Department of Mathematics - NC State University

$H. Thomas Banks$	H. Thomas Banks Distinguished University Professor and Drexel Professor of Mathematics 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. 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, 12 journals in Applied Math and Biomath.
$Robert Buche$	Robert Buche Assistant Professor	PhD, Brown University, 2000 Stochastic processes, stochastic control, large deviations; applications to communication and operations research.
$Stephen Campbell$	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, semigroup theory, dynamical systems in Banach spaces. 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, radiative transfer, optimal control, integral equations, partial differential equations. Drexel Professor of Mathematics, 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, nanomechanics.
$Tao Pang$	Tao Pang Assistant Professor	PhD, Brown University, 2002 Stochastic control, probability, mathematical finance.
$Kartik Sivaramakrishnan$	Kartik Sivaramakrishnan Assistant Professor	PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002 Convex optimization; linear, second- order, and semidefinite programming; interior-point methods; decomposition and nonsmooth approaches for large-scale optimization.
$Ralph Smith$	Ralph Smith Professor Associate Director of CRSC SAMSI Associate Director	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 identification and control of infinite-dimensional systems.
$Stephanie Whitt$	Stephanie Whitt Lecturer	PhD, , 2007
$Dmitry Zenkov$	Dmitry Zenkov Associate Professor	PhD, Ohio State University, 1998 Geometric mechanics, variational integrators, nonholonomic systems, geometric control theory, stability and control of mechanical systems.