Research in Mathematics and Statistics

Tamer Elbayoumi, Assistant Professor
Education: B.S. and M.S. Mansoura University; Ph.D., Western Michigan University
Office: 318 Merrick Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-3483
E-mail: tmelbayoumi@ncat.edu

Abeer Hasan, Associate Professor 
Education: Ph.D, Bowling Green State University
E-mail: amhassan@ncat.edu  

Seong-Tae Kim, Associate Professor
Education: B.A., Hanyang University; M.A., Korea University; M.S. and Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Office: 123B Hines Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-4758
E-mail: skim@ncat.edu

Binglin Li, Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., UC Davis; Ph.D., University of Georgia
E-mail: bli2@ncat.edu

Sayed A. Mostafa, Assistant Professor
Education: B.S., Cairo University; M.S. and Ph.D., Oklahoma State University.
Office: 3005 Smith Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-3104
E-mail: sabdelmegeed@ncat.edu 

Selected Publications

• Tamer Elbayoumi, Hossein Sahour (2020). (Statistical Applications to Downscale GRACE‐ Derived Terrestrial Water Storage Data and to Fill Temporal Gaps). (533) 12, pp. 1-30 ). Remote Sensing.
• Seongtae Kim, Man Sik Park (2018). (A Study on Time-Series Clustering based on Dynamic Time Warping). (5) 20, pp. 2319-2332 ). Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society.

• Ibrahim Ahmad, Sayed Mostafa (2019). (Kernel density estimation from complex surveys in the presence of complete auxiliary information). (3) 82, pp. 295-338 ). Metrika.
• Made, A.F., and Hasan, A., "Creating a More Equitable Computer Science Course through Peer-Mentoring." Journal of Computational Science in Colleges, 35:5, 2020.

Mingxiang Chen, Professor and Mathematics (Applied Mathematics) Program Coordinator
Education: B.S. and M.S., Huazhong Normal University; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Office: 234 Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2070
E-mail: chen@ncat.edu

Dominic P. Clemence, Professor
Education: B.S., North Carolina A&T State University; M.S., Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Office: 110 Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2076

E-mail: clemence@ncat.edu

Alexandra Kurepa, Professor and Applied Mathematics Graduate Program Coordinator
Education: B.S. and M.S., University of Zagreb; Ph.D., University of North Texas
Office: 111 Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2079
E-mail: kurepa@ncat.edu

Liping Liu, Associate Professor
Education: B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Ph.D, University of Alberta
Office: A431 General Classroom Building
Office Phone: 336-285-3519
E-mail: lliu@ncat.edu
 

Selected Publications

• Mingxiang Chen, Dominic Clemence, Gregory Goins, Thomas Redd, Catherine White (2016). (Forming a Biomathematical Learning Alliance Across Traditional Academic Departments). In Carissa Davies, (6) 4, pp. 16-23 ). International Journal for Innovation Education and Research.
• Dominic Clemence, Kathy Cousins-Cooper, Seongtae Kim, Nicholas Luke, Thomas Redd (2019). (Math Emporium Instructional Course Design: Algebra Course Evolution at an HBCU). In Zakiya S. Wilson-Kennedy, Goldie S. Byrd, Eugene Kennedy, Henry T. Frierson , (Broadening Participation in STEM: Effective Methods, Practices, and Programs) 22, pp. 237-263 ).

• John Roop, Alexandra Kurepa, Kossi Edoh,  (2018). (Instructional Selection of Active Learning and Traditional Courses Increases Student Achievement in College Mathematics). (7) 5, pp. 11-19 ). Journal of Education and Learning.
• Samuel Berkovic, Liping Liu, Michael Silk, Joshua Traynelis, Quanli Wang (2017). (Optimizing genomic medicine in epilepsy through a gene-customized approach to missense variant interpretation). 27, pp. 1715-1729 ). Genome Research.

Kathy M. Cousins-Cooper, Professor 
Education: B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; M.S., North Carolina A&T State University; Ph.D., University of South Florida
Office: 201A Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2074
E-mail: cousinsk@ncat.edu

Selected Publications

• Kathy Cousins-Cooper, Seongtae Kim, Nicholas Luke, Katrina Nelson (2017). (The Effect of the Math Emporium Instructional Method on Students' Performance in College Algebra). (1) 5, pp. 1-13 ). European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education.
• Kathy Cousins-Cooper, Nicholas Luke, Thomas Redd (2016). (Fundamentals of Algebra & Trigonometry Workbook). (3rd) ). Pearson.

Nicholas Luke, Professor and Student Success Coordinator
Education: B.S., North Carolina A&T State University; M.S. and Ph.D, North Carolina State University
Office: 107 Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-3520
E-mail: luke@ncat.edu 

Choongseok Park, Associate Professor
Education: B.S., Yonsei University; Ph.D., Ohio State University

Office: 123C Hines Hall

Office Phone: 336-285-4973

E-mail: cpark@ncat.edu

Thomas C. Redd, Associate Professor & Associate Chair
Education: B.S., Fort Valley State University; M.S., University of Oklahoma; M.S. and Ph.D., Brown University

Office: A441 General Classroom Building

Office Phone: 336-285-3530

E-mail: tcredd@ncat.edu

Guoqing Tang, Professor and Chair
Education: B.S., Anhui University; M.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Ph.D., Rutgers University
Office: 102B Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2089
E-mail: tang@ncat.edu 

Paramanathan Varatharajah, Associate Professor
Education: B.S., University of Jaffna; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Arizona
Office: 228 Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2091
E-mail: rajah@ncat.edu

Selected Publications

• Crista Arangala, Nicholas Luke, Karen Yokley (2018). (Mathematical Modeling: Branching Beyond Calculus). pp. 304 ). CRC Press|Taylor & Francis Group.
• Dominic Clemence, Kathy Cousins-Cooper, Seongtae Kim, Nicholas Luke, Thomas Redd (2019). (Math Emporium Instructional Course Design: Algebra Course Evolution at an HBCU). In Zakiya S. Wilson-Kennedy, Goldie S. Byrd, Eugene Kennedy, Henry T. Frierson , (Broadening Participation in STEM: Effective Methods, Practices, and Programs) 22, pp. 237-263 ).
• Sungwoo Ahn, Choongseok Park (2019). (Neural synchronization in Parkinson’s disease on different time-scales). In Cutsuridis V, (Handbook of Multi-scale Models of Brain Disorders : From Microscopic to Macroscopic Assessment of Brain Dynamics ) 13, ). Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Springer, Cham.

• Goldie Byrd, Guoqing Tang, Zakiya Wilson-Kennedy (2019). (Faculty Motivation for Scholarly Teaching and Innovative Classroom Practice—An Empirical Study). (Research and Practice in Chemistry Education) pp. 65-88 ). Springer Singapore.

Kossi D. Edoh, Professor
Education: B.S., University of Cape Coast; M.S. and Ph.D., Simon Fraser University
Office: 110 Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2073
E-mail: kdedoh@ncat.edu

Yevgeniy A. Rastigejev, Professor
Education: M.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Office: 308 Gibbs Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2223
E-mail: yarastig@ncat.edu

John P. Roop, Associate Professor
Education: B.S., Roanoke College; M.S. and Ph.D., Clemson University
Office: 233A Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2086
E-mail: jproop@ncat.edu

Ling Xu, Assistant Professor
Education: B.S., Xiamen University; MS and Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Office: 318 Merrick Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-3484
E-mail: lxu@ncat.edu

Selected Publications

• Kossi Edoh (2014). (Modeling cicada sound production and propagation). (4) 22, pp. 617-630 ). Journal of Biological Systems.
• Anton Pylypenko, Yevgenii Rastigejev, Abolghasem Shahbazi, Lijun Wang (2017). (Experimental and Numerical Sudy of Cold Gas-solid Hydrodynamics in a Fluidized Bed Gasifier). (PowerEnergy2017-3263) pp. 10 ). ASME paper .
• Vincent Ervin, Norbert Heuer, John Roop (2018). (Regularity of the Solution to 1-D Fractional Order Diffusion Equations). 87, pp. 2273-2294 ). Mathematics of Computation.
• Ling Xu (2019), Numerical study of the material transport in the viscous vortex dipole flow, Physics of Fluids, 31: 053602.

Shea D. Burns, Associate Professor
Education: B.S., North Carolina A&T State University; M.S., Ph.D., Howard University
Office: 128 Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2069
E-mail: sburns@ncat.edu 

Zachary Denton, Associate Professor
Education: B.S., Middle Tennessee State University; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Office: 123A Hines Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-4756
E-mail: zdenton@ncat.edu 

Gregory Gibson, Associate Professor
Education: B.A., State University of New York/College at Geneseo; M.S. and Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Office: 208 Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2078
E-mail: gagibson@ncat.edu 

Safeer Khan, Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., Tokyo Institute of Technology
E-mail: shkhan@ncat.edu

Barbara Tankersley, Associate Professor and Retention & Advisement Coordinator
Education: B.S., Paine College; M.S., North Carolina A&T State University; M.S. and Ph.D., Howard University
Office: 105 Marteena Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2090
E-mail: tankers@ncat.edu

John Paul Ward, Associate Professor
Education: B.S., University of Georgia; Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Research Areas: Applied Harmonic Analysis, Signal and Imaging Processing
Office: 323 Hines Hall
Office Phone: 336-285-2093
E-mail: jpward@ncat.edu

Selected Publications

• Lance Bryant, Shea Burns, Jason Callahan (2016). (Invariants of Knots and Links). (Knots, Molecules, and the Universe: An Introduction to Topology) pp. 239-263 ). American Mathematical Society.
• Zachary Denton, Juan Ramirez (2018). (Monotone Method for Finite Systems of Nonlinear Riemann-Liouville Fractional Integro-Differential Equations). (2) 18, pp. 130-143 ). Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory.
• Belinda Clemence-Mkhope, D Clemence-Mkhope, Kathy Cousins-Cooper, Seong-Tae Kim, Janis Oldham, Barbara Tankersley, Paramanathan Varatharajah (2019). (SCALE-UP Instructional Redesign of a Calculus Course at an HBCU). (1) 7, pp. 31-44 ). International Journal for Innovation Education and Research.
• Arash Amini, Julien Fageot, Zsuzsanna Puspoki, Michael Unser, John Paul Ward (2019). (Angular Accuracy of Steerable Feature Detectors). (1) 12, pp. 344-371 ). SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences .
• Okeke, G. A., Khan, S. H., & Kim, J. K. (2021). FIXED POINT THEOREMS IN COMPLEX VALUED CONVEX METRIC SPACES. Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Applications, 26(1), 117-135