EDUCATION

• Pasadena City College, 1973-1974 (no degree).

• University of California, Santa Cruz: BA in Mathematics, 1978.

• University of California, Davis: M.A.T. in Mathematics (with a California High School Teaching Credential) 1980.

• University of California, Los Angeles: Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1984. (Advisor: Rick Durrett)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• California Community Teaching Fellow, University of California, Davis, 1978-1980. (Winters Elementary School. Most fun years as a teacher!)

• Student Teacher, Sacramento High School, 1978-1980.
  Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980-1984.

• Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1984-1986.

• Assistant Professor, Purdue University, 1986-1989.

• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1986-1987.(Advisor: Don Burkholder)

• Associate Professor, Purdue University, 1989-1992.
  Professor, Purdue University, 1992-present

• Interim Head, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, July 2005-December 2005

• Head, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, 2007--2011

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 1984-1986: Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology.

• 1986-1994: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana and Purdue University.

• 1989-1994: Presidential Young Investigator.

• 2004: Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

• 2004: Blackwell-Tapia Prize in Mathematics

• 2009: Outstanding Latino Award,  Purdue Latino Faculty and Staff Association

• 2013: Elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)

• 2017: Inaugural fellow Fellow, Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) (

• 2017: Martin Luther King Jr Dreamer Award, Purdue

• 2022: American Mathematical Society (AMS) Ward for Distinguished Public Service

• 2023: Elected Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• American Mathematical Society (AMS)

• Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Sciences (SACNAS)

• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

SERVICES TO THE  PROFESSION (SELECTED)

• Associate Editor, Annals of Probability, 1991-1996

• Probability and Statistics Editor, Transactions of the AMS, 1996-200

• AMS Committee to select hour speakers for regional meetings, 1991-1992, 2020-2022

• Chairman AMS Central Section Program Committee, 1992

• Organizer, Special Session on "Martingales and Applications to Analysis," March 1993

• 2nd International Symposium in Probability and Applications, Bloomington, IN.

• National Research Council Evaluation Panel, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 1995-1996

• Co-Organizer, Special Session on "Stochastic Processes", joint, November 1995

• American Math Society and Sociedad Matematica Mexicana, Guanajuato Mexico

• AMS Task Force on Participation of Underrepresented Minorities, 1995

• Organizer Committee for special year (1997-1998) in Stochastic Analysis, 1997-1998

• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA 

• The United States National Committee on Mathematics, 1997-2000

• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Scientific Advisory Council, 1998-2002

• AMS Committee on Committees, 2002-2004

• Selection Committee for Hour Speakers, AMS-Mexican Math Society Meeting, 2004

• Co-chair, Selection Committee for Blackwell-Tapia Prize, 2006-2008.

• Advisory Panel for Collaboration Grants in probability, statistics, harmonic analysis and functional analysis, Simon Foundation

• AMS Book Prize Committee, 2003-2004

• AMS Fellows Committee, 2019-2022

• AWM Fellows Committee, 2018-2021

• AMS Simons Travel Grant for young investigators, 2015-2018

• Probability Surveys, 2004-2005

• Editorial Board of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2006-Present

• IPAM Board of Trustees, 2005-2008

• AMS Leroy P. Steele Prizes Committee, 2005-2008

• Scientific Program Committee, 32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Urbana, Champaign, August 6-10, 2007.

• Scientific Program Committee,  Probability and Analysis Conference, Bedlewo, Poland, 2015.

• Organizing Committee, Latinos in the Mathematical Sciences Conference, IPAM 2015

• Editorial Board, Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, 2007-Present

• Associate Editor for Burkholder Memorial Volume, Annals of Probability, 2013-2017

• Editorial Board, Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2016-present

• Editorial Board, Potential Analysis, 2016-present 

• Editorial Board, Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2015-present

Ph.D. STUDENTS

• Robert Smits;  "Conditioned Brownian Motion, Spectral Gaps and Rates to Equilibrium for Diffusions," May 1996

• Arthur J. Lindeman : "Martingales, the Beurling-Ahlfors Transform, and Lower Bounds for Ground State Eigenfunctions," May 1997

• Pedro Henandez-Mendez: "Sharp inequalities for Dirichlet heat kernels for the Laplacian and the Fractional Laplacian with applications to probability," May 2001.

• Dahae You: "Sharp Inequalities for Schrodinger operators and Laws of the Iterated Logarithm," May 2002

• Prabhu Janakiraman:  "Weak-Type Estimates for Singular Integrals and Maximal Operators," May 2004

• Ambica Rajagopal: "Continuity Properties of symmetric Stable Processes," May 2006

• Erkan Nane: "Iterated Brownian motion: Lifetime Asymptotics and Isoperimetric Inequalities," May 2006

• Bartlomeij Siudeja: "Properties of heat kernels,"  May 2008 

• Sarah N. Bryant:   "Path and spectral properties of certain Levy processes," August 2009.

• Luis Acuna Valverde  (Download papers here)

• Michael Perlmutter  (Download papers here)  

• Daesung Kim  Doob Instructor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Chapmaign. 

• Timothy Rolling, Marquette University.