
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 425
Telephone: 305.284.2199

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, Assistant Professor
D.Phil., 2014, University of Oxford
Research Interests: Probability, Mathematical Finance, Stochastic Control
Email: b.angoshtari@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 547
Telephone: 305.284.3742

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, 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

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, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 2012, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry
Email: m.brown@math.miami.edu
Office: Ungar 514
Telephone: 305.284.2327

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Professor Emeritus
Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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, 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 503
Telephone: 305.284.9161

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, 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, 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, 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, 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

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, Distinguished Professor
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)
Ph.D., 1992, University of Bonn
Research Interests: Mathematical Physics, Noncommutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry
Email: m.kontsevich@math.miami.edu

René Mboro, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2017, École Polytechnique - Paris-Saclay University
Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry
Email: rmboro@miami.edu
Office: Ungar 523
Telephone: 305.284.2724

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 503
Telephone: 305.284.9161

Mina Teicher, Visiting Professor
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
Ph.D. 1981, Tel Aviv University
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, Professor
Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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

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