Curriculum Vitae
Scholarship Interests
• Stimulating Teaching and Learning Excellence
• Stability of Waves and Dynamical Systems
• Modeling Infectious Disease
• Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Transforming Education, Stimulating Teaching and Learning Excellence
Grants
External Grants
• Co-PI, Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM) Mini Grant, 2021–2022
“Modeling plant-virus-vector coinfections and the effect of disease control strategies on plant yield”
• PI, NSF Grant DMS-0708554, 2007–2011
“Stability and Spectral Theory”
• AWM Travel Grant, 2006
• PI, NSF Grant DMS-0204072, 2002–2005
“Stability of Waves With Continuous Spectrum”
Internal Grants
• General Research Fund, University of Kansas, 2026
“FromWeak to Strong Lattices: Full ϵ-Theory for the Nonlinear SchrÅNodinger Equation with Periodic
Potentials”
• New Faculty General Research Fund, University of Kansas, 2006
“Stability Analysis of Periodic Traveling Waves”
Awards and Honors
• Career Partners Summer Institute, KU, May 19-21 2026
• Course Transformation Grant, C21 and TRESTLE, KU, Spring 2018
• TRESTLE Annual Meeting Travel Fund, TRESTLE, KU, 2017
• Graduate Research Consultant Award, Center for Undergraduate Research, KU, 2017
• Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematical Sciences (PIC Math) with the Mathematical
Association of America Math Travel Fund for Students, MAA, 2015
• PIC Math Instructional Fund, MAA, 2015
• Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematical Sciences (PIC Math) Travel Fund, MAA, 2014
• Faculty Seminar Instructional Fund, KU, 2009
• CLAS Faculty Travel Award, KU, 2007
• CLAS Faculty Travel Award, KU, 2006
• Best Practices Institute Instructional Fund, KU, 2006
• William B. Wilcox Mathematics Award, Indiana University, 2001
Conferences and Workshops
• Career Partners Summer Institute, May 19-21, 2026
• CTE’s workshop on Creating Engaging Learning Environments in an Age of Digital Distraction,
March 5, 2026
• Teaching Scholarship Collaborative, CTE, Fall 2025-Spring 2026
• Participant, KUMUNU-ISU PDE, Dynamical Systems and Applications, April 6–7, 2024
• Participant, Connecting Your Research to DoD Funding Priorities, April 19, 2023
• Participant, Big Math Network: Industry Connection Series since 2022
• Participant, Online Undergraduate Resource Fair for the Advancement and Alliance of Marginalized
Mathematicians, Nov. 19–20, 2022
• Participant, Lewis-Burke’s workshop, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological
Technologies Office (BTO), Feb. 4, 2022
• Participant, KU-VA Infectious Disease Event, KU Office of Research, Nov. 4, 2021
• Participant, CURM Summer Faculty Workshop, The Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics,
May 19–20, 2021
• Participant, Transforming the Teaching & Learning Environment Virtual Conference, Northeastern
State University, Feb. 1–12, 2021
• Participant, 2021 Student Learning Symposium, Center for Teaching Excellence, KU, Jan. 26, 2021
• Participant, Launch Integrating STEM + KC, UMKC, November 19, 2020
• Participant, Flexible Course Design Camp, Center for Teaching Excellence, KU, June 22–25, 2020
Education
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 2001
Thesis Advisor: Kevin Zumbrun • Minor: Scientific Computing
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas August 2011–Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas August 2005–July 2011
Zassenhaus Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University September
2001–June 2005