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Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College.
Prof. Mrad obtained her B.S. from the Lebanese University, and her M.S. at the American University of Beirut. After obtaining her Ph.D. from Purdue University, Prof. Mrad did a post-doc at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on applying analytical and computational techniques to solve problems in materials science, specifically in the area of liquid crystals. She is particularly interested in liquid crystal behavior relevant to creating higher-efficiency optical displays, as well as understanding related biological phenomena. In addition to problems from materials science, she works on problems related to public health applications, such as modeling and simulation of mosquito flight for the purpose of controlling disease spread.
Fun fact: her most recent hobbies include working on irregular jigsaw puzzles, learning new recipes, and reading about how the brain works.
Post-doctoral researcher, National Taiwan Normal University.
Dr. McCurdy obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He did a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the National Taiwan Normal University.
His research interests lie in Analysis, where he works at the intersection of Calculus of Variations, Geometric Measure Theory, and Partial Differential Equations.
Fun fact: Dr. McCurdy enjoys contra dancing, unicycling, and pickling things.
Cybersecurity Research Mathematician/Deer Ninja, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Bobby is a researcher in and was previously the leader of ORNL's Cybersecurity Research Group. After completing a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Purdue University, Bobby joined ORNL as a postdoc and later full scientist. Bobby's current research is focused on developing privacy-preserving methods for optimization and using data science to assist the US Center for Medicare to identify improper payments. Over the last two years, Bobby’s research involved designing and implementing large-scale experiments to determine the efficacy of cyber defensive tools, and in developing security-related technologies for in-vehicle controller area networks. Previous work involved applications of graph theory, function theory, and anomaly detection to network data, power profile data, and natural language processing to text involving cyber information."
Fun fact: when not working, Bobby lives for anything outdoors, especially hiking, backpacking, hunting, fishing, kayaking, and mushroom foraging.
Two truths and a lie: Bobby was a featured dancer in a musical; Bobby won a weightlifting competition in college; Bobby got second place in a fishing tournament.
Instructor, Lamar University
Prof. Brubaker obtained her B.A. from St. John's College, an all-required, original source bases curriculum that follows the development of philosophy, literature, history, mathematics, science, and music in Western thought from the ancient Greeks through the modern era. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Purdue University, and then was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Emory and Henry College.
Fun fact: Dr. Brubaker considers Santa Fe, NM, to be “home”. She likes to read, bake, and take walks with her sweet doggie “Buddy”. She might describe her current job as convincing students who’ve never liked Algebra that Math can make sense (and when it does make sense, it’s neat).
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University.
Prof. Kirby obtained a B.S. in Mathematics, along with a B.A in Spanish, at Stanford University. He then obtained a M.A. in Mathematics, followed by a Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Afterward, he was a post-doc at Arizona State University.
His research focuses on the interactions of geometry, topology, algebra, and combinatorics.
Fun facts: Prof. Kirby's favorite activity is running on the beach with his dog. He also loves being outdoors playing soccer or volleyball. He enjoys cooking, and in graduate school would host other grad students for alliterative math themed dinners like mole and manifolds or tamales and topology.
Professor of Mathematics, DePaul University.
Prof. Tenner obtained her A.B. in Mathematics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, along with an A.M. in Mathematics, and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Tenner has also been a research visitor at multiple institutions, including the University of Washington, the Institut Mittag-Leffler in Sweden, and Reykjavík University.
Prof. Tenner's primary research is in enumerative and algebraic combinatorics.
Fun fact: when not doing math, Prof. Tenner is usually trying to make something -- whether it's music, bread, a sweater, or a pillow fort.
Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross.
Prof. McGee was born, raised, and public-school-educated in Saginaw, Michigan and then attended Florida A&M University - a historically Black land grant institution - as an undergraduate. Subsequently, Prof. McGee completed master’s and doctoral degrees in Mathematics at Purdue University. Prior to arriving at Holy Cross, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University.
He studies mathematical immunobiology.
Fun fact: Prof. McGee also enjoys USA Today crosswords, boujee coffee, yoga, and tabletop games. In a past life, he also practiced Tae Kwon Do (3rd Kup).
Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University.
Prof. Levinson obtained his B.A. in Mathematics at Williams College. He spent the Fall of 2009 in Hungary at the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program, and also participated in the SMALL Undergraduate Research Project at Williams College. Prof. Levinson then obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, after which he spent 4 months as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at LaCIM (UQAM, Montreal). He was then an Acting Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. During that time, he also spent one year as an AI Resident at Google Research in New York.
Prof. Levinson's research is in algebraic geometry and combinatorics.
Fun fact: Prof. Levinson hiked a volcano (Ol Doinyo Lengai) in Tanzania in 2016!
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