Mathematical Sciences

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Chair: William D. Blair

Graduate Faculty

Gregory Ammar, professor, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University 
Gerard Awanou, assistant professor, Ph.D., University of Georgia
Sanjib Basu, professor, Ph.D., Purdue University
John A. Beachy, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D., Indiana University  
Hamid Bellout, professor, Ph.D., Purdue University
William D. Blair, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D, University of Maryland
Harvey I. Blau, professor, Ph.D., Yale University
Richard Blecksmith, professor, Ph.D., University of Arizona
Frederick Bloom, Distinguished Research Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
Douglas Bowman, associate professor, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Biswa N. Datta, Distinguished Research Professor, Ph.D., University of Ottawa
Karabi Datta, associate professor, Ph.D., University of Campinas, Brazil
Sien Deng, associate professor, Ph.D., University of Washington
Nader Ebrahimi, Presidential Research Professor, Ph.D., Iowa State University
Daniel Grubb, associate professor, Ph.D., Kansas State University
Sudhir Gupta, professor, Ph.D., University of Kent
Bernard Harris, director of graduate studies, professor, Ph.D., University of Wales
Ellen Hines, associate professor, Ed.D., Northern Illinois University
Kitty L. Holland, associate professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago
Yoo Pyo Hong, associate professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Balakrishna Hosmane, associate professor, Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Hui Hu, associate professor, Ph.D., Stanford University 
Helen A. Khoury, associate professor, Ph.D., Florida State University
Qingkai Kong, professor, Ph.D., University of Alberta
Ying C. Kwong, associate professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Rama T. Lingham, director, Division of Statistics, associate professor, Ph.D., Purdue University
Anders Linnér, associate professor, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Donald B. McAlister, professor emeritus, Ph.D., Queen’s University (Belfast)
Thomas W. O’Gorman, associate professor, Ph.D., University of Iowa
Ching-Tsuan Pan, associate professor, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Alan Polansky, associate professor, Ph.D., Southern Methodist University
Mohsen Pourahmadi, Presidential Research Professor, Ph.D., Michigan State University
David Rusin, associate professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Mary Shafer, assocate professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Gleb Sirotkin, assistant professor, Ph.D., Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis
Linda R. Sons, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
Diana Steele, professor, Ph.D., University of Florida
Joseph B. Stephen, associate professor, Ph.D., University of Nebraska
Jeffrey L. Thunder, professor, Ph.D., University of Colorado
Peter Waterman, associate professor, Ph.D., University of Aberdeen
John Wolfskill, assistant chair, associate professor, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Hongyou Wu, professor, Ph.D., University of Kansas
Zhuan Ye, professor, Ph.D., Purdue University
Anton Zettl, Distinguished Research Professor, emeritus, Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Alan Zollman, associate professor, Ph.D., Indiana University

The Department of Mathematical Sciences offers graduate programs leading to the M.S. in applied probability and statistics, the M.S. in mathematics, and the Ph.D. in mathematical sciences. Applicants to these graduate programs are normally notified of an admission decision within three weeks of receipt of the complete application.

If a student in an M.S. program has already completed a required 400-level course with a grade of C or better as an undergraduate at NIU, that course requirement will be waived in the student’s M.S. program. Other graduate course work will be substituted to complete the required program, with the approval of the student’s adviser.

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