FWIMD 2025

Dr. Edwards is an assistant professor at FAU whose research focuses on mathematical foundations, algorithms, and applications which quantify shape in high-dimensional data sets. These combine approaches from topological data analysis, applied algebraic geometry, and machine learning. He completed an MSc in Mathematics & Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Oxford in 2016 and his PhD at the University of Florida in 2020. From 2020 to 2023, he was a Robert and Sara Lumpkins Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics Department at the University of Notre Dame. He has been at Florida Atlantic since August 2023. 

Dr. Stadnik's interests are in Algebraic and analytic number theory and math education. In her own research she solves algebraic problems using analytic and algebraic number theory techniques.  She also enjoys thinking about her teaching, and has explored student learning in calculus classes with a former colleague. She has worked for two summers with talented undergraduates on material  related to number theory research and sponsored nine senior research projects, two of which are published.  She is a former McNair Scholar and has been involved with SACNAS ( Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in the Sciences ), PME (Pi Mu Epsilon Math Honors Society), and KME (Kappa Mu Epsilon Math Honors Society) of fractual tilings, with Judith Palagallo.   

Dr. Bernadette Mullins joined Florida Polytechnic University in 2023 as a faculty member in the Department of Applied Mathematics. Prior to joining the University, she served on the faculty of Birmingham-Southern College from 2000-2023, holding positions including department chair and area chair, and at Youngstown State University during 1995-2000. She has published in commutative ring theory and the scholarship of teaching and learning, has served as co-investigator of a Math Science Partnership funded by the National Science Foundation, and is a textbook co-author. She is passionate about teaching mathematics using active learning in a student-centered classroom. 

Dipayan Das is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Florida Atlantic University. Previously, he was a Postdoc researcher at the NTT Social Informatics Laboratories in Japan. Before that, he was a PostDoc researcher at CISPA Helmholtz center for Information Security in Germany. He did his PhD at the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur in India.