MENTORS

John Clifford

John Clifford, Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Clifford earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1998.  His main research interest is operator theory on spaces of holomorphic functions. In particular, the study of composition operators on the Hardy space. 


Thomas Fiore

Thomas Fiore, Professor of Mathematics. After his 2005 Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Dr. Fiore was an L.E. Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago, and a Profesor Visitante at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In 2011 he and his coauthors were awarded the Hasse Prize of the Mathematical Association of America for their article "Musical Actions of Dihedral Groups." From 2013 to 2018 he was a co-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Mathematics and Music. Professor Fiore's research interests are mathematical music theory, higher category theory, algebraic topology, and machine learning.


Kelly Jabbusch

Kelly Jabbusch, Associate Professor of Mathematics.  Dr. Jabbusch earned her B.A. in mathematics and German from Willamette University, and she earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Washington in 2007. Before joining UM-Dearborn in 2012, she held postdoctoral positions in Germany (University of Cologne and University of Freiburg) and in Sweden (KTH, Stockholm), and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Valparaiso University.  Dr. Jabbusch's research expertise is in algebraic geometry.  She has mentored REU students on projects related to error correcting codes coming from toric varieties. 


Hyejin Kim

Hyejin Kim, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Kim earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009. She was a postdoc fellow at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Michigan State University before she joined to the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 2014. Her main research interests lie in the area of probability theory and stochastic processes. 


Joan Remski

Joan Remski, Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Remski earned her Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Michigan State University in 1997. Her research interests involve the study of numerical methods for partial differential equations. She serves as Program Director for the M.S. in Applied and Computational Mathematics and coordinates the Active Calculus group at UM-Dearborn. 


Aditya Viswanathan

Aditya Viswanathan, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Viswanathan earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2010. Before joining UM-Dearborn in 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences department at Caltech, and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Mathematics at Michigan State University. His research interests include applied and computational harmonic analysis, signal processing, and scientific computing. He has mentored REU students in projects on computational electromagnetics, Fourier approximation, and phaseless imaging.



Tian An Wong

Tian An Wong, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Wong earned their Ph.D. from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center in 2016. Their main research interest is in number theory and representation theory related to the Langlands program. 


Yunus E. Zeytuncu

Yunus E. Zeytuncu, Associate Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Zeytuncu earned his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 2010. He was a visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M University before joining to the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 2013. As a research mathematician, he works in several complex variables and operator theory. Dr. Zeytuncu also coordinates the Maize and Blue Math Circle.