STEP People

Principal Investigator

• Dr. Kandethody Ramachandran, Professor and Director of Statistics Graduate Admissions, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Co-Principal Investigators

• Dr. Catherine Bénéteau, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Dr. Scott Campbell, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
• Dr. Gordon Fox, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
• Dr. Arcadii Grinshpan, Scholar/Scientist/Engineer & Director of the Center for Industrial and Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Senior Personnel

• Dr. Jennifer Lewis, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
• Dr. Marcus McWaters, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Advisory Board

• Internal
• Dr. Ralph Wilcox (Committee Chair), Executive Vice President and Provost
• Dr. Paul Dosal, Vice President for Student Success
• Dr. Robert Potter, Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
• Dr. Rafael Perez, Associate Dean of Academics, College of Engineering
• Dr. Tapas Das, Professor, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
• Dr. Dmitry Khavinson, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• External
• Dr. Bruce J. Cochrane, Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Miami University
• Craig Johnson, Committee Chair, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Hillsborough Community College
• Dr. Morrison Obeng, Department Head of Engineering, Bethune-Cookman College

External Evaluator

• Dr. John P. Holcomb, Jr., Professor of Mathematics, Cleveland State University

Faculty Participants

• Fernando Burgos (Projects), Instructor & Mathematics Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Brian Curtin (Projects), Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Lesław Skrzypek (Projects), Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Olena Maymeskul (Peer Leading), Adjunct Instructor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Brendan Nagle (Peer Leading), Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Sherwin Kouchekian (Projects), Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Xiang-dong Hou (Peer Leading), Associate Professor & Director of Mathematics Graduate Admissions
• Nataša Jonoska (Peer Leading), Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Boris Shekhtman (Peer Leading), Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Manoug Manougian (Peer Leading), Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Mohamed Elhamdadi (Projects), Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Razvan Teodorescu (Projects), Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Scott Rimbey (Peer Leading), Instructor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Milé Krajčevski (Peer Leading), Instructor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Masahiko Saito (Projects), Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Thomas Bieske (Projects), Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Gerald Hefley (Projects), Adjunct Instructor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• David Kerr, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Alrazi Abdeljabbar, Ph.D. Student, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Assistants

• Lisa De Castro, Curriculum Development/Peer Leading, Ph.D. Student, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Maria Del Pilar Lopera-Blair, Project Development, Department of Biology
• Mayur Palankar, Project Development, Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering
• Albert Paone, Project Manager, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• Jonathan Burns, Project Development, Ph.D. Student, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Undergraduate Tutors and Peer Leaders