Projects & Positions
- ▪ Associate Provost for Education Innovation and Technology (Since May 2013)
- ▪ Director, Center for Academic Support and Assessment (CASA) (Since Spring 2004)
- ▪ Co-Director, High School Mathematics Contest at UH (Since 2006)
- ▪ Co-Director, HoustonACT, Offering Free AP Calculus Teacher Workshops (Since 2001)
- ▪ Faculty Sponsor, The Soaring Scarlet Skydiving Club (@uhsoaringscarlet)
- ▪ Former Co-Director & Founder, teachHOUSTON (Spring 2007 - Summer 2021)
- ▪ Former Department Chair, Math Dept (Fall 2003 - Summer 2013)
- ▪ Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston (Since Fall 2002)
- ▪ Professor of Mathematics, Texas A&M University (Fall 1986 - Spring 2002)
Recent Teaching
Fall 2026: Online Math 4364
Spring 2026: Math 2415 & Online Math 4335
Fall 2025: Math 2414 & Online Math 3363
Spring 2025: Online Math 3363, 4364 & 5344
Fall 2024: Online Math 4335
Spring 2024: Online Math 4364 & 5344 (Numerical Analysis)
Fall 2023: Online Math 3363 (Intro to PDE)
Spring 2023: Online Math 2318 (Linear Algebra)
Previous Semesters: Math 1431, 1432, 2331, 3321, 4335, 4339, 4364, 4377, 5341, 5344, 5385, 5386, 6308, and more.
Research
Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Mathematical Biology
Selected Work since 2016
- Global Existence and Diffusive Limits for a Class of Nonlocal Reaction-Diffusion Systems with Md Shah Alam. arxiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.18645, June 2026.
- Existence, Stability and Optimal Drug Dosage for a Reaction-Diffusion System Arising in a Cancer Treatment with Bao Q. Tang and Hong-Ming Yin. Communications in Mathematical Sciences (2026), Vol. 24, Number 6, 1543-1561.
- Singular limit and convergence rate via projection method in a model for plant-growth dynamics with autotoxicity with Cinzia Soresina, Bao Quoc Tang, Bao-Ngoc Tran. Journal of Differential Equations (2026) 452:113797.
- On Quasi-Linear Reaction Diffusion Systems Arising from Compartmental SEIR Models with Juan Yang and Bao Quoc Tang. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (2024) 31, No. 98.
- Global Well-Posedness and Asymptotic Behavior for a Reaction-Diffusion System of Competition Type with Samia Zermani. Results in Applied Mathematics, Vol 23, August 2024, 100486.
- Global Well-posedness For Volume-Surface Reaction-Diffusion Systems with Bao Quoc Tang. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 25, No. 4 (2023).
- Global existence for reaction-diffusion systems on multiple domains with William E. Fitzgibbon and John Ryan. Axioms 2022, 11, 335.
- New Insights into a Pandemic SIR Model for Control and Public Health Intervention with Enrique Barbieri and William E. Fitzgibbon. 2021 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA).
- Global well-posedness and nonlinear stability of a chemotaxis system modeling multiple sclerosis with Laurent Desvillettes, Valeria Giunta and Bao Quoc Tang. Proc. A Royal Soc. Edinburgh, 152, 826–856, 2022.
- A Diffusive SEIR Model for Community Transmission of Covid-19 Epidemics: Application to Brazil with W.E. Fitzgibbon, Glenn F. Webb and Yixiang Wu. Mathematics in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2021).
- Analysis of a Reaction-Diffusion Epidemic Model with Asymptomatic Transmission with W.E. Fitzgibbon, G.F. Webb and Y. Wu. Journal of Biological Systems, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2020), 561-587.
- Predicting the end-stage of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil with W.E. Fitzgibbon, G.F. Webb and Y. Wu. medRxiv, May 28, 2020.
- Indirect Diffusion Effect in Degenerate Reaction-Diffusion Systems with Amit Einav and Bao Quoc Tang. Accepted to SIAM Math Anal., April 2020.
- A Coupled System Modelling the Aqueous Transport of an Infectious Pathogen to Regional Communities with W.E. Fitzgibbon, G.F. Webb and Y. Wu. Accepted to Journal of the Royal Society Interface, July 2020.
- Maritime Transport and the Threat of Bio Invasion and the Spread of Infectious Disease with W.E. Fitzgibbon, G.F. Webb and Y. Wu. Computation and Big Data for Transport, Springer 2020.
- Boundedness for reaction-diffusion systems with Lyapunov functions and intermediate sum conditions with Bao Quoc Tang. Accepted to Nonlinearity, April 2020.
- Global Existence of Solutions to Volume-Surface Reaction-Diffusion Systems with Dynamic Boundary Conditions with V. Sharma. Differential and Integral Equations, Volume 33, Number 3-4 (2020), 113-138.
- Uniform-in-time Bounds for Quadratic Reaction-Diffusion Systems with Mass Dissipation in Higher Dimensions with Klemens Fellner and Bao Quoc Tang. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series S, Vol 14, Number 2, February 2021, 635-651.
- Global Classical Solutions to Quadratic Systems with Mass Control in Arbitrary Dimensions with Klemens Fellner and Bao Quoc Tang. Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Volume 37, Issue 2, March-April 2020, 281-307.
- Spatial Models of Vector-Host Epidemics with Directed Movement of Vectors Over Long Distances with W.E. Fitzgibbon, G.F. Webb and Y. Wu. Mathematical Biosciences 312, 77-87, 2019.
- Analysis of a Reaction Diffusion Model for a Reservoir Supported Spread of Infectious Disease with W.E. Fitzgibbon. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-B, November 2019 (11), 6239-6259.
- A Vector-Host Epidemic Model with Spatial Structure and Age of Infection with W.E. Fitzgibbon, G.F. Webb and Y. Wu. Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications 41, 692-705, 2018.
- An Outbreak Vector-host Epidemic Model with Spatial Structure: The 2015 Zika Outbreak in Rio de Janeiro with W.E. Fitzgibbon and G.F. Webb. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 14 (1), 7, 2017.
- Uniform Bounds for Solutions to Volume-Surface Reaction Diffusion Systems with V. Sharma. Differential and Integral Equations 30 (5/6), 423-442, 2017.
- Finite Element Approximation of a Spatially Structured Metapopulation with PDE Model with Marcus R. Garvie and V. Sharma. Computers & Mathematics and Applications, Vol, 74, No. 5, 2017, 934-947.
- Global Existence of Solutions to Reaction Diffusion Systems with Mass Transport Type Boundary Conditions with V. Sharma. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 48 (6), 4202-4240, 2016.