Faculty



	Nicholas Brummell Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-2122 Baskin Engineering Room 125
	Fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, numerical simulations of geophysical and astrophysical dynamics, especially solar interior physics, supercomputing.


	David Draper Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1295 Baskin Engineering Room 135
	Bayesian statistics, hierarchical modeling, stochastic optimization, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, statistical model uncertainty, quality assessment in health & education, stochastic modeling in the medical and social sciences.


	Pascale Garaud Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1055 Baskin Engineering Room 131
	Astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics.

	Qi Gong Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1047 Baskin Engineering Room 143
	Computational methods for real-time control systems, trajectory optimization and motion planning, nonlinear filtering and observer design, robust and adaptive control of nonlinear systems, industry applications of control theory


	Athanasios Kottas Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-5536 Baskin Engineering Room 153A
	Bayesian nonparametrics, survival analysis, quantile regression modeling, categorical data analysis, spatial statistics.


	Herbert Lee Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1655 Baskin Engineering Room 151
	Bayesian statistics; spatial inverse problems; model selection and model averaging; statistical computing; neural networks; nonparametric regression and classification.


	Marc Mangel Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-5797 Baskin Engineering Room 145
	Mathematical biology, especially evolutionary and behavioral ecology, biodemography, quantitative fishery science, population biology of disease.


	Raquel Prado Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1488 Baskin Engineering Room 149
	Bayesian non-stationary time series modeling, multivariate time series, biomedical signal processing, wavelets and statistical genetics.


	Abel Rodriguez Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1047 Baskin Engineering Room 147
	Bayesian nonparametrics, Bayesian time series and spatial models, public health, financial econometrics, structural proteomics


	Bruno Sanso Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1484 Baskin Engineering Room 139
	Bayesian spatio-temporal modeling. Environmental and geostatistical applications. Modeling of extreme values. Statistical assessment of climate variability.


	Hongyun Wang Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-5653 Baskin Engineering Room 153C
	Molecular modeling and biophysics, numerical analysis, fluid mechanics, computer animation, partial differential equations, parallel computing, statistical physics, data structures, fast algorithms.