People

Keith Promislow, PI

Dept of Mathematics

Specialties:  Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard Free Energy, Hookean Voronoi Energy and Renormalization Group Dynamics 

Email: kpromisl@math.msu.edu    

Home page: Dr. Keith Promislow Group  


Mark Iwen, Co-PI

Dept of Mathematics & Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering 

Specialties: Scientific computing, Applied mathematics and data-driven modeling and computation

Email: markiwen@math.msu.edu    

Home page: Dr. Mark Iwen Group   

Huan Lei, Co-PI

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering & Dept of Statistics and Probability

Specialties:  Multi-scale modeling in fluid physics, materials science, and biophysics

Email:  leihuan@msu.edu 

Home page: Dr. Huan Lei Group  

Liz Munch, Co-PI

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering & Dept of Mathematics

Specialties: Topological Data Analysis, Applications to Plant Biology, 

Email: muncheli@msu.edu  

Home page: Dr. Elizabeth Munch Group 

Brian O’Shea, Co-PI

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering & Dept of Physics and Astronomy

Specialties:  Theoretical & Computational Astrophysics 

Email: oshea@msu.edu   

Home page: Dr. Brian O'Shea   

Adam Alessio, Co-I

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering (BME), and Radiology 

Specialties: Medical Imaging and Data Integration  

Email: aalessio@msu.edu    

Home Page: Dr. Adam Alessio Group  

March Boedihardjo, Co-I

Dept of Mathematics 

Specialties: High dimensional probability   

Email: boedihar@msu.edu    

Home Page: Coming soon (New Faculty)  

Vishnu Boddeti, Co-I

Dept of Computer Science

Specialties: Computational models for analyzing human attributes, behaviors, and interactions from data    

Email: vishnu@msu.edu    

Home Page: Dr. Vishnu Boddeti Group  

Alex Dickson, Co-I

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering & Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Specialties:  Pharmacological biophysics, Network modeling and Rare event sampling methods 

Email: alexrd@msu.edu

Home page: Dickson Lab @ MSU 

Tong (Tony) Gao, Co-I

Dept of Mechanical Engineering 

Specialties: Mathematical modeling and high-performance computing in multiscale fluid-structure interactions   

Email: gaotong@egr.msu.edu     

Home Page: Dr. Tong (Tony) Gao Group 

Wolfgang Kerzenvorf, Co-I

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering & Dept of Physics & Astronomy

Specialties: Astrophysics and machine learning   

Email: wkerzend@msu.edu 

Home Page: Dr. Wolfgang Kerzenvorf Group

Jun Kitagawa, Co-I

Dept of Mathematics 

Specialties: Optimal Transportation, Partial Differential Equations, Differential Geometry, Numerical Methods    

Email: kitagawa@math.msu.edu     

Home Page: Dr. Jun Kitagawa Group  

Michael S. Murillo, Co-I

Dept of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialties:  Computational plasma physics and agent-based modeling 

Email: murillom@msu.edu  

Home Page: Dr. Michael S. Murillo Group

Jianliang Qian, Co-I

Dept of Mathematics and Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering 

Specialties: Big-data analysis, geophysical inversion and medical imaging    

Email: jqian@msu.edu      

Home Page: Dr. Jianliang Qian Group  

Ekaterina Rapinchuk, Co-I

Dept of Mathematics and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

Specialties: Graph-based methods, semi-supervised learning, image processing   

Email: merkurje@msu.edu    

Home Page: Dr. Ekaterina Rapinchuk Group   

Sai Ravishankar, Co-I

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering 

Specialties: Signal and image processing, computational and biomedical imaging    

Email: ravisha3@msu.edu     

Home Page: Dr. Sai Ravishankar Group  

Rongrong Wang, Co-I

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, and Mathematics 

Specialties: Compressed sensing, sigma delta quantization, frame theory, sparse signal, inverse problems, seismic imaging    

Email: wangron6@msu.edu     

Home Page: Dr. Rongrong Wang Group  

Hui-Chia Yu, Co-I

Dept of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering

Specialties: Meso- and micro-scale modeling, simulations of electrochemical dynamics  

Email: hcy@msu.edu   

Home Page: Dr. Hui-Chia Yu Group  

Mengsen Zhang, Co-I

Dept of Mathematics

Specialties: Topological Data Analysis    

Email: mengsen@msu.edu     

Home Page: Dr. Mengsen Zhang Group

Anna Brandl 

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering 

Research Topic:  Bridge Microstructure to Homogeneous Electrode Simulations

Advisor: Prof. Hui-Chia Yu   


Jason Curtachio 

Dept of Mathematics 

Research Topic:  Using Machine Learning to Improve the Phase Retrieval Process for Near-Field Ptychography

Advisor: Prof. Mark Iwen   


Nicholas Heilman 

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering 

Research Topic:  Implementation of AI in Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations

Advisor: Prof. Tony Gao  


Zenas Huang 

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering 

Research Topic:  Modeling and Context Representations of Multimodal Medical Data

Advisor: Prof. Adam Alessio  


David E. Munoz 

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering 

Research Topic:  Directed Graph Persistence for Evaluating Simulated Data

Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth Munch  


Jared Reiling 

Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering 

Research Topic:  Multiscale Modeling of Naturalistic Behavior and Brain Dynamics in Humans and Animals

Email: reiling1@msu.edu

Advisor: Prof. Mengsen Zhang 


Andrew Jason Christlieb, Internal Advisory Board Director

MSU Foundation Professor; Professor of mathematics 

Specialties: Multi-scale modeling, high order numerical methods, and sub-linear lossy compression algorithms 

Email: christli@msu.edu    

Home Page: Dr. Andrew Christlieb Group

Erin Purcell, Internal Advisory Board member

Associate professor of Biomedical Engineering

Email: epurcell@msu.edu   

Home Page: Dr. Erin Purcell Group

Arun A. Ross, Internal Advisory Board member 

Martin J. Vanderploeg Endowed Professor in the College of Engineering; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering 

Email: rossarun@msu.edu    

Home Page: Dr. Arun Ross Group

Shinhan Shiu, Internal Advisory Board member

Co-Investigator in Bioenergy Crop Productivity & Microbiome; Professor of Plant Biology 

Email: shius@msu.edu   

Home Page: Dr. Shinhan Shiu Group