Math Department Faculty

Rodolfo Aguilar

Rodolfo Aguilar, IMSA Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2021, Université Grenoble Alpes
Research Interests: Shafarevich Conjecture, Topology of Algebraic Varieties and its relations with Low-dimensional Topology
Email: rxa1087@miami.edu
Office: Ungar 419
Telephone: 305.284.2297


Orlando Alvarez

Orlando Alvarez, Professor of Physics with a Secondary Appointment in Mathematics
Ph.D. Physics, 1979, Harvard University
Research Interests: Theoretical Physics (Particle Physics, Quantum Field Theory, String Theory)
Email: alvarez@physics.miami.edu
Office: James L. Knight Physics Building, Room 316
Telephone: 305.284.7127


Bahman Angoshtari

Bahman Angoshtari, Assistant Professor
D.Phil., 2014, University of Oxford
Research Interests: Probability, Mathematical Finance, Stochastic Control
Email: b.angoshtari@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 523
Telephone: 305.284.2724


Drew Armstrong

Drew Armstrong, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 2006, Cornell University
Research Interests: Algebra, Combinatorics, Geometry, Foundations, History of Math
Email: d.armstrong@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 437
Telephone: 305.284.2186


Ken Baker

Ken Baker, Professor
Ph.D., 2004, University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: Low Dimensional Topology
Email: k.baker@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 545
Telephone: 305.284.2178


Enrique Becerra

Enrique Becerra, IMSA Research Assistant Professor
Email: exb1015@miami.edu
Office: Ungar 419
Telephone: 305.284.2297


Bruno Benedetti

Bruno Benedetti, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 2010, Technical University of Berlin
Research Interests: Discrete Geometry
Email: b.benedetti@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 533
Telephone: 305.284.8652


Morgan Brown

Morgan Brown, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 2012, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry
Email: m.brown@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 401
Telephone: 305.284.8653


Ming-Liang Cai

Ming-Liang Cai, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1991, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Differential Geometry
Email: m.cai@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 512
Telephone: 305.284.2328


Robert Stephen Cantrell





Robert Stephen Cantrell, Professor, Chair
Director of the University of Miami Institute for Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology
Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences
Top Level Foreign Expert, Renmin University of China 2015-2017
Ph.D., 1981, University of Utah
Research Interests: Mathematical Ecology, Nonlinear Analysis, Partial Differential Equations
Email: r.cantrell@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 515C
Telephone: 305.284.2348


Da Rong Cheng

Da Rong Cheng, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2017, Stanford University
Research Interest: Differential Geometry
Email: darong.cheng@miami.edu
Office: Ungar 531
Telephone: 305.284.2129


Brian Coomes

Brian Coomes, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1988, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Research Interests: Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems
Email: b.coomes@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 435
Telephone: 305.284.6987


Chris Cosner

Chris Cosner, Professor
Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., 1977, University of California at Berkeley

Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Biology
Email: c.cosner@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 417
Telephone: 305.284.3519


Bruno de Oliveira

Bruno de Oliveira, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., 1997, Columbia University
Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry
Email: b.deoliveira@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 443
Telephone: 305.284.2320


Alexander Dvorsky

Alexander Dvorsky, Associate Professor, Associate Chair
Director of the Master of Science Program in Mathematical Finance
Ph.D., 1996, UC Berkeley
Research Interests: Representation Theory, Lie Groups
Email: a.dvorsky@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 445
Telephone: 305.284.2191


Gregory J. Galloway

Gregory J. Galloway, Professor Emeritus
Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., 1976, University of California at San Diego

Research Interests: Differential Geometry, General Relativity
Email: g.galloway@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 539
Telephone: 305.284.2338


Phillip Griffiths



Phillip Griffiths, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Scholar
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Ph.D., 1962, Princeton University
Research Interests: Algebraic and Differential Geometry, Interfaces between Hodge Theory with Representation Theory and Classical Algebraic Geometry
Email: p.griffiths@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 514
Telephone: 305.284.2327


Ilie Grigorescu

Ilie Grigorescu, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1997, New York University
Research Interests: Probability, PDE
Email: i.grigorescu@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 441
Telephone: 305.284.2146


Xi Huo

Xi Huo, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 2014, Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: Mathematical Biology
Email: x.huo@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 513
Telephone: 305.284.2166


Shulim Kaliman

Shulim Kaliman, Professor
M.S., 1972, Moscow State University
Ph.D., 1979, Krzhyzhanovski Energy Lab, Moscow
Research Interests: Complex Analysis, Algebraic Geometry
Email: s.kaliman@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 543
Telephone: 305.284.2195


Lev Kapitanski



Lev Kapitanski, Professor
Ph.D. (1981), Dr. Sci. (1991), Steklov Institute of Mathematics, St. Petersburg, Russia
Research Interests: Nonlinear Evolution Equations, Variational Problems with Topological Constraints, Control of Mechanical
Systems, Mathematics of Vision, Mathematical Genetics
Email: l.kapitanski@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 413
Telephone: 305.284.2280


Ludmil Katzarkov



Ludmil Katzarkov, Professor
Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences
2017 Simons Investigator
Ph.D., 1995, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry, Symplectic Geometry, Mathematics of String Theory
Email: l.katzarkov@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 405
Telephone: 305.284.2279


Huseyin Kocak

Hüseyin Koçak, Professor
Ph.D., 1980, University of California at Santa Cruz
Research Interests: Dynamical Systems, Scientific Computing
Email: h.kocak@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 310G
Telephone: 305.284.3138


Maxim Kontsevich


















Maxim Kontsevich, Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., 1992, University of Bonn
Professor, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (I.H.E.S.)
EMS Prize (1992)
Otto Hahn Medal (1992)
Paris Prize, First European Mathematical Congress (1992)
Henri Poincaré Prize, Fondation Daniel Iagolnitzer (1997)
Fields Medal (1998)
Crafoord Prize (2008)
Shaw Prize (2012)
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012)
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014)
Doctor Honoris Causa, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark (2014)
Doctor Honoris Causa, Universität Wien (2015)
Academia Europaea, member (2000)
Académie des Sciences de Paris, member (2002)
National Academy of Sciences, foreign member (2015)
London Mathematical Society, honorary member (2016)

Research Interests: Mathematical Physics, Noncommutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry
Email: m.kontsevich@math.miami.edu


Rene Mboro

René Mboro, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2017, École Polytechnique - Paris-Saclay University
Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry
Email: rmboro@miami.edu
Office: Ungar 407
Telephone: 305.284.2160


Pengzi Miao

Pengzi Miao, Professor
Ph.D., 2003, Stanford University
Research Interests: Differential Geometry, General Relativity
Email: p.miao@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 447
Telephone: 305.284.2859


Victor C. Pestien

Victor C. Pestien, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1980, University of California at Berkeley
Research Interests: Probability, Optimization
Email: v.pestien@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 535
Telephone: 305.284.2168


Subramanian Ramakrishnan

Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., 1980, Indian Statistical Institute
Research Interests: Probability, Statistics
Email: s.ramakrishnan@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 527
Telephone: 305.284.2156


Shigui Ruan

Shigui Ruan, Professor
Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., 1992, University of Alberta
Research Interests: Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Biology
Email: s.ruan@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 415
Telephone: 305.284.2312


Nikolai Saveliev

Nikolai Saveliev, Professor
Ph.D., 1995, University of Oklahoma
Research Interests: Low Dimensional Topology, Gauge Theory
Email: n.saveliev@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 409
Telephone: 305.284.2418


Christopher Scaduto

Christopher Scaduto, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2015, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Low Dimensional Topology, Gauge Theory, Floer Homology
Email: c.scaduto@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 525
Telephone: 305.284.1733


Richard P. Stanley

Richard P. Stanley, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Scholar
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Ph.D., 1971, Harvard University

Research Interests: Algebraic Combinatorics
Email: r.stanley@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 547
Telephone: 305.284.3742


Mina Teicher











Mina Teicher, Visiting Professor
Ph.D. 1981, Tel Aviv University
Director, Emmy Noether Research Institute for Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University 1999-
Chief Scientist, Israel Ministry of Science and Technology, 2005-2007
Chair, Board of Governors, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, 2012-2013
Former Chief Scientist, Israel Government
Former Chair, USA-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry, Computer Vision, Cryptography and Cyber Security, Computational Neuroscience, Complex Systems, Mathematical Education, Technology Transfer from Academia to Industry, Advancement of Women in Science
Email: minateicher@miami.edu
Office: Ungar 403
Telephone: 305.284.8648


Michelle Wachs Galloway

Michelle Wachs Galloway, Professor
Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., 1977, University of California at San Diego

Research Interests: Algebraic Combinatorics
Email: m.galloway@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 537
Telephone: 305.284.2170


Kaiqi Yang

Kaiqi Yang, IMSA Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2023, New York University
Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry
Email: kxy1105@miami.edu
Office: Ungar 503
Telephone: 305.284.9161


Alan Zame

Alan Zame, Professor
Ph.D., 1965, University of California at Berkeley
Research Interests: Analysis, Probability
Email: a.zame@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 541
Telephone: 305.284.2176


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