Dominic Gold is a 5th year graduate teaching assistant at Florida Atlantic University who studies both cryptography and data science, with his main interest in secure/privacy-preserving machine learning on encrypted data. The intersectionality of his research in homomorphic encryption and topological data analysis shows promising implications for research in both fields. The ultimate goal of this work is to enable real-time predictions on encrypted data.

Outside of academics, Dominic Gold has also worked for multiple start-up companies using his expertise in both cryptography and data science. He is currently applying for the NSF Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the aim to enter an academic profession.

Melissa De Jesus is a current PhD student in Applied Mathematics at Florida International University working with nonlocal mathematical models. Previously, she received her master’s degree from Florida Atlantic University in May of 2020. Currently, she is focusing on modeling phase separation with subdiffusion processes.

I’m Lubna Kadhim, I’m a mathematics lecturer at Morgan State University. I received my bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Baghdad University in 1995. I taught high school math for many years until I migrated to the US 10 years ago. I enrolled Master’s Program in 2018 at Morgan State University then I received my degree in Spring 2020 in Biomathematics, I immediately started working on my PHD in Fall 2021 and I anticipate to graduate in 2025 which will be in pure Mathematics. During the period from 2018 to 2021, I worked as a TA (Teaching Assistant) at the University then last year (2022) I started working as a full-time lecturer

My name is Albert Madinya. I am a left-handed, Spanish speaking, Taylor Swift music loving, aspiring mathematician student here at FAU. I was born in the Bronx, N.Y. by South American parents. I moved to Florida when I was 11 years old. At the age of 26 I decided to go to college.  So far I've managed to obtain both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mathematics here at FAU. I am currently working on my doctoral degree under the guidance of my Ph.D. advisor Dr. Papiya Bhattacharjee. 

Ruchita earned her bachelor’s degree in General Science from Panjab University in India in 2014. She taught high school mathematics for one year in India. She came to the United States in 2016 and got admitted in Respiratory Therapy Program but soon she realized her interest in Mathematics. She worked as a laboratory technician in Baltimore City Community College for one year. In 2019, she got admitted in Morgan State University’s Master of Arts Program in Mathematics. Ruchita started teaching as a graduate teaching assistant at Morgan State University in Fall 2019. She has studied under the supervision of Dr. Ahlam Tannouri. Her research interest is to create new mathematical algorithms to design Machine Learning models. She graduated from Morgan State University in December 2020 and is working as a mathematics lecturer at Morgan state University ever since.

Chunmei Wang is an expert in computational mathematics. Her main research interests are in finite element methods, weak Galerkin methods and deep learning methods for solving PDEs.