Personnel

Dr. Fernando Piñero González is from Carolina, P.R. He holds a B.Sc. (2006) and a M.Sc.  (2010) from University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. He also has a Ph.D. (2015)  under the advisory of Peter Beelen and Tom Hoholdt from the Technical University of Denmark. He also was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay under the supervision of Sudhir Ghorpade. In 2016 he joined the University of Puerto Rico at Ponce. Currently he has a dual appointment between University of Puerto Rico in Ponce and University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras.

Fernando has always loved mathematics and sharing mathematics with others. Running an REU since 2019 has given Fernando the privilege of sharing cutting edge mathematical research with bright, motivated students. In particular sharing the love of research with those students who may not have such opportunities otherwise. Some of his research interests include: algebraic coding theory, codes based on graphs, locally recoverable codes, binary Goppa codes, subfield subcodes and linear codes from the Grassmannian. 

Dr. Pamela E. Harris is a Mexican-American mathematician and serves as Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her B.S. from Marquette University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Pamela E. Harris's research is in algebraic combinatorics and she is the author of over 70 peer-reviewed research articles in internationally recognized journals. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the Association for Women in Mathematics. Dr. Harris is also an award winning mathematical educator, receiving the 2022 MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Excellence in Mathematical Education. She has supervised the research of over 120 undergraduate students, a majority of whom identify as members of groups historically excluded in higher education, has served as a research faculty mentor for undergraduate research programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics.

Dr. Jennifer Elder earned both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Mathematics at Fresno State. Her Master’s Thesis was a problem related to cycle decompositions of permutations. After graduating in 2016, she went on to earn a PhD in Mathematics from Arizona State University in 2021. Her Dissertation research was in Combinatorics, also on permutation properties. After her PhD, she spent two years as a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Rockhurst University in Kansas City Missouri, and was a Postdoc TA for the 2022 Summer@ICERM Undergraduate Research Program at Brown University.  As of Fall 2023, she is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Missouri Western State University in Saint Joseph Missouri. She is focused on teaching General Education Math classes, and is an active researcher in Combinatorics.

Lucy Martinez received her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, with a minor in computer science, from Stockton University in May 2021. As an undergraduate, she participated in two REUs. For the summer of 2019, Lucy participated in the MSRI-UP program at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath). In the summer of 2020, she participated in the REU with East Tennessee State University. She went on to graduate school at Rutgers University in the fall of 2021, where she is pursuing her PhD in Mathematics. She became a PhD candidate in December 2023. Her research interests are in experimental mathematics, combinatorics, and graph theory. For more information, visit her website https://marti310.github.io.