Department of Mathematics - NC State University

$H. Thomas Banks$	H. Thomas Banks Professor Director of CRSC Co-Director of CQSB	PhD, Purdue University, 1967 Control and parameter estimation for delay and partial differential equations; computational methods; statistical and mathematical methods for inverse problems; modeling in biological and physical problems. Distinguished University Professor; Drexel Professor; SIAM W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize; IEEE Fellow; Institute of Physics Fellow; NCSU Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor; NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award; NCSU Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award; IEEE-CSS Control Systems Technology Award; Purdue University Distinguished Alumni Award; Elected Chair, SIAM Board of Trustees (4 terms); ASME Best Paper Award; Amer. Chem. Soc Rubber Division Best Paper Award; Professeur Honoraire, Universite Compeigne, France; AFOSR Research Highlight; Turkish's Governor's Medal of Honor Award; President, NCSU Sigma Xi Society; Editorial Board, 14 journals in Applied Math and Biomath.
$Stephen Campbell$	Stephen Campbell Professor Director of Graduate Program	PhD, Northwestern University, 1972 Implicit systems of ordinary differential equations, including numerical algorithms and control; applications to constrained mechanical systems, optimal control, and failure detection. Fellow of the IEEE
$Kazufumi Ito$	Kazufumi Ito Professor	PhD, Washington University, 1981 Optimal control and inverse problems for partial differential equations, control of Navier-Stokes equations, numerical partial differential equations, nonlinear semigroup theory, dynamical systems in Banach spaces, stochastic differential equations and applications. SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2006)
$C.T. (Tim) Kelley$	C.T. (Tim) Kelley Professor	PhD, Purdue University, 1976 Nonlinear equations, multilevel methods, large-scale and multi-model optimization, flow in porous media, nano-scale electronic, radiative transfer, optimal control, integral equations, partial differential equations. Drexel Professor of Mathematics, SIAM Fellow Editor-in-chief, SIAM J. Optimization (2000-2004), SIAM Vice President for Publications
$Negash Medhin$	Negash Medhin Professor Director of Operations Research Graduate Program	PhD, Purdue University, 1980 Control theory, differential games, optimization, sociodynamics, molecular dynamics simulation. Assoc. Editor: Jour. Optim. Theory and Applications Editor: Dynamic Systems and Applications, Comm. in Applied Analysis
$Tao Pang$	Tao Pang Associate Professor	PhD, Brown University, 2002 Stochastic control, probability, mathematical finance.
$Ralph Smith$	Ralph Smith Professor Associate Director of CRSC	PhD, Montana State University, 1990 Mathematical modeling of smart materials, numerical analysis and numerical methods for physical systems, parameter estimation, control theory.
$Hien Tran$	Hien Tran Professor Associate Head	PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986 Scientific computation, numerical methods for the identification and control of dynamical systems.
$Semyon Tsynkov$	Semyon Tsynkov Associate Professor	PhD, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1991 Numerical analysis of partial differential equations, scientific computation, wave propagation and control; applications to acoustics, electrodynamics, fluids, nonlinear optics. DSc, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004
$Dmitry Zenkov$	Dmitry Zenkov Associate Professor	PhD, Ohio State University, 1998 Geometric mechanics, variational integrators, nonholonomic systems, geometric control theory, stability and control of mechanical systems.