Mathematics and Statistics

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• Dr. Dao has been granted a Summer Undergraduate and Graduate Research Assistantships Grant (SUGRA) in the amount of $4,000.00 for the project "Robust classical and Bayesian estimation of the two-parameter exponential distribution." (6/1/2025 – 8/31/2025)
• Dr. Dao received an award from State of Kansas in the amount of $4,500 for the project "Assessing Prior Choices in Bayesian Parametric Failure Data Analysis." (7/1/2025 – 6/15/2026).
• Dr. Dao received an award in the amount of $6,500 for their FARE Mutal Mentoring Grant proposal "Enhancing Community Resilience Through AI-Driven Power Line Inspection," in partnership with faculty from Electrical & Computer Engineering (Arun-Kaarthick Manoharan), and the School of Computing (Lokesh Das and Fujian Yan). 
• Dr. Kwon and Dr. Dao received an award in the amount of $4,100 for their FARE Mutal Mentoring Grant proposal "From Data to Discovery: A Mutual Mentoring Model Advancing Statistical Methods for Nursing Research and Education," in partnership with faculty from the School of Nursing (Maggie Ward and Terri Shill).
• Dr. Yeil Kwon has been granted an Award for Research/Creative projects in Summer (ARCS) in the amount of $3,000 for May 1, 2025 - August 31, 2025, for his project "An Empirical Bayes Estimator for the Probability of Infrequent Events under the Restricted Parameter Space."
• John Hammond won the 2025 President's Distinguished Service Award.Congratulations!
• Mark Meyer has been awarded an NSF Mathematical Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MSPRF) to study convex geometry with Matthieu Fradelizi at Gustav Eiffel University. Congratulations!
• Dr. Xiaolong Li has received the 2024 - 2025 Excellence in Research Award. Congratulations!
• Dr. Yueh-Ju Lin has received a 2-year LEAPS grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Mathematical Sciences: Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (#2418740) totaling $239,598 for her project "Higher order partial differential equations in conformal and Riemannian geometry". This grant will support summer research, PhD and master's students, and travel (2024-2026).
• Dr. Xiaolong Li has received a 3-year Continuing Grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Mathematical Sciences (#2405257) totaling $219,854 for his project "Sectional Curvature, Isotropic Curvature, and Curvature Operators". This grant will support summer research, PhD students, and travel (2024-2027).
• Sarah Ghazawneh awarded the 2024 Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award.
• Dr. Yuan Liu has been granted a University Research/Creative Projects Award (URCA) in the amount of $4500 for July 1, 2024 - June 15 2025, for her project, "Inferring biological dynamics by machine learning algorithms".
• Dr. Mai Dao and Dr. Holger Meyer received funding from PetroPower for the project titled "IMU Data Compression and Anomaly Detection". The award carries $22,565 (11/01/2023-06/30/2024) and enables them to provide advice and support to two PhD students working on the project.
• Dr. Mai Dao (jointly with Dr. Fujian Yan of School of Computing) has received a faculty MURPA award for their project, "Bayesian neural networks for human-robot collaboration". The award is for $7500 (May 1 - August 31, 2024).
• Dr. Robert Fraser (jointly with Dr. Mythili Menon of English and Linguistics) has received a faculty MURPA award for their project, "A resource for English language learners in first-year mathematics courses". The award is for $7500 (May 1 - August 31, 2024).
• Dr. Catherine Searle has been awarded a Research Professorship for Fall 2024 at SLMath. She will be participating in the semester-long program New Frontiers in Curvature, which she is co-organizing with Ailana Fraser, Lan-Hsuan Huang, Richard Schoen, Lu Wang, and Guofang Wei. The award is for a total of $23,560.

• Dr. Xiaolong Li has received a 2-year grant from the National Science Foundation LEAPS - Division of Mathematical Sciences (#2316659) totaling $250,000 for his project "Geometrization with Positive Curvature". This grant will support summer research, PhD students, and travel (2023-2025).
  

• Dr. Yuan Liu has received a research fellowship from ICERM. This research fellowship, totaling $24,000, will enable her to participate in a semester-long research program at Brown University in Spring 2024 titled "Numerical Partial Differential Equations: Analysis, Algorithms and Data Challenges."

• The 2023 Wichita State Collegiate Mathematics Competition team placed third in this year's competition at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. The team consisted of Kubeshavarsha Kalithasan, Kevin Nguyen, and Evan Wing.

• Dr. Mai Dao has received the Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) award for her Partnership Development Grant (PDG) entitled “Bayesian Calibration for Model-Based Uncertainty Quantification and Reduction in Additive Manufacturing” for May 1. 2023 to April 30, 2024. The award fund ($22,029, with $2,757 from the math department matching fund) will allow her to work with two undergraduates and travel to the NSAS Glenn Research Center with students.

• John Hammond has received the 2023 Academy of Effective Teaching Award.

• Dr. Mai Dao has been granted an Award for Research/Creative projects in Summer (ARCS) in the amount of $3,986.00 for May 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023, for her project "Bayesian Quantile Regresion with Unit-Bounded Responses." 

• Dr. Xiaolong Li has received a 5-year standard grant from the Simons Foundation (#962228) from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2027, totaling $42,000, for his project "Analysis and Geometry on Manifolds". The grant will support Dr. Li's research expenses and travel.

• Dr. Catherine Searle has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Mathematical Sciences (#2204324) totaling $261,767 for her project "Curvature and Symmetry". This grant will support summer research, PhD and masters students, and travel (2022-2025). 
• John Hammond won the 2022 University Faculty Awards on Excellence in Accessibility.
• Dr. Yuan Liu has received a 2-year standard grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Mathematical Sciences: Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (#2213436) totaling $250,000 for her project "Robust and High Order Numerical Simulation for Phase Field Modeling". This grant will support summer research, PhD and masters students, and travel (2022-2024).
• The Mathematics & Statistics Department has launched a new interdisciplinary Data Science master's program: MS in Mathematical Data Science.