EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
- California Community Teaching Fellow, University of
California, Davis, 1978-1980. (Winters Elementary School. Most
fun years as a teacher!)
- Student Teacher, Sacramento High School, 1978-1980.
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles,
1980-1984.
- Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology,
1984-1986.
- Assistant Professor, Purdue University, 1986-1989.
- NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana,
1986-1987.(Advisor: Don Burkholder)
- Associate Professor, Purdue University, 1989-1992.
Professor, Purdue University, 1992-present
- Interim Head, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University,
July 2005-December 2005
- Head, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University,
2007--2011
AWARDS AND
HONORS
- 1984-1986: Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology.
- 1986-1994: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana and
Purdue University.
- 1989-1994: Presidential Young Investigator.
- 2004: Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- 2004: Blackwell-Tapia Prize in Mathematics
- 2009: Outstanding Latino Award, Purdue Latino Faculty and
Staff Association
- 2013: Elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- 2017: Inaugural fellow Fellow, Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
(
- 2017: Martin Luther King Jr Dreamer Award, Purdue
- 2022: American Mathematical Society (AMS) Ward for Distinguished Public Service
- 2023: Elected Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
MEMBERSHIP
IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in
Sciences (SACNAS)
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- European Mathematical Society (EMS)
- Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
- National Association of Mathematicians (NAM)
SERVICES
TO THE PROFESSION (SELECTED)
- Associate Editor, Annals of Probability, 1991-1996
- Probability and Statistics Editor, Transactions of the AMS,
1996-200
- AMS Committee to select hour speakers for regional meetings,
1991-1992, 2020-2022
- Chairman AMS Central Section Program Committee, 1992
- Organizer, Special Session on "Martingales and Applications
to Analysis," March 1993
- 2nd International Symposium in Probability and
Applications, Bloomington, IN.
- National Research Council Evaluation Panel, Ford Foundation
Predoctoral Fellowship, 1995-1996
- Co-Organizer, Special Session on "Stochastic Processes",
joint, November 1995
- American Math Society and Sociedad Matematica Mexicana,
Guanajuato Mexico
- AMS Task Force on Participation of Underrepresented
Minorities, 1995
- Organizer Committee for special year (1997-1998) in
Stochastic Analysis, 1997-1998
- Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA
- The United States National Committee on Mathematics,
1997-2000
- Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Scientific
Advisory Council, 1998-2002
- AMS Committee on Committees, 2002-2004
- Selection Committee for Hour Speakers, AMS-Mexican Math
Society Meeting, 2004
- Co-chair, Selection Committee for Blackwell-Tapia Prize,
2006-2008.
- Advisory Panel for Collaboration Grants in probability,
statistics, harmonic analysis and functional analysis, Simon
Foundation
- AMS Book Prize Committee, 2003-2004
- AMS Fellows Committee, 2019-2022
- AWM Fellows Committee, 2018-2021
- AMS Simons Travel Grant for young investigators, 2015-2018
- Probability Surveys, 2004-2005
- Editorial Board of Probability and Mathematical Statistics,
2006-Present
- IPAM Board of Trustees, 2005-2008
- AMS Leroy P. Steele Prizes Committee, 2005-2008
- Scientific Program Committee, 32nd Conference on Stochastic
Processes and Their Applications, Urbana, Champaign, August
6-10, 2007.
- Scientific Program Committee, Probability and Analysis
Conference, Bedlewo, Poland, 2015.
- Organizing Committee, Latinos in the Mathematical Sciences
Conference, IPAM 2015
- Editorial Board, Revista Matemática Iberoamericana,
2007-Present
- Associate Editor for Burkholder Memorial Volume, Annals of
Probability, 2013-2017
- Editorial Board, Latin American Journal of Probability and
Mathematical Statistics, 2016-present
- Editorial Board, Potential Analysis, 2016-present
- Editorial Board, Latin American Journal of Probability and
Mathematical Statistics, 2015-present
Ph.D.
STUDENTS
- Robert Smits;
"Conditioned Brownian Motion, Spectral Gaps and Rates to
Equilibrium for Diffusions," May 1996
- Arthur J. Lindeman : "Martingales, the Beurling-Ahlfors
Transform, and Lower Bounds for Ground State Eigenfunctions,"
May 1997
- Pedro
Henandez-Mendez: "Sharp inequalities for Dirichlet heat
kernels for the Laplacian and the Fractional Laplacian with
applications to probability," May 2001.
- Dahae You: "Sharp
Inequalities for Schrodinger operators and Laws of the Iterated
Logarithm," May 2002
- Prabhu Janakiraman:
"Weak-Type Estimates for Singular Integrals and Maximal
Operators," May 2004
- Ambica Rajagopal:
"Continuity Properties of symmetric Stable Processes," May 2006
- Erkan Nane:
"Iterated Brownian motion: Lifetime Asymptotics and
Isoperimetric Inequalities," May 2006
- Bartlomeij Siudeja:
"Properties of heat kernels," May 2008
- Sarah N. Bryant:
"Path
and spectral properties of certain Levy processes," August 2009.
- Luis Acuna
Valverde (Download
papers here)
- Michael Perlmutter
(Download
papers here)
- Daesung
Kim
Doob Instructor, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Chapmaign.