Graduate Students: Applied Mathematics for the Life & Social Sciences Ph.D. Program
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Mayteé Cruz-Aponte
Research Interests: Neuroendocrinology, Epidemiological Models of Influenza Virus
Committee: Marco Arieli Herrera-Valdez (Chair), Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: Universidad de Puerto Rico – Humacao (B.S.,
Computational Mathematics); University of Iowa (M.S., Pure Math)
Hometown: Humacao, Puerto Rico
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Arlene M. Evangelista
Research Interest: Mathematics Education
Committee: Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Co-Chair), Michael Oehrtman (Co-Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
Hometown: Arizona
Marcel Hurtado
Committee: Marco Janssen
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
Hometown: Tempe, Arizona
Irina Kareva
Research Interests: Ecological and Evolutionary Modeling, Time-Scale Reduction, Modeling Heterogeneity through Parameter Distribution,
Niche Construction vs. Consumer-Producer Type Interactions with Renewable Resource, Biocomplexity, Cancer-Immune System
Interactions, Medical Modeling
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland – College Park
Raquel López
Research Interests: Schrödinger Quantum Relations: Hamiltonian Mechanics, Analytical solutions via
Methods of Special Functions, Applications to Bose-Einstein Condensates and Soliton Waves;
Dynamical Systems Applications: Mathematical Modeling of Metabolism and Body Weight Regulation
Committee: Sergei K. Suslov (Chair), Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: University of the Pacific
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Dori Luli
Research Interest: Computational Neuroscience
Committee: Sharon Crook, Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Undergraduate Institution: North Central College
Hometown: Shkoder, Albania
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Romarie Morales
AAGS Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences Representative
Benjamin "Batman" Morin
Research Interests: Spatial Ecology, Cultural Consensus, Disease Spread
Committee: Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Chair)
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: University of Maine; Oregon State University
Hometown: Lewiston, Maine
Anarina Murillo
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
David Murillo
Research Interests: Urban Growth, Epidemiology
Committee: Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Co-Chair), J. Marty Anderies (Co-Chair), Christopher Boone
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Dustin Padilla
Committee: Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Undergraduate Institution: Western New Mexico University
Hometown: Hanover, New Mexico
Kehinde Salau
Research Interests: Analysis of Predator-Prey Systems in Social and Ecological Frameworks through
Mathematical Theory and Simulation, Dynamical Systems
Committee: Marco Janssen (Chair), Eli Fenichel, J. Marty Anderies, Joshua Abbott
Undergraduate Institution: St. Mary's College of Maryland
Hometown: Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Adrian Smith
Research Interests: Applied Dynamics and Mathematical Neurosciences (Dynamics, Neural
Mechanisms and Biophysical Models of Phase Precession in the Hippocampus)
Committee: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Marco Herrera-Valdez
Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington
Hometown: Farmington, New Mexico
Ilyssa Summer
Research Interests: Human Evolution and Mathematics
Committee: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Marco Herrera-Valdez
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
Hometown: New York, New York
Jose M. Vega
Research Interests: Differential Equations, Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Epidemiology, Math
Education
Undergraduate Institution: Universidad de Puerto Rico – Cayey
Hometown: Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico
