CMB Members

UH Mathematics Department

• Simon Alexander, NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow. Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 2005. Image Analysis, Automatic Learning, Scientific Computation.
• Neal Amundson, Cullen Professor and member of National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Science; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1945. Applied mathematics.
• Giles Auchmuty, Professor; Ph.D., Chicago, 1970. Applied mathematics, variational methods and optimization theory.
• Robert Azencott, Professor (UH and Ecole Normale Sup.),PhD University Paris 1, 1970, Probability theory, Data Mining, Automatic learning, Image Analysis.
• Bernhard Bodmann, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Florida, 2001. Functional and harmonic analysis, frame theory and uncertainty principles.
• Suncica Canic, Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1992. Mathematical biology, nonlinear partial differential equations, applied mathematics.
• Cleopatra Christoforou, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Brown University, 2004. Nonilinear Partial Differential Equations; applied Mathematics.
• Edward Dean, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rice, 1985. Numerical analysis.
• William Fitzgibbon, Professor and Dean of the College of Technology; Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1972. Partial differential equations, applied mathematics, mathematical biology.
• Roland Glowinski, Cullen Professor, Director of Center for Advanced Scientific Computation and member of French Academy of Science; These d'Etat, Paris, 1970. Numerical analysis, applied mathematics.
• Giovanna Guidoboni, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Ferrara, 2004. Free Boundary Problems, Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems, Applied Mathematics.
• Jian Hao, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Houston, 2007. Cell adhesion and detachment, fluid-particle interactions, Newtonian/Non-Newtonian Fluids.
• Jiwen He, Professor; Ph.D., University of Paris VI, 1994. Numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and control theory.
• Ronald Hoppe, Professor; Ph.D., University of Technology Berlin, 1979. Numerical analysis, scientific computing, and optimization.
• Kresimir Josic, Associate Professor; Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1999. Dynamical systems, mathematical biology, and neuroscience.
• Edward Kao, Professor; Ph.D. Stanford, 1971, Stochastic Processes, financial mathematics.
• Yuri Kuznetsov, Professor; Ph.D., Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1969. Computational mathematics.
• Fabien Marpeau, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Andrey Martynenko, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Jeff Morgan, Professor; Ph.D., University of Houston, 1986. Reaction Diffusion Systems.
• Matthew Nicol, Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 1992. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical systems.
• Tsorng-Whay Pan, Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1990. Scientific computation, numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics.
• Manos Papadakis, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Athens, Greece, 1993. Wavelet analysis, frame theory, operator algebras, signal and image processing.
• Annalisa Quaini,Postdoctoral Research Fellow ;Ph.D.,Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, December 2008. Finite element methods, Computational fluid dynamics, hemodynamics, Fluid-structure interaction.
• Ilya Timofeyev , Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1998. Nonlinear stochastic behavior and statistical properties of spatially extended systems (PDE's).
• Andrew Török, Associate professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1995. Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, Stochastic Processes, Functional Analysis.
• David Wagner, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1980. Nonlinear partial differential equations.

• Matthew A. Franchek [ mfranchek@uh.edu ] Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering Director of Biomedical Engineering Program, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• Fazle Hussain [ fhussain@uh.edu ] Cullen Distinguished Professor Director, Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence Ph.D., Stanford University
• Ralph Metcalfe [ metcalfe@uh.edu ] Professor of Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Lewis T. Wheeler [ lwheeler@uh.edu ] Professor of Mechanical Engineering Director of MECE Graduate Studies Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

UH Biology and Biochemistry

• Ricardo Azevedo, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, UK, 1997. Modeling of developmental systems. Evolution of gene regulatory networks. Evolution of robustness and epistasis.
• Blaine Cole, Professor; Ph.D., Princeton University. How do biological networks evolve? I am particularly interested in social networks--networks of individuals.
• Tim Cooper , Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2000. Relationship between organism phenotype and network structure. Genetic basis of robustness and evolvability. Changes to regulatory networks during short- and long-term evolution.
• Tony Frankino, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University, 2000. I am involved in several collaborations aimed at developing and testing generalized, predictive developmental models of trait evolution.
• Xiaolian Gao, Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1986.
• Dan Graur, Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas, 1985. Evolution of genetic and genomic connectivity.
• Steven Pennings, Associate Professor ; Ph.D.,University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Multi-species interactions in biological communities. How top-down and bottom-up effects interact to structure communities. Geographic variation in the structure of food webs and the strength of ecological interactions.
• William Widger, Associate Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 1979. Control of metabolic pathways in bacteria by termination/antitermination function of rho termination factor. Rho is universally found in bacteria except cyanobacteria. To date the cellular function of rho has been elusive. We have shown that a network of genes related to stress, stationary phase and quorum sensing are up-regulated.
• Jokubas Ziburkus, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 2001. Neuronal networks: Microscopic dynamics of distinct neuronal and glial subpopulations underlying macroscopic neural pattern formation. Gene networks: Dynamics of pre-seizure gene networks.
• Rebecca Zufall, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Duke University, Durham, NC, 2003. The effects of pathway structure and genome architecture on molecular evolution.

UH Chemistry

• B. Montgomery Pettitt Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, Physics, Biology and Biochemistry, Director of the Institute for Molecular Design, Chair of the Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Biology, Ph.D., Universit y of Houston, 1980.

UH Physics

• Gemunu Gunaratne, Professor and Associate Chairman; Ph.D., in Physics, Cornell University, 1986. Bifurcations in Biological Networks: To use observed bifurcation in an incompletely known biological network to make verifiable predictions about the underlying system.

• Steven J. Cox, Professor Computational and Applied Mathematics, MS 134 Rice University, Affiliation: Baylor Neuroscience , GCC for Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience , Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering , Rice Cognitive Sciences Program Research , Publications , Bio-VIGRE, String-VIGRE.
• Katherine B. Ensor, Professor and Chair of Statistics, Time Series including Categorical Time Series, Spatial Statistics, Spatial-Temporal Methods, Stochastic Process Modeling and Estimation, Application Areas of Financial Modeling and Environmental Statistics
• Marek Kimmel, Professor of Statistics, Population Dynamics, Branching Processes, Statistical Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Bioinformatics
• Beatrice Riviere, Associate Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics Department; Numerical analysis, Scientific Computing and modeling
• Danny C. Sorensen, Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics Department; Numerical Linear Algebra for Large Scale Scientific Computing
• Marina Vannucci, Professor of Statistics, Theory and Methods: Bayesian Variable Selection, Wavelet Methods in Statistics., Applications: Bioinformatics, Chemometrics and Engineering

• Mauro Ferrari Professor and Director of Nanomedicine, Brown Institute of Molecular Medicine, Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
• Dr. Doreen Rosenstrauch
• Paolo Decuzzi, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor at the Center for Nanomedicine.
• Cristini, Vittorio, Ph.D.

• Dr. Craig J. Hartley, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Sciences,
• Dr. Rolando E. Rumbaut, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine, Physiologic and pathologic regulation of micro vascular permeability.

• Mauro Ferrari Professor and Director of Nanomedicine, Brown Institute of Molecular Medicine, Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
• Gordon B. Mills, M.D., Ph.D, Chairman, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, Professor of Medicine
• Gábor Balázsi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

• Josip Tambaca Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Applied Mathematics, mathematical biology, partial differential equations, numerical methods.

• Andro Mikelic Professor, University of Lyon1, France. Applied Mathematics, homogenization theory, partial differential equations.