Currently, since August 2022 I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio since August 2020.

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, under the supervision of Professors Ohannes Karakashian and Steven Wise. My PhD work was on Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Solutions of Cahn-Hilliard type Models. From 2011-2013 I held joint positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) and as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University. From 2013-2014 I was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics
at Duke University. From 2014-2015 I was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia. From August 2015-2020 I had been a Tenure-Track Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at West Chester University of Pennsylvania where I was offered tenure, and declined it to come to a more research oriented university, with tradition in applied mathematics and engineering, like The University of Akron.

At SAMSI I have worked with Professor Mansoor Haider, North Carolina State University, in the development and application of Hybrid Discrete Systems to problems related to tissue engineering and at Duke University with Professor Richard Durrett on stochastic hybrid discrete systems applied to tumor growth and evolutionary game theory. Also at Duke University I have formed an ongoing collaboration with Professor Stephanos Venakides (Mathematics) initially as a part of a multidisciplinary group headed by Professor Dan Kiehart (Biology) on a project studying tissue morphogenesis of the drosophila embryo as a potential model of wound healing.

As a Research Assistant Professor at Temple University I worked with Professors Isaac Klapper and Yury Grabovsky on an NIH funded project involving biofilm modeling. This was a part of a wider multidisciplinary group based at the Center of Biofilm Engineering (CBE) located at Montana State University, headed by Professor Phil Stewart (Former Center Director).

At West Chester University I served as the coordinator for the applied and computational mathematics undergraduate program, proposer and co-organizer of the applied mathematics and computational science seminar, proposer and coordinator of the computational science undergraduate minor. I was actively involved in the master’s program in applied and computational mathematics and served in departmental and university committees dealing with university wide computing needs like the acquisition of cloud high performance computing (HPC). On June 29th 2017 I was awarded an NSF Grant jointly from NSF program in computational mathematics and mathematical biology.

For information on my research please visit My Research Page

For information on my teaching please visit My Teaching Page