Teaching & Mentoring

Mentoring

Some of my most satisfying academic experiences have been mentoring undergraduate and postdoctoral research and teaching. The main thrust of each project is described below.

• Xiang Xu (postdoc), Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Fall 2025-present

Xiang received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Kansas in Spring 2025, and his research is in the areas of applied PDEs and fluid-related models. 

• Anubhab Ganguly (undergraduate), mentored research experience (Math 3440 & Math 3980) and supported by my Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of Oklahoma, Summer 2025-present

Anubhab's research is on the application of a data-driven method in the modeling of epidemic disease incorporating human behavior.

• Laila Ruslan (undergraduate), Summer Research Assistant, University of Oklahoma, Summer 2025

Laila's research is on the application of a network analysis in the modeling of epidemic disease incorporating human behavior.

• Ava Cimini (undergraduate), partially funded by the Honors Research Assistant Program, University of Oklahoma, Spring 2025

Ava has been working on the optimal control problem for the SIR model.

• Chloe Ngo (undergraduate; co-mentored with Christian Parkinson), partially funded by the Honors Research Assistant Program and my Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of Oklahoma, Fall 2024-Fall 2025

Chloe's research is on the optimal control of epidemic disease by using the Pontryagin maximum principle and designing numerical schemes.

Paper: Chloe Ngo, Christian Parkinson, and Weinan Wang, Optimal control in SIR models with noncompliance as a social contagion, arXiv:2509.09075, submitted, 2025. 

• Math Alliance mentor for doctoral and pre-doctoral students, Fall 2023-present

• While at UArizona, I worked as a teaching mentor for three undergraduate teaching assistants through the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) program. The UTA Program for Math and Statistics & Data Science Majors provides undergraduate majors with the opportunity to learn about teaching mathematics or statistics by working with an instructor of an undergraduate course and meeting regularly as a group with a mentor.

  • Nathan Gomez (undergraduate), Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program, University of Arizona, Spring 2022

  • Lenox Baloglou (undergraduate), Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program, University of Arizona, Spring 2022

  • Jack Hall (undergraduate), Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program, University of Arizona, Fall 2021

Teaching at the University of Oklahoma

• Math 3423, Physical Mathematics II, Fall 2025

• Math 3980, Honors Research (Honors), Fall 2025

• Math 3440, Mentored Research Experience, Summer 2025

• Math 2924, Differential and Integral Calculus II, Spring 2025

• Math 3980, Honors Research (Honors), Spring 2025

• Math 4433, Introduction to Analysis I, Fall 2024

• Math 2934, Differential and Integral Calculus III (Honors), Fall 2024

• Math 4073, Numerical Analysis I, Spring 2024

• Math 2934, Differential and Integral Calculus III, Spring 2024

• Math 2443, Calculus and Analytic Geometry IV, Fall 2023

• Math 2443, Calculus and Analytic Geometry IV, Fall 2023 

Teaching at the University of Arizona

• Math 129, Calculus II, Spring 2023

• Math 129, Calculus II, Fall 2022

• Math 254, Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations, Spring 2022

• Math 129, Calculus II, Spring 2022

• Math 322, Mathematical Analysis for Engineers, Fall 2021

• Math 122b, First Semester Calculus, Fall 2020