Current Position

Associate Professor, Department of  Mathematics, University of Florida.
Affiliated Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Florida.

Education

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Purdue University (1998)
• Advisor: Dr. Fabio Milner
• Thesis: An Age-structured Two-Sex Population Model
• M.S. in Mathematics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria (1988)
• GPA 5.91/6.00 (graduated third in a class of 154)
• Thesis in Numerical Analysis

Area of Research

• Mathematical Biology
• Population Dynamics
• Mathematical Epidemiology
• Mathemtical Demography
• Mathematical Ecology
  
• Nonlinear PDEs
• Numerical Analysis

Honors and Grants

• NSF DGE-0801544 "IGERT: Spatial Ecology and Evolution: Quantitative Training in Biology, Statistics, and Mathematics" (2008-2013), PI: Craig Osenberg,  Co-PIs: Emilio Bruna, Maia Martcheva, Benjamin Bolker.
  
• NSF DMS-0817789 "Avian Flu: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulations" (2008-2011), Co-PIs: Robert D. Holt, Manojit Roy, Department of Zoology, UF.
  
• NSF Grant DMS-0408230 "IGMS: Host immunity and the evolution of infectious diseases" (2005-2006), Co-PI: Louis Guillette, Department of Zoology, UF.
• NSF Grant DMS-0137687  "Effects of host age-structure on the development and evolution of infectious diseases" (2002-2003). Transfered as DMS-0406119 (2003-2005)
• Association for Women in Mathematics Workshop Grant (1996, 2000)
• CIC/WISE Travel Grant for women graduate students (1998)
• Phi Kappa Phi (member since 1997)
• The National Dean's List (1995-1996)
• Association of Women in Mathematics Grant for participation in Julia Robertson Celebration of Women in Mathematics (1996)
• Purdue Research Foundation Grant (Summer 1995, Summer 1996, Summer 1997)
• Golden Medal of Department of Education (Bulgaria 1986)

Professional Experience

• Visiting Member, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, June2009-December 2009.
• Assistant Professor, Department of  Mathematics, University of Florida, August 2003-August 2008.
  
• Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of  Zoology, University of Florida, 2005-2008.
  
• Affiliated Assistant Professor -- in Residence, Department of Zoology, University of Florida, September 2005 - July 2006.
  
• Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University, May-June 2005.
• NSF ADVANCE Fellow, DBSCB, Cornell University, 2002-2003.
• Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University, July 2003.
• Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Italy, April-June 2003.
• Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Italy, May-June 2002.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, January-May 2001.
• Visiting Scientist, Purdue University, January, May, 2000.
• Instructor, Polytechnic Institute, NYU, Brooklyn, NY, 1999-2003.
• Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, September-December 1998.
• Visiting Scientist, University of Trento, Italy, May-June 1998.
• Teaching Assistant, Purdue University, 1992-1997.
• Research Assistant, Purdue University, Summer 1995, Summer 1996, Summer 1997.
• Research Fellow, University of Sofia, 1989-1990, 1992.
• Teaching Assistant, University of Sofia, 1989-1990, 1992.

Invited Conference Talks

• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, MA, January 2012
• Meeting  "Mathematical Innovative Methods and Models of Biosciences", Trento, Italy, December 2011
• 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Vancouver, Canada, July 2011
• NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Modeling Johne's Diseases, NIMBioS, UTK, July 2011
• Third Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of  Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences, Albena, Bulgaria, June 2011
• Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics 3, Bordeaux, France, May 2010
• 2009 AMS Fall Central Section Meeting, Waco, TX, October 2009
• Second International Conference on mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems, UAH, Huntsville, AL, October 2009
• Instanbul Conference on Mathematical Methods and Modeling in Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Sile, Turkey, August 2009
• Meeting:"Mitigating the Spread of A/H1N1: Lessons Learned from Past Outbreaks", Tempe, AZ, June 2009
• 1048th AMS Section Meeting, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, April 2009.
  
• Workshop on Analysis and Numerics of Population Dynamics and Epidemics Models, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, December 2008.
  
• Conference in honour of Horst R. Thieme "Differential Equations and Applications in Ecology and Epidemiology", Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, December 2008.
  
• 2008 AMS Fall Southeastern Meeting, Huntsville, AL,  October 2008.
  
• Conference on  Differential Equations and Application to Mathematical Biology, University of Le Havre, Le Havre, France, June 2008.
  
• Fifth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Orlando, FL, June 2008.
  
• Conference in Honor of the 65th Birthday of Jim Cushing, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, October 2007
• Workshop on Coevolution, DIMACS, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, October 2006
  
• SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, July 2006
  
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, TX, January 2006
• Conference on Mathematical Biology and Dynamical Systems,  University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX,  October 2005
• 2005 AMS Sectional Meeting, Lubbock, TX, April 2005
• Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics  2004, joint DESTOBIO 3 - MPD 7,  Trento, Italy, June  2004
• 2004 Spring Southeastern AMS Section Meeting, Tallahassee, FL, March 2004
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix, AZ , January 2004
• 2003 Joint Central and  Western AMS Section Meeting, Boulder , CO, October 2003
• VI Congresso Nazionalle della SIMAI, Grand Hotel Chia Laguna, Domus de Maria, Italy, May 2002
• AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2001
• International Conference on Deterministic and Scholastic Modeling of Biointeraction, DESTOBIO 2000, West Lafayette, IN, August 2000
• The Eleventh International Colloquium on Differential Equations, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, August 2000
• SIAM Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, July 2000
• Workshop "Emerging and Reemerging Diseases", IMA, University of Minnesota, May 1999
• International Conference on Deterministic and Stochastic Modeling of Biointeraction, Bulgaria, August 1997
• National Research Competition for Undergraduate Students, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1988 (second place)

Seminar and Colloquia Talks

• Seminar, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, HSPH, Harvard, Boston, MA, June 2010
• Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic Institute, NYU, New York, NY, October 2009
• Mostly Biomathematics Seminar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, New York, NY, October 2009
• Mathematical Biology Seminar, Department of Mathematics, ASU, Tempe, AZ, September 2009
• Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, April 2009
  
• MBI Seminar, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, March 2009
  
• Colloquium, Institute for Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology and Department of Mathematics, University of Miami, April 2008
  
• Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrance Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, March 2006
  
• Departmental Seminar, Department of Zoology, University of Florida,  October 2005
• Colloquium, Group T7, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos,  NM, July 2004
• Trieste-Trento Workshop on Numerical Methods, University of Trento, Italy, June 2003
• Colloquium, City College of New York, March 2003
• Colloquium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 2003
• Colloquium, Utah State University, March 2003
• Biomathematics Seminar, Texas Tech University, March 2003
• Colloquium, Fordham University, February 2003
• Colloquium, Lehigh University, February 2003
• Colloquium, University of Florida, January 2003
• Colloquium, University of Louisville, KY, December 2002
• Biomathematics Seminar, University of Trento, Italy, June 2002
• Colloquium, Queens College, CUNY, March 2002
• Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Milwakee, March 2002
• Applied Mathematics Seminar, College of Staten Island, CUNY, February 2002
• Colloquium, Montclair State University, February 2002
• Colloquium, College of William and Mary, February 2002
• Mathematical Biology Seminar, Arizona State University, February 2001
• Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute, Cornell University, July 1998
• Colloquium, Texas Tech University, February 1997

Scientific Forums  Organized

• "Modern Developments in the Mathematics of Infectious Diseases" (with Fabio Milner), CMPD3, Bordeaux, France, May 2010.
• "Mathematical Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulations" (with Z. Li and A. S. Ackleh), 2008 AMS Fall Southeastern Meeting, Huntsville, AL, October 2008.
  
• "Evolution of Pathogens" (with Zhilan Feng),  CMPD 2004, Trento, Italy, June 2004.
• Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, 2003-2004.
• "Control Problems in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology" (with Bedr'Eddine Ainseba), DESTOBIO 2000, West Lafayette, IN, August 2000.

Meeting Attended

• NAKFI Complex Systems, The National Academies Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, CA, November 2008 (poster presentation).
  
• International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology, DIMACS Center - Rutgers University, June-July 2002 (poster presentation)
• Dynamics Days Arizona, Scottsdale, January 1997 (poster presentation)
• SIAM Annual Meeting, Kansas City, July 1996 (poster presentation)
• Julia Robertson Celebration of Women in Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkely, July 1996 (poster presentation)
• Fourth Conference on Differential equations and Applications, Rousse, Bulgaria, August 1989

Editorial Boards

• Mathematical Biosciences, publisher: Elsevier, February 2010 - present.
• Journal of Biological Dynamics, publisher: Taylor & Francis, Summer 2008 - present.
• Journal of Biological Systems, publisher: World Scietific, Fall 2004 - present.

Publications

My publications with links are listed here.

Book

(with M. Iannelli, F. Milner) "Gender-Structured Population Modeling: Mathematical Methods, Numerics and Simulations", SIAM Frontiers in Applied Mathematics  FR31, SIAM, Philadelphia  2005.

Teaching Experience

• Fifteen years experience teaching undergraduate classes
• Taught classes in Precalculus, Calculus, Algebra, Trigonometry, Intermidiate Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis, ODEs
• BioMathematics Seminar I -- a graduate class, Fall 2006.
  
• Students participated in joint projects with students in the Integrative Principles class (a graduate class in Zoology).
  
• BioMathematics Seminar II -- a graduate class, Fall 2007.
• Modeling in Mathematical Biology -- a graduate/undergraduate class. Students are mixed from mathematics and biology.
  
• Course coordinator, Precalculus (1999), Algebra (1997),  Trigonometry (1995, 1996, 1997)
• Duties include handling section changes and preparing midterm exams (including grading keys) for about 500 students
• Curriculum development - Incorporating Matlab into the Calculus Curriculum
• Developing worksheets for introduction to Matlab
• Developing sets of solved problems with and without Matlab
• REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) - participated in REU Summer program at MTBI (Cornell University, Los Alamos)
• Lectures
• Directed student research projects

Students

• Omar Saucedo  -- PhD student, August 2010 -- present.
• Research interest: mathematical epidemiology, avian influenza.
• Juan Torres --  Ph.D. student, August 2008 -- present.
• Reserach interests: mathematical epidemiology, avian influenza.
• Hayriye Gulbudak -- Ph.D. student, August 2009 -- present.
• Research interests: mathematical epidemiology, avian influenza.
• Olivia Prosper -- Ph.D. student, August 2006 -- present. (co-advisor: David L. Smith).
• Research interests: malaria.
  
• Souvik Bhattacharya -- Ph.D. , August 2011.
  
• Research interests: size-structured models.
• Dissertation:   Oscillations in a Size-Structured Prey Predator Model
• Joseph Lucchetti -- M.S. in Mathematics, August 2010.
  
• Research interests: data fitting.
  
• Swati Deb Roy -- Ph.D.,  December 2011. (co-advisor: Benjamin Bolker).
  
• Research interests: Hepatitis C
• Dissertation: Hepatitis C Infection in the Human  Liver: Viral Dynamics, Treatment and Related Side-Effects.
  
• Fernanda Melo -- M.S.,  Applied Mathematics, August 2007.
  
• Thesis: The New Face of AIDS: A Mathematical Modeling Approach to New Trends in Treatment and Prevention
  
• Douglas Thomasey -- M.S.,  Applied Mathematics, May 2007.
  
• Thesis: Serotype Replacement of Vertically Transmitted Diseases Through Perfect Vaccination
  

Computer Experience

• Programming Languages: Fortran, Pascal
• Computer Algebra Systems: Mathematica, Matlab
• Familiarity with Operating Systems: Unix, Windows

References

• Dr. Fabio Milner, Department  of Mathematics, Purdue University

e-mail: milner@math.purdue.edu

• Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Department of  Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University

e-mail: chavez@math.asu.edu

• Dr. Robert D. Holt, Department of Zoology, University of Florida
  

e-mail: rdholt@zoo.ufl.edu

• Dr. Horst R. Thieme, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University

e-mail: thieme@math.la.asu.edu