Curricula Vitae in AK Mathematical Sciences

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Hani Abu-Salem Professor	Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Database and Data mining	More than twenty eight years of teaching, managing and supervising academic programs, and developing dynamic new curricula. Expertise in Teaching and research in Information Technology, Databases, Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing.
Dr. Tieling Chen Professor	mathematical operations, color models	Dr. Tieling Chen conducts research in edge detection in remotely sensed images. Mathematical operations such as wavelet transformation, gradient operation, and Laplace operation are used to locate the boundaries of man-made objects. His interests also include color models, which are abstract mathematical models used to describe colors. Color models have significant applications in computer graphics and color imaging.
Dr. Koffi B Fadimba Professor		My research program has focused on investigating mainly equations obtained from modeling multi-phase flow through porous media. Example applications include groundwater flow and pollution (single phase flow, concentration problem), and oil reservoir simulations (immiscible flow, saturation problems[18]--[20]), but the techniques developed can be applied to other type of advection-diffusion equations.
Bethany Fralick Associate Professor	Engineering	Bethany Fralick is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Mathematical Sciences at University of South Carolina Aiken.
Dr. Mohammad Hailat Department Chair/Professor	Mathematics	Dr. Mohammad Hailat is interested the classification problem of root systems associated with Lie algebras. He is also interested in some areas of graph theory, such as basis number of graphs, friendship theory and related topics.
Paul Ilukor Senior Instructor	Mathematical Sciences	Paul O. Ilukor is an Instructor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of SC Aiken.
David Jaspers Senior Instructor	Mathematical Sciences	I'm originally from Ohio, born in Cincinnati and raised in Columbus. After graduating from Kent State (Go Golden Flashes!) in 1981, I started at USC Columbia (Go Gamecocks!). I received my Masters in Math at USC in 1984, and I started at USC Aiken later that same year. I've been here ever since.
Reginald Koo Professor	Mathematics	Dr. Reginald Koo conducts research in analysis (conjugate function, inequalities) and probability (decision theory), and general mathematics as in Mathematics Magazine, and The College Mathematics Journal, of the Mathematical Association of America.
Dr. Rao Li Professor	mathematics	I obtained my Ph. D. (with concentration on graph theory) and M.S. (with concentration on computer science) in May 1999. Between August 1999 and May 2001 I taught computer science and computer information science courses in the School of Computer and Information Sciences at Georgia Southwestern State University. I joined Dept. of mathematical sciences at University of South Carolina Aiken in Fall 2001.
Mr. Zhenheng Li, PhD Professor	computer science, mathematics	He received a Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Professor Lex Renner in Mathematics at The University of Western Ontario (UWO) in the first year of the 21th century. He successfully completed his Master program supervised by Profoessor Sheng Yu in the Computer Science Department at UWO in 2003. He was awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship by NRC, National Research Council of Canada, in 2002.
Titan Paul Associate Professor	Mechanical Engineering	Dr. Paul’s research interest includes Energy storage liquid for solar technologies, Heat transfer with phase change, Numerical methods in conjugate heat and mass transfer problem, Thermal management of microelectronics, and Heat transfer and moisture migration problems in building environment.
Gerald Prendergast Assistant Professor	modeling and simulation of underwater explosions	Dr. Prendergast obtained his MS degree and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, in Monterey, CA. His research studies focused on the modeling and simulation of underwater explosions and the resulting low frequency whipping response of nearby surface ships. He also holds an MS degree in Education from Old Dominion University and received his BS degree in General Engineering from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
David Ramsey Instructor	Mathematical Sciences	David G. Ramsey is an Instructor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of SC Aiken.
Dr. Thomas F. Reid Assistant Professor	Applied and Industrial Mathematics	I served in the US Air Force from 1982-2002. Of all the things I did, one of the most interesting was working on the F-22 stealth fighter operational test plan. That job combined a lot of statistics and computer simulation. It was a blast! My last (and arguably the best) Air Force job was teaching mathematics and statistics at the Air Force Institute of Technology. In 2002, I retired from the Air Force and came to USC Aiken, where I teach Applied and Industrial Mathematics and Statistics.
William Robert Shipes Instructor		William Shipes is an Instructor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of SC Aiken.
Dr. Hala Strohmier Berry Assistant Professor	Cybersecurity, Homeland Security, Entrepeneurship	Dr. Hala Strohmier Berry joined the University of South Carolina Aiken, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor and the Director of the USC Aiken Center for Cyber Initiatives and Awareness (CCIA). She received her Doctor of Engineering and Master of Science in Information Systems Technology from the George Washington University, Washington DC in 2018.
Richard Terlizzi Senior Instructor	Mathematical Sciences	Richard Terlizzi is an Instructor for the Department of Mathematical Sciences at University of South Carolina Aiken.
Dr. Yilian Zhang Associate Professor	Algebra, Numerical methods	Dr. Yilian Zhang’s research interest is in inverse scattering problem and dynamic systems. She is currently involved in studying the characteristic features of a new type of integrable system that is derived from inverse problem, and is also working on robust algorithm for finding roots of transcendental equations, which links the idea of Chebyshev interpolation and interesting dynamics of the Newton map.