Faculty

Estie Arkin

Professor, Ph.D., 1986
Stanford University:  Combinatorial optimization, computational geometry

Estie Arkin's primary research area is the design and analysis of algorithms that arise in network optimization, computational geometry, graph theory, scheduling, robotics, geographic information systems, computer graphics, manufacturing, and computer vision. Arkin is interested in analysis of worst-case complexity and approximation algorithms.  

Office: Math Tower P-134B
Phone: 631-632-8363
http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~estie/estie.html 

Joseph Mitchell

Chair, Professor, Ph.D., 1986
Stanford University: Computational geometry

Joe Mitchell is one of the country’s leaders in computational geometry, which studies the design, analysis, and implementation of efficient algorithms to solve geometric problems. His particular interest is applications to problems in computer graphics, visualization, robotics, manufacturing, geographic information systems, and computer vision.  In the 1990’s, he chaired the National Science Foundation advisory committee in computational geometry.  A major current application is helping air traffic controllers route airplanes around bad weather.

Office: Math Tower 1-109
Phone: 631-632-8366
http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~jsbm/jsbm.html 

Eugene 

Eugene Feinberg works in stochastic methods of operations research and their industrial applications.  He is one of the world leaders in Markov decision processes and its application to telecommunication, manufacturing, transportation, service and to other man-made systems. He is one of the country’s experts on optimizing electric energy transmission and forecasting energy demand. Dr. Feinberg previously held appointments at Moscow Institute of Transport Engineering (Russia ), Yale University, and MIT.

Office: Math Tower 1-110
Phone: 631-632-7189
http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~feinberg/ 

Jiaqiao Hu

Associate Professor, Ph.D., 2006
University of Maryland College Park: Operations Research

Jiaqiao Hu's research is focused on designing and analyzing randomized algorithms for solving Markov decision processes and global optimization problems.  He has been investigating new sampling and simulation-based techniques to overcome the computational difficulties associated with traditional methods, where sampling and simulation techniques are used not only to avoid enumerating the entire solution space but also to resolve the issue of the unavailability of explicit mathematical models of the underlying systems. 

Office: Math Tower 1-107
Phone: 631-632-8239
http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~jqhu/ 

Zhenhua Liu

Assistant  Professor, Ph.D., 2014
California Institute of Technology: 

Zhenhua Liu's current research interests include sustainable computing and networking systems, cloud platforms for big data applications and energy management, and renewable energy integration. He develops and applies techniques from distributed system, nonlinear optimization, game theory, and online algorithm for these systems. In particular, his research combines rigorous analysis and system design, and goes from theory, to prototype, and eventually to industry to make real impacts.  

Office: Math Tower 1118
Phone:  631-632-7488
http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~zhliu/ 

Alan Tucker

Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D., 1969
Stanford University: Combinatorics

Alan Tucker is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the American Assocation for the Advancement of Science.  He is editor-in-chief of Applied Mathematical Letters and author of the textbook Applied Combinatorics, now in its 6th edition. Alan started his career at Stony Brook doing research in graph theory and combinatorial algorithms. Increasingly he  became more engaged in  mathematics education. He directed  large regional and national NSF initiatives to improve collegiate and K-12 mathematics instruction.  He was the lead author of four influential reports from the Mathematical Association of America, including  The Mathematical Education of Teachers (2001).  

Office: Physics A137
Phone: 631-632-8365  
http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~tucker/homepage.html