| Name | Department | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Statistics and Actuarial Science | Statistics and financial mathematics | |
| Alexander Schied | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Applied probability and mathematical finance |
| Ali Ghodsi | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Machine learning, Big data, Deep learning, Unsupervised learning, Dimensionality reduction |
| Anita T. Layton | Applied Mathematics | Mathematical Biology and Medicine |
| Arne Storjohann | Computer Science | Symbolic and Exact Linear Algebra, Algorithmic Number Theory |
| Ben Feng | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Computational Finance, Computational Optimization, Monte Carlo and Stochastic Methods |
| Bin Li | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Actuarial science, applied probability, mathematical finance, and partial differential equations |
| Brian Ingalls | Applied Mathematics | Applications of Systems and Control Theory to Molecular Systems Biology and to Synthetic Biology |
| Chaitanya Swamy | Combinatorics and Optimization | Combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, algorithmic game theory, stochastic optimization, network design, scheduling, and online algorithms. |
| Chengguo Weng | Statistics and Actuarial Science |
Stochastic optimization, predictive analytics for insurance and finance, portfolio optimization |
| Chris Bauch | Applied Mathematics | Mathematical Biology, Ecology and Epidemiology, Sustainability Science, Dynamical Systems, Behavioural Models |
| Chris Fletcher | Geography and Environmental Management | Atmospheric circulation in determining regional patterns of temperature and precipitation |
| Chris Godsil | Combinatorics and Optimization | Cover, Homomorphisms and Colorings, EKR Theorems, Complex Lines, Graph Spectra |
| Christiane Lemieux | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Quasi-Monte Carlo methods and their applications |
| Christopher Batty | Computer Science | Physics-Based Animation |
| Dan Brown | Computer Science | Understanding of sequential data, joining ideas from evolutionary theory with probabilistic modeling and discrete mathematical ideas. |
| David Gosset | Combinatorics and Optimization | The theory of quantum computing, quantum algorithms and quantum complexity theory. |
| Eric Schost | Computer Science |
Computer algebra, from polynomial system solving to efficient polynomial and power series arithmetic |
| Francis Poulin | Applied Mathematics | Geophysical fluid dynamics, Stochastic differential equations, Biological fluid dynamics, Computational mathematics |
| George Labahn | Computer Science | Computer Algebra with a secondary area being in the field of Computational Finance |
| Giang Tran | Applied Mathematics | Sparse Modeling and Sparse Optimization Methods, Data Science, Image Processing and Medical Imaging, Compressed Sensing |
| Gladimir Baranoski | Computer Science | Predictive simulation of light interactions with organic materials and the biophysically-based rendering of natural phenomena |
| Greg Rice | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Functional Data Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Change Point Analysis, Panel Data, and Central Limit Theory for Stationary Processes |
| Hans De Sterck | Applied Mathematics |
Large-scale scientific computing, Multilevel numerical linear algebra methods, Numerical methods for PDEs, Novel platforms for scientific computing including GPUs and clouds, Computational fluid dynamics |
| Henry Shum | Applied Mathematics | Biological fluid dynamics, microswimmers, biological and chemical reaction networks, numerical methods for fluid-structure interactions |
| Henry Wolkowicz | Combinatorics and Optimization |
Optimization; Mathematical Programming (linear, nonlinear, semidefinite programming, semi-infinite); Low Rank Matrix Completions, Compressive Sensing; Quadratic Assignment, Graph Partitioning, Knapsack Problems; Numerical Analysis (numerical linear algebra); Convex Analysis; Matrix Theory (eigenvalue bounds, invariant cones); Generalized Inverses (operators and matrices) |
| Ilias Kotsireas | Wilfrid Laurier University (Department of Physics & Computer Science | Symbolic Computation, Computer Algebra, Computational Algebra, Combinatorial Matrix Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, Commutative Algebra & Algebraic Geometry, Computer Algebra, Combinatorial Designs, Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics |
| Jeff Orchard | Computer Science | Computational neuroscience, using mathematical models and computer simulations of neural networks to understand how the brain works |
| Jesse Hoey | Computer Science | Artificial intelligence, affective computing, and health informatics |
| Jochen Koenemann | Combinatorics and Optimization | Approximation Algorithms, Algorithmic Game Theory, Combinatorial Optimization |
| Jun Liu | Applied Mathematics | Computational aspects of control and dynamical systems |
| Justin Wan | Computer Science | Numerical solutions of partial differential equations, iterative methods, and multigrid preconditioning with applications in medical image registration, cell image segmentation, tracking of cell images, computational finance, and parallel computation on high performance platforms. |
| Katerina Papoulia | Applied Mathematics |
Continuum mechanics, finite element methods in mechanics, crack propagation, failure mechanics, composite materials. |
| Ken Seng Tan | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Intersection of actuarial science, finance, mathematics, and statistics |
| Kevin Hare | Pure Mathematics | Number theory, Fractal geometry |
| Kevin Lamb | Applied Mathematics | Nonlinear waves, Internal gravity waves and surface water waves, Hydrodynamic instabilities and mixing, Physical oceanography and limnology, Coupling of hydrodynamic and bio-geochemical processes in lakes, Computational fluid dynamics |
| Kimon Fountoulakis | Computer Science |
Algorithms for convex optimization with applications in machine learning problems such as local graph clustering, community detection, regression and classification. |
| Kirsten Morris | Applied Mathematics |
Infinite-dimensional control systems, Computation of controllers for systems modelled by partial differential equations, Optimal actuator/sensor location, Robust control of smart materials, Hysteresis |
| Levent Tunçel | Combinatorics and Optimization | Mathematical optimization, mathematics of operations research and foundations of computational mathematics |
| Lilia Krivodonova | Applied Mathematics | Discontinuous Galerkin methods, Error estimation and adaptive methods, Finite element methods, Numerical solution of PDEs in complex geometries, Hyperbolic conservation laws |
| Marek Stastna | Applied Mathematics | Stratified fluid dynamics in lakes and the coastal oceans, The climate dynamics, Wave dynamics in porous media |
| Marius Hofert | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Development of mathematical, statistical and computational tools in copula modeling |
| Mark Giesbrecht | Computer Science | Computer algebra, algebraic algorithms and computational complexity |
| Martin Lysy | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Continuous stochastic processes, Graphical and hierarchical modeling, Mediation analysis |
| Matthias Schonlau | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Applied survey sampling and survey methodology, machine learning from text data such as open-ended questions as well as software implementation of his research |
| Michael Rubinstein | Pure Mathematics | Number Theory |
| Michael Wallace | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Causal inference, with a specific focus on dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) and personalized medicine |
| Michael Waite | Applied Mathematics | Turbulence in rotating stratified fluids, Vortices in stratified fluids, Mesoscale atmospheric dynamics, Tropical convection |
| Michelle Delcourt | Combinatorics and Optimization | Extremal combinatorics and structural graph theory |
| Mu Zhu | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Statistical machine learning and multivariate analysis, with their applications in health informatics, bioinformatics, and data mining |
| Olga Veksler | Computer Science | Visual correspondence (stereo, motion) and image segmentation |
| Pascal Poupart | Computer Science | Artificial intelligence and more precisely in the areas of reasoning under uncertainty and machine learning, with application to health informatics and natural language processing |
| Paul Marriott | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Theoretical and applied work |
| Peisong Han | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Development of new methodologies for statistical analysis with missing data along the line of semiparametric approaches, where only certain moments of the data distribution are specified |
| Peter Forsyth | Computer Science | Financial derivative securities |
| Ricardo Fukasawa | Combinatorics and Optimization | Mixed Integer Programming (theory and computation), Operations Research, Polyhedral Combinatorics, Combinatorial Optimization |
| Robert Gracie | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Geomechanics and Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas Development |
| Ruodu Wang | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Actuarial science, quantitative risk management, mathematical finance, operations research, applied probability, and statistics. |
| Samuel Wong | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Statistical computation for data-driven applications in protein folding, cell biology, and engineering |
| Sander Rhebergen | Applied Mathematics | Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods, Space-time finite element methods for deforming domain problems, Higher-order accurate finite element methods, Preconditioners, Fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, magma/mantle dynamics, two-phase flows |
| Serge D'Alessio | Applied Mathematics | Analytical and computational methods to solve viscous incompressible thermofluid flows. |
| Shai Ben-David | Computer Science | Foundations of computer science and its applications, with a particular emphasis on statistical and computational machine learning |
| Soroosh Yazdani | Computational Number Theory/Arithmetic Geometry | |
| Stefan Steiner | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Business and industrial statistics focusing on process improvement |
| Stephen Vavasis | Combinatorics and Optimization | Continuous optimization and numerical analysis |
| Stephen Watt | Computer Science | Computer algebra (e.g. algorithms and applications of gcd and factorization of various sorts of polynomials), programming languages and compilers (e.g. implementation of dependent types, compiler optimizaions for programming languages with templates or genenerics, garbage collection), pen-based computing (e.g. pen-based collaboration, mathematical handwriting recognition) and mathematical knowledge management (e.g. mathematical web services and digital mathematical libraries). |
| Sue Ann Campbell | Applied Mathematics | Computational models of biological neural networks, pattern formation in coupled oscillator networks with time delay |
| Tom Coleman | Combinatorics and Optimization | Development of computational methods and tools for compute-intensive and challenging problems with emphasis on applications and computing methodologies such as automatic differentiation and cluster computing technologies |
| Tony Wirjanto | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Statistical methodology for applications in the finance area |
| Wayne Oldford | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Statistical reasoning, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, and the development of interactive computational environments that support these activities, comprise the broad areas of Professor Oldford's research interests. |
| William J. Cook | Combinatorics and Optimization |
Integer programming and combinatorial optimization
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| Yaoliang Yu | Computer Science | Machine learning, statistics, and optimization, with applications in computer vision and multimedia. |
| Yeying Zhu | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Causal inference, machine learning and the interface between the two |
| Yingli Qin | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Hypothesis testing for high-dimensional data with applications to gene sets testing and estimating and testing for large dimensional covariance matrices using the random matrix theory |
| Yulia Gel | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Applications of statistics to business and finance, environmental modeling, and epidemiology. Time series analysis, spatio-temporal processes, nonparametrics, bootstrap and resampling, regularization for weakly dependent data, high-dimensional inference, statistical inference for random graphs and networks. |
| Yuri Boykov | Computer Science | Computer vision and biomedical image analysis with focus on modeling and optimization for structured segmentation, restoration, registration, stereo, motion, model fitting, recognition, photo-video editing and other data analysis problems |
| Yuying Li | Computer Science | Design, analysis and application of computational algorithms for continuous optimization problems and, more generally, problems in scientific computing |
