I am a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics at Wichita State University. My research is and has been partially supported by the National Science Foundation via DMS grants #2506633 (2025-2028), #2204324 (2022--2026), #1906404 (2019--2023), #1611780 (2016--2020) and by the Simons Foundation with a Travel Grant for Mathematicians #SFI-MPS-TSM-00012804 (2025--2030) and a Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians from the Simons Foundation #355508 (2015--2018).
I completed my PhD at the University of Maryland at College Park under the direction of Karsten Grove in 1992. My area of specialization is Differential Geometry with an emphasis on manifolds of positive and non-negative curvature with symmetries.