Faculty Mentors
Dr. Andrew Christlieb
Dr. Christlieb is one of the inaugural University Foundation Professors at Michigan State University. In addition to running an active research group in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, he currently serves as the founding director of the Center of Hierarchical and Robust Modeling of Non-Equilibrium Transport (CHaRMNET), a Department of Energy funded center focused on development of new mathematics and data science techniques to help realize the vision of a clean energy future through nuclear fusion.
Dr. Christian Parkinson
Dr Parkinson is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Mathematics and Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. From Fall 2020 - Spring 2024, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Mathematics Department at the University of Arizona. I was there as part of the Research Training Group in Data Driven Discovery. Before that, he received his doctorate in Applied Mathematics from UCLA, where he studied level set methods and applied optimal control theory under the advice of Andrea Bertozzi and Stan Osher.
Dr. Dirk Colbry
Dr. Colbry is a specialist in computational education in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. His principal areas of research include machine vision and pattern recognition (specializing in scientific image understanding).
Dr. Huan Lei
Dr. Huan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Brown University. His research focuses on the multi-scale modeling and stochastic simulation. His recent work mainly focuses on developing data-driven methods to learn high-fidelity physics-informed computational models directly from micro-scale descriptions.
Dr. Lianzhang Bao
Dr. Bao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. His research focuses on problems related to nonlinear parabolic PDE’s arising in biological contexts. Dr. Bao received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from MSU; prior to joining CMSE he was a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Auburn University.
Dr. Ryan LaRose
Dr LaRose is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE) in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University. He does research in computational physics and quantum information science. he is interested in both the physics of computation and the computation of physics - that is, what quantum physics can tell us about information and computer science, and how quantum computers can solve practical problems in physics and related fields.
Dr. Samik Bose
Dr. Bose is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. He is interested in understanding the structural, dynamical and spectroscopic changes that take place in various biochemical systems and prefer to study such systems from atomistic/molecular frame of reference. He has expertise on molecular simulations at various time and length scale, QM/MM implementation for large systems, electronic structure theory calculations for structure & spectroscopy and machine learning based method development/statistical analysis for chemistry & biology.
Dr. Alex Dickson
Dr Dickson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. He uses molecular simulations to probe interactions between drug molecules and their receptors in the body. His specialty is in the development and application of new computational methods that allow him to simulate long-timescale events, and design new drug compounds that bind tightly to a given target.
Dr. Phoebe Zarnetske
Dr Zarnetske is a community ecologist and Associate Professor, jointly appointed in the Departments of Forestry and Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. She also holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Plant Biology and am affiliated with the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior (EEBB) Program, Environmental Science and Policy Program (ESPP), and Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) LTER. She oversees the Spatial Ecology Graduate Certificate Program.
Dr. Mengsen Zhang
Dr Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. She is a complex systems scientist and neuroscientist. She seeks new approaches in the interface between topological data analysis (TDA) and dynamical systems.