Mathematical and Statistical Modeling
![Math equations](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/webp_scaled/public/news/image/university-of-minnesota-mathematics-ranks-fourth-in-the-world-cse_content_341128.jpg.webp?itok=zKmOlYDZ)
Optimization and statistics play a critical role in extracting information from large data.
Affiliated Faculty
![Abraham Ayebo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Abraham%20Ayebo-205_1.jpg.webp?itok=2YaXqr7W)
Associate Professor, Center for Learning Innovation, University of Minnesota Rochester
![Randal J. Barnes](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/BarnesRandal.jpg.webp?itok=pmsCt11i)
Associate Professor and Mental Health Advocate, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
![Martina Cardone](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/martina%20cardone.jpg.webp?itok=9I4Mcz8t)
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Seongjin Choi](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/sjchoi.jpeg.webp?itok=K8ozIRj3)
Assistant Professor (beginnning January 2024), Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
![Ying Cui headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Ying-Cui.jpeg.webp?itok=SalTZKhF)
![Prodromos Daoutidis](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/prodromos%20200-2_0.jpg.webp?itok=crwRbVn7)
College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor and Executive Officer, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
![K dos Santos](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/K%20dos%20Santos_0.jpeg.webp?itok=svzC0LVC)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
![Ryan Elliott](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Elliotresized.jpg.webp?itok=0gIwhFKL)
Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Aerospace Engineering Mechanics
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![Ge Chang headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Ge_Chang_headshot.jpeg.webp?itok=5lLbdE1B)
![Gregory Handy](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Gregory%20Handy.jpeg.webp?itok=WGUE76PT)
![Christy Haynes](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/ChristyHaynes%202023_2.jpg.webp?itok=JQCSeXEy)
Department Head, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemistry
![Qizhi He](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/IMG-0044%20%281%29_0.jpeg.webp?itok=zCFPwRMy)
![Alon Herschhorn](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Alon%20Herschhorn.png.webp?itok=4XblvnKH)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Medical School
![Mingyi Hong](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Mingyi%20Hong_1.jpg.webp?itok=GeO7dtlN)
![Krishnamurthy Iyer headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/00100sPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20191226122444242_COVER-1.jpeg.webp?itok=q7R6Fw_n)
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
![Richard D. James headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Jamesresized_1.jpeg.webp?itok=s1J5DgZb)
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Mechanics
![Ravi Janardan](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Janardan_Ravi_headshot_thumb.jpg.webp?itok=FhcID_0k)
![Steven Koester](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Steve%20Koester_2.jpg.webp?itok=o-C1gxDZ)
Russell J. Penrose Professor in Nanotechnology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Erich Kummerfeld](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Erich%20Kummerfeld.jpg.webp?itok=r8Tfgx4E)
![Yulong Lu](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yulong%20Lu.jpeg.webp?itok=iP8hNK8l)
![Mitchell Luskin headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/mitch-luskin_0_0.png.webp?itok=in5XfU58)
![Vuk Mandic](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Vuk_2019_1%20crop_0.jpeg.webp?itok=5TUdVgqK)
![Soheil Mohajer headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Soheil%20Mohajer.jpeg.webp?itok=r3WWiCIG)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Peter Olver](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/peter_olver%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=wXEU3o9_)
![Jean Philippe Richard headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/DRG_3299_ISyE-8-2018.jpeg.webp?itok=qM7iH6ZR)
Professor — ISyE; Graph/Network/Tensor Analysis, Optimization, Logistics and Supply Chain
![Murti Salapaka headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Murti%20Salapaka.jpeg.webp?itok=pjzLlRxh)
Professor, Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![J. Ilya Siepmann](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/SiepmannJ_IljaNP_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=pO1suWjx)
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry
![Ju Sun](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Sun_Ju_headshot_thumb.jpg.webp?itok=3WaKD8Qv)
![Yogatheesan Varatharajah](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yogatheesan%20Varatharajah.jpeg.webp?itok=lsnUAn1C)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![Suo Yang headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yang_200x300_0.jpg.webp?itok=RrjLYP6n)
Richard and Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
![Qi Zhang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Zhang_Photo.jpeg.webp?itok=H393leAc)
![di zhu headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/IMG_1129%202.jpeg.webp?itok=KJQqXtNZ)
Labs and selected projects
- Computational Reactive Flow & Energy Lab (CRFEL) - L101
- Decision Discovery and Optimization Lab
- DMREF: The Search for Novel Superconductors in Moire Flat Bands
- Group of Learning, Optimization, Vision, healthcarE and X (GLOVEX)
- HE Research Group — Computational and Data-Driven Mechanics
- Information Processing Group
- Richard D. James Research Group
- Salapaka Lab (Nanodynamics)