New Faculty

SCOTT DODELSON

Professor and Head, Physics

Specialty: Cosmology
Education: Ph.D., Physics, Columbia University; postdocs, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and Harvard University
Prior appointment: Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, and Distinguished Scientist Fermilab

YU GU

Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Specialty: Probability and mathematical finance
Education: Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Prior appointment: Szegö Assistant Professor, Stanford University

JASON HOWELL

Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mathematical Sciences

Specialty: Mathematics education, computational mathematics
Education: Ph.D., Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University; postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University Center for Nonlinear Analysis
Prior appointment: Assistant Professor, College of Charleston

JOHANNES MUHLE-KARBE

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Specialty: Probability and mathematical finance
Education: Ph.D., Mathematics, Technical University of Munich; postdoc, University of Vienna
Prior appointment: Associate Professor, University of Michigan

 

TOMASZ TKOCZ

Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Specialty: Probability and mathematical finance
Education: Ph.D., University of Warwick; postdoc, Princeton University

 

STEPHANIE WONG-NOONAN

Assistant Teaching Professor, Biological Sciences

Specialty: Biological sciences education
Education: Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; postdoc, Allegheny Health Network

 

ERIC YTTRI

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Specialty: Neuroscience
Education: Ph.D., Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis; postdoc, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus

YONXIN (LEON) ZHAO

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Specialty: Cell biology
Education: Ph.D., University of Alberta; postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Synthetic Neurobiology Group