Ibrahim Ekren

Associate Professor of Mathematics

University of Michigan 

Department of Mathematics 

530 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Office: 2856 East Hall

Email: iekren@umich.edu

Bio :

Since 2023, I have been an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Here is my CV (updated 2024) and you may find my Google Scholar page .

From 2018 to 2023, I served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Florida State University. Prior to that, I was a Byrne Postdoctoral Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan from 2017 to 2018. From 2014 to 2017, I held a postdoctoral research position in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich.

Between 2010 and 2014, I pursued my Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Southern California under the supervision of Professor Jianfeng Zhang. In 2010, I earned both my master’s degree in Mathematics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie and my Diplôme d'Ingénieur from École Polytechnique.

Research Interests : 

• Stochastic Control Theory

• Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

• Partial Differential Equations

• Mathematical Finance

• Rough Paths

• Malliavin Calculus

• Online Learning

Grants : 

• NSF grant DMS-2406240 (2024-2027): $268,602

• NSF grant DMS-2007826 (2020-2024): $218,000

• FSU FYAP grant (2018): $20,000

Editorial Boards :

• Associate Editor: Finance and Stochastics

• Associate Editor: Applied Mathematics and Optimization

• Associate Editor: Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models 

Postdoc Mentorship : 

• Xihao He

• Guillermo Alvarez

• Eunjung Noh (2021-2023)

• Man Cheung Tsui (Teaching, 2021-2023)

• Patrick Heslin (Teaching, 2021-2023)

Ph.D. Supervision : 

• Lu Vy

• Liwei Huang

• Shreya Bose (graduated in 2023)

• Brad Mostowski (graduated in 2023)