Professional Biography and Personal Interests
Professional Biography:
- I received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1992 from Texas A&M
University under the direction of Professors William Rundell
and Michael Pilant.
- I spent two years (1992-94) as a research
associate in the Department
of Chemistry at Princeton
University, as a member of the research group of Professor Herschel Rabitz.
- I was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky for the 1994-95 year.
- I joined the faculty of the University of Richmond as an assistant
professor of mathematics in
August 1995.
- In 2001, I was granted tenure and promoted to
associate professor of mathematics.
- My research
interests are in applied mathematics; specifically, inverse problems
for differential equations, nondestructive testing and evaluation, and
biological and medical applications of mathematics.
Personal Interests:
- I try to spend as much time as I can with my
wife and daughter.
- I am an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- I like to go hiking, especially during Autumn.
- I am a huge baseball fan, although I haven't
played in ages. But alas, I am a die-hard Pittsburgh
Pirates fan, so I don't do much cheering these days.
