Kumar, Lee, Li, and Salch join the department

The department is pleased to announce that we have now hired four assistant professors, each of whom will start in Fall, 2011. They are, in alphabetical order, Rohini Kumar, Kyungyong Lee, Hengguang Li, and Andrew Salch.

Dr. Kumar is a probabilist who received her PhD in 2009 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the direction of Timo Seppalainen. Dr. Kumar has been a postdoctoral fellow for the past two years in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Lee is an algebraist who received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Michigan under the direction of Robert Lazarsfeld. He served two years in a postdoctoral position at Purdue University before taking his current position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Connecticut.

Dr. Li is an applied mathematician. He obtained a PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 2008 under Victor Nistor and Ludmil T. Zikatanov. From 2008-2010 he was Philip T. Church Postdoc in the Department of Mathematics as Syracuse University. He has been a postdoc at the IMA for the past year.

Dr. Salch is an algebraic topologist who received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Rochester under the direction of Douglas Ravenel. He has been the J. J. Sylvester Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University since then.