Azita Mayeli

I am a Full Professor of Mathematics at the City University of New York (CUNY), with appointments at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan and Queensborough Community College in Queens

View full CV (as of Jan 2026)

I received my PhD in Mathematics from the Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany, in 2006, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Günter Schlichting and the co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Führ. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), the AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grant, a Simons Fellowship, the CUNY Chancellor’s Research Fellowship, and PSC-CUNY grants.

Organizer of:

CUNY GC Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminars at the Graduate Center

CUNY GC Analysis and PDE Students Learning Seminars at the Graduate Center, CUNY

The CUNY Data Science and Applied Topology Seminars at the Graduate Center

TRIPODS-STEMFORALL at the University of Rochester 

If you are interested in presenting at any of our upcoming seminars, please contact me by email at amayeli at gc.cuny.edu with your proposed topic and a brief bio.

PhD Students

• Luis Gomez (2026–present), jointly advised with Arie Israel

• Hana Huber (2025–present), jointly advised with Weilin Li

• Han Li (2019–2026), thesis on Whitney extension for Sobolev spaces; results published in Advances in Mathematics, 482(B), December 2025, 110617

• Thomas Fallon (2018–2023), completed a thesis on the Fuglede conjecture; results were published in the Journal of Journal of Functional Analysis, Volume 282, Issue 12, 15 June 2022, 109472, and the Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.

Master’s Students

• Phoebe Sarker (Hunter College, 2026)

• Jonathan Jamingal (Hunter College, 2025), collaborator on a paper in signal recovery, forthcoming in the Jean-Pierre Gabardo Volume Proceedings

• Luis Gomez (Hunter College, 2025), collaborator on a paper on eigenvalue distribution, accepted in RIMS

Postdoctoral and Visiting Scholars

• Postdoctoral Fellow (Fulbright Scholar): Gabor Somlai (January 2023–August 2023)

• Visiting Scholars:

  • Gergely Kiss, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary (June 2023)

  • Jeff Hogan, University of Newcastle, Australia (July 2023)

Research Interests

• Wave packets and applications

• Eigenvalue distributions of limiting operators

• Uncertainty principles, restriction theory, and signal recovery

• Time-frequency analysis and spectral theory

• Wavelets and frames

• Fuglede conjecture

• Harmonic and non-harmonic Fourier analysis and bases

Editorial Work

• Editor, Sampling Theory, Signal Processing, and Data Analysis (2025–present)

• Lead Guest Editor for the special issue of Sampling Theory, Signal Processing, and Data Analysis titled “Fuglede Conjecture and Related Problems in Analysis and Geometry”, with co-editors Alex Iosevich and Mihalis Kolountzakis

• Editor, International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing (active)

• Editor, Axioms (active)

• Guest Editor for the special issue of Axioms titled “Wavelet and Frame Constructions, with Applications”