Biomathematics Graduate Program at North Carolina State University

The Biomathematics Graduate Program faculty consists of individuals within the Department of Statistics and the Department of Mathematics, plus individuals in other departments at NCSU and off-campus adjunct faculty whose main interests involve modeling biological systems.

Core Faculty

Kevin Gross

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Research Interests: Theoretical and statistical ecology, model selection for ecological time series, population dynamics, statistical practice in ecology

Sharon Lubkin

Professor, Department of Mathematics
Research Interests: Transport and mechanobiology in tissue dynamics

Charles E. Smith

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
Research Interests: Neurobiology, stochastic processes, physiological models

Associate Faculty

William R. Atchley

William Neal Reynolds Professor of Genetics and Statistics. International Graduate School in Bioinformatics and Genomics (Germany)
Research Interests: Computational biology, molecular evolution of proteins- particularly transcriptional regulators, evolution and structure of the basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) family of transcription factors, application of multivariate statistical methods to sequence analysis, developmental quantitative genetics, genetic architecture of complex traits.

H. Thomas Banks

Director of Center for Research in Scientific Computation, University Professor and Drexel Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests: Population modeling, cellular and system level PBPK modeling, viscoelastic and tissue continuum modeling, mixed effects and probabilistic models, biomedical diagnostics (particularly using electromagnetic interrogation techniques), HIV (immune system) modeling and STI control, general inverse (estimation) and control problems in biological systems

John Bishir

Emeritus Professor, Department of Mathematics

James F. Gilliam

Professor, Zoology Department
Research Interests: Population ecology, especially spatial processes. Behavioral ecology, especially decisions under threat of death. Ecology of streams and rivers.

Nick Haddad

Associate Professor, Zoology Department
Research Interests: Spatial population and community ecology, conservation biology in fragmented landscapes

Mansoor Haider

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
Research Interests: Cartilage mechanics, osteoarthritis, cell mechanics, cell-matrix interactions, tissue engineering

Carol Hall

Alcoa Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Computer simulations of protein folding and aggregation

George R. Hess

Associate Professor, Forestry Department
Research Interests: Conservation biology in suburbanizing landscapes, effective teaching and learning

Thomas Johnson

Emeritus Professor, Agric. and Resource Economics Department

Spencer V. Muse

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

Mette Olufsen

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
Research Interests: Mathematical physiology, control of the cardiovascular system, cardiovascular fluid dynamics

Kenneth H. Pollock

Professor, Departments of Statistics and Zoology
Research Interests: Wildlife and fisheries statistics and modelling, ecology and conservation biology, sampling animal populations, biometrics

Jim Riviere

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Chemical Toxicology Research and Pharmacokinetics, College of Veterinary Medicine

Henry Schaffer

Professor, Department of Genetics

James F. Selgrade

Professor, Department of Mathematics
Research Interests: Population biology and genetics, endocrine modeling, menstrual cycle control, dynamical systems and ordinary differential equations

R. E. Stinner

Professor, Director of Center for Integrated Pest Management, Entomology Department

Jeff Thorne

Professor, Departments of Genetics and Statistics
Research Interests: Molecular evolution

Hien T. Tran

Professor, Center for Research in Scientific Computation, Department of Mathematics

Gail G. Wilkerson

Professor, Crop Science Department

Zhao-Bang Zeng

Research Professor of Statistics and Genetics

Adjunct Faculty

Georgiy Bobashev

Senior Research Statistician, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC

Rory Conolly

EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC

Larry B. Crowder

Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University. Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC
Research Interests: Population and community ecology, marine ecology and fisheries, marine conservation biology and policy

Tim Elston

Applied Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill

John M. Hoenig

Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia

Julia S. Kimbell

Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC

Michael W. Lutz

Mathematical Applications Group/GlaxoSmithKline Research Labs

Paul H. Morgan

Mathematical Applications Group/GlaxoSmithKline Research Labs