Faculty

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN123
Email: ali.alsharadqah@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-2703

Research Interests:

• Statistics: Errors-In-Variables (EIV) Models, Statistical Inference, Geometric Estimation, and Computational Statistics.
• The applications of Projective Geometry onto computer vision and 3D reconstruction: Fundamental Matrix and Homography computations and Rotation Matrix estimation.

Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN130
Email: alexander.alekseenko@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-2645
Website

Research Interests:

• Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations
• Numerical General Relativity
• Inverse Problems
• Optimization

Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN125
Email: jorge.balbas@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-4772

Research Interests:
My research interest is in Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis. In particular, I am interested in the design and implementation of efficient numerical algorithms for solving hyperbolic conservation laws and related time dependent problems. Examples and applications include shallow water flows - channel and coastal flows, gas dynamics, and magnetohydrodynamics.

Professor of Biology
Office: MG4217
Email: david.bermudes@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-6062

Research Interests:
Symbiosis and pathogenesis are closely related evolutionary consequences of the interaction of two or more organisms. My laboratory engineers pathogenic bacteria to become non-pathogenic and specifically home to and kill cancer cells.

Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management
Office: JD3511
Email: robert.conner@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-4730

Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Office: LO1130
Email: ana.cadavid@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-2771

Research Interests: 
Research in solar physics that centers on: study of the scaling symmetry of the spatial and temporal structures of solar magnetic and velocity fields; constraining from observations the properties of dynamo models; energy transport in the solar atmosphere and the connection between kinetic and magnetic processes in the solar surface and the heating of the solar upper atmosphere.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN120 
Email: kouakou-francois.domagni@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-7816

Research Interests:
My research interest spans the field of design and analysis of experiments as well as the Bayesian inference on the volatility of the jump-diffusion stochastic process. I work on optimal design theory, saturated and supersaturated designs.

Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN123
Email: dorsogna@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-2703
Website

Research Interests:
My research interests include particle swarming, transport phenomena in biology, viral entry and mathematical modeling of crime and sociological behavior. I am also an environmental activist.

Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN121
Email: rabia.djellouli@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-5867
Website

Research Interests:
Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation Phenomena (Scattering & Guidance), Computational Mechanics, System Identification and Finite Element Model Updating, Scientific Computing, Numerical Analysis, Biomathematics and Biomedical Engineering.

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Office: EH 2002
Email: simon.garrett@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-3366

Research Interests:
My research interests are centered around surface science. In particular, I am interested in photochemistry, transition metal alloys and oxides. Currently, I am pursuing three research directions (i) understanding the corrosion and joining of bulk metallic glasses (ii) understanding the reactivity of organic molecules in ice films with a view to comet chemistry and (iii) making oxide nanoparticles for use as nanophotocatalysts and nanomagnets.

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Office: SN127
Email: david.klein@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-7792
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Research Interests:
Mathematical Physics, General Relativity and Cosmology, Statistical Mechanics, Climate Science.

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Office: LO1124B
Email: tluchko@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-6442
Website

Research Interests:
My group develops new computational methods, based on molecular solvation theory, to help understand interactions between proteins, DNA and thousands of small molecules at the atomic scale. This work uses molecular modeling, integral equation theory, and statistical mechanics to help solve problems in biophysics, computational chemistry, and drug design.

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN122
Email: majid.mojirsheibani@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-7814
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Research Interests:
Nonparametric estimation and inference; Probabilistic classification and pattern recognition; Missing data; Bootstrap and other resampling methods.

Professor of Biology
Office: EH2205
Email: sean.murray@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-2950

Research Interests:
My laboratory focuses on the role of lipids (fats) in bacterial cell division and differentiation using the model organism Caulobacter crescentus.

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN131
Email: vladislav.panferov@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-2326
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Research Interests:
Applied mathematics, partial differential equations, kinetic theory and statistical physics, mathematical biology.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN427
Email: ali.pakzad@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-7790

Research Interests:
Numerical analysis, Navier-Stokes Equations, Turbulence, Data-driven modeling.

Professor of Geological Sciences
Office: LO1203
Email: dsw@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-2046
Website

Research Interests:
I use interdisciplinary techniques in surface wave tomography, shear wave splitting, and physical fluid dynamics, to study geophysical problems including the the formation and evolution of continental lithosphere, coupling of asthenospheric flow with oceanic and continental lithosphere, and the dynamics of planetary systems such as the interaction of whole mantle convection and planetary core dynamics with upper mantle and surface observables.

Professor of Mathematics
Office: SN124
Email: emmanuel.yomba@csun.edu
Phone: (818) 677-2711

Research Interests:
Mathematical Physics. Study of Integrability conditions for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (NLPDEs), Qualitative Approaches and Construction of Analytical Approaches for Solving NLPDEs and statistical physics, mathematical biology.