjeter@iwu.edu

Trevor Jack

Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics

My research interests are in semigroups and computational complexity, particularly checking if a semigroup given by generators exhibits some specified property (e.g. regularity, nilpotency). I also study generalizations of conjugacy to semigroups, especially inverse semigroups.

Contact:
tjack@iwu.edu

Bryanna Petentler

Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics

She received her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Iowa. She currently works on equations describing fluid dynamics, but also has an interest in modeling population dynamics for animals and prehistoric human populations. She is also interested in anthropology and participated in an archeology dig in 2016. She received her undergraduate degree in mathematics and anthropology from Illinois State University and is very excited to be back in Bloomington-Normal.

Contact:
bpetentl@iwu.edu