Associate Professor Vytaras Brazauskas
Vytaras Brazauskas is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). He is a member of the American Statistical
Association and the American Risk and Insurance Association. Professor
Brazauskas received his Ph.D. in mathematical statistics in 1999 from the
University of Texas at Dallas and then joined the UW-Milwaukee, where he
teaches courses in statistics and mathematics. Prior to coming to Dallas,
he was employed by Baltijos Garantas, an insurance company based in Vilnius
(Lithuania).
Professor Brazauskas' areas of expertise are statistics and actuarial science. In 2000, he was awarded a research grant from the Actuarial Education and Research Fund to develop more accurate methods for pricing of reinsurance treaties. His research articles have appeared in refereed academic journals. In statistics, he has focussed on robust procedures, nonparametric methods, and statistical inference. This work has appeared as published articles in Extremes, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Statistics and Probability Letters, and Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods. In actuarial science, he has worked on robust model fitting, risk prediction, and reinsurance. These contributions to the literature have appeared in the leading actuarial journals - the North American Actuarial Journal, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, and ASTIN Bulletin: Journal of the International Actuarial Association.
In addition to his research and teaching activities, Dr. Brazauskas serves as a supervisor of the professional actuarial examinations administered by the Society of Actuaries and the Casualty Actuarial Society at the UW-Milwaukee testing center. Jointly with other statisticians in the department he also offers statistical consulting services for the UWM scientific community.
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Assistant Professor Daniel Gervini
Assistant Professor Daniel Gervini joined the Department of Mathematical
Sciences in August 2004. His current area of research is Functional
Data Analysis and nonparametric and semiparametric Statistics.
From September 2001 to March 2004 he was a postdoc in
the Department of Biostatistics of the University of Zurich, collaborating
with Professors Theo Gasser and Burkhardt Seifert. From August 1999 to May
2001 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department
of Statistics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in
1999 with thesis advisor Professor Victor J. Yohai.
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Assistant Professor Suzanne Hruska
Suzanne Hruska joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UWM in the
fall of 2006. She completed a PhD in Mathematics from Cornell University
in August 2002, with thesis advisor John Smillie. She then spent one
academic year as a VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellow at the State University of New
York - Stony Brook, and then three years in the same position at Indiana
University.
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Associate Professor Vince Larson
Vincent Larson specializes in atmospheric science. The atmosphere
attracts interest because of its beauty and power. The air motions that
form cumulus clouds and lead to their cauliflower shape are among the most
turbulent on earth. Dr. Larson's research concerns the numerical
simulation of clouds and turbulence. To do this, he has built a 22-node
parallel computer cluster.
Dr. Larson is supported currently by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant supports research into the structure and evolution of altocumulus clouds, which are routinely observed but little studied.
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Assistant Professor Istvan Lauko
Istvan Lauko graduated from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX in
1997. He spent three years as a visiting assistant professor at NC
State University, and joined the Department of Mathematical
Sciences at UWM in 2001. His research interests include aspects of
mathematical modeling, control theory and image processing. In
particular, he is involved in developing image filtering
algorithms applicable in magnetic resonance imaging, and he also
works on a project related to nonlinear stabilization of control
systems. Dr Lauko is a member of the Society of Industrial and
Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
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Associate Professor Gabriella Pinter
Gabriella Pinter joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences at
UWM in August 2000 after spending three years at the Center for
Research in Scientific Computation at NC State University. She
received her PhD in Mathematics at Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
TX in 1997. Her research interests are in nonlinear partial
differential equations that describe real life phenomena. She is
involved in several projects that include the modeling of
hysteresis in nonlinear polymers, the propagation of high
frequency electromagnetic pulses through dielectric materials and
biological models, e.g., shear wave propagation in soft tissue.
Her work on the high frequency electromagnetic wave propagation is
supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
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Associate Professor Dexuan Xie
Dr. Dexuan Xie received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in the
Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston in 1995. Before
joining UWM, Dr. Xie was a postdoctoral fellow in the Courant Institute
of Mathematical Sciences at the New York University and a tenure-track
Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. His
research fields include parallel iterative methods for partial
differential equations, large-scale nonlinear optimization, and
computational biology. With the grant awards from NSF and UWM, he
established the High Performance Scientific Computing Laboratory in the
department in 2002. Currently, the Lab has two supercomputers (SGI
Origin 2000 with 16 processors and Origin 300 with 4 processors) and
three Unix/Linux workstations, and supports two graduate students as
research project assistants. Dr. Xies research objective is to develop
new mathematical models and theories, new computer algorithms, and new
software packages for fast solving challenging scientific computing
problems arising from protein simulations and chemical database
analyses. He received one Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities in 2001. Part of his thesis
work won the First Prize in the Student Paper Competition of the Copper
Mountain Multigrid Method Conference in 1995
parallel computer cluster.
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Assistant Professor Jeb Willenbring
Jeb Willenbring's research interests are in the area of
representation theory. This branch of mathematics
investigates the mathematical properties of symmetry and
their applications to the other sciences. The work involves
a combination of abstract methodology from all areas of
mathematics together with a lot of experimental computer
work using symbolic computation packages such as MAPLE and
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