New Faculty in the School of Science

2003

Daniel Aliaga
Assistant professor
Department of Computer Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
E-mail: aliaga@cs.purdue.edu
Research interests: Computer graphics, virtual reality, modeling and rendering large realistic 3D environments for educational, business and gaming applications

Matthew Huber
Assistant professor
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
E-mail: huberm@purdue.edu
Research interests: Past, present and future of climate; how climate changes have impacted life in the past and what happens next

Matthew Jones
Assistant professor
Department of Physics
Degree: Ph.D., Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
E-mail: jones105@purdue.edu
Research interests: Experimental high energy physics

Daisuke Kihara
Assistant professor
Department of Biological Sciences/Computer Sciences
Degree: Kyoto University, Japan
E-mail: dkihara@cs.purdue.edu
Research interests: Bioinformatics; protein structure prediction/analysis; genome sequence analysis; comparative genomics; evolution

Sonia Lasher-Trapp
Assistant professor
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
E-mail: slasher@purdue.edu
Research interests: Cloud microphysical processes

Mihails Levins
Assistant professor
Department of Statistics
Degree: Ph.D., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
E-mail: mlevins@stat.purdue.edu
Research interests: Nonparametric regression and function estimation; also statistical issues in marketing and finance

Ninghui Li
Assistant professor
Department of Computer Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., New York University
E-mail: ninghui@cs.purdue.edu
Research interests: Computer security and applied cryptography

Matthew Lister
Assistant professor
Department of Physics
Degree: Ph.D, Boston University
E-mail: mlister@physics.purdue.edu
Research interests: Understanding the physics of extremely large and powerful jets of plasma that are powered by massive black holes residing at the centers of distant galaxies

Maureen McCann
Associate professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
E-mail: mmccann@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu
Research interests: Plant extracellular matrix and cell differentiation

Daniel Suter
Assistant professor of biological sciences
Department of Biological Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., University of Zurich
E-mail: dsuter@purdue.edu
Research interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuronal growth cone motility and axon guidance; live cell imaging, advanced light microscopy techniques, cell adhesion, cytoskeletal dynamics

Robert Trapp
Associate professor
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science
Degree: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
E-mail: jtrapp@purdue.edu
Research interests: Dynamics and observations of mesoscale convective systems, severe thunderstorms, and tornadoes; mesoscale modeling and predictability

Jim-Kang Yu
Associate professor
Department of Mathematics
Degree: Ph.D., Harvard University
E-mail: jyu@math.purdue.edu
Research interests: Number theory and representation theory