Faculty & Staff

Belmasrour Dr. Rachid Belmasrour
Assistant Professor
Park Campus
New Science 323
(504) 286-5116

 

Dr. Belmasrour holds a Ph.D. from University of New Orleans in Mathematics, and he obtained his M.S degree in Mathematical Informatics from University of Versailles Saint Quentin, France. Dr. Belmasrour conducted research about Cotton Fiber length Distribution at the United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Cotton Structure and Quality.

 

Research interests: Statistical Computing, Statistical Consulting, Structure Equation Modeling, Partial Least Square, etc.

Chen

Dr. Zheng Chen

Assistant Professor

Park Campus

New Science 307

(504) 286-5097

Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in applied and computational Mathematics from Florida State University. The title of his dissertation: Stochastic Stokes equations and the ANOVA expansion applied to efficient sampling methods for parameter dependent nonlinear PDEs.

Research interests: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation, and Finite Element Methods

Heath

Dr. Penney Heath

Associate Professor

Park Campus

New Science 307

(504) 286-5149

Dr. Heath has a Master’s in Mathematics and a Ph. D. in Mathematics Education from the University of New Orleans.  Her areas of expertise include integrating teaching technology and teaching methodologies recommended by the NCTM standards, teaching mathematics to pre-service teachers, and training in-service teachers.  Dr. Heath served as the coordinator of assessment for NCATE and State Accreditations; her work contributed greatly to obtaining both accreditations.  Dr. Heath also completed the curriculum for Mathematics and Mathematics Education for the State Redesign.

Kim

Dr. Heon Kim

Assistant Professor

Park Campus

New Science 323

(504) 286-5146

Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Louisiana State University.  The title of his dissertation is “Sign Ambiguities between Gaussian sums.”

Research interest: Computational Number Theory

Marinov

Dr. Tchavdar Marinov

Assistant Professor

Park Campus

New Science 323

(504) 286-5145

Dr. Marinov received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Bulgarian Academy of Science and University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Master Sciences degrees in Mathematics from University of Sofia and University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Research interests: Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis

Omojola

Dr. Joe Omojola

Professor of Mathematics and Physics

Park Campus

Brown Hall 204

(504) 286-5096

Dr. Omojola received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, and previously served as the Dean of the College of Science as well as the Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Physics. He is the Director of the Enhancement, Enrichment & Excellence in Mathematics and Sciences (E3MaS) grant, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Omojola is also the Campus Coordinator for Louis Stoke-Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-LAMP). He is a founding member of the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in Mathematical Sciences; and for his outstanding mentoring work, Dr. Omojola was awarded the 2006 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. He received the award in 2007 at the White House.

Research Interests: Applied Physics, Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, and Environmental Science

Singleton

Dr. Cynthia Singleton

Associate Professor

Park Campus

New Science 303

(504) 284-5479

Dr. Singleton’s interest is in facilitating effective mathematics multimedia instructions based on students’ disposition and learning styles for this technological world.  She is a member of the National Council of Teaching of Mathematics (NCTM), Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and National Association of Mathematics (NAM).

Tan

Dr. Delin Tan

Park Campus

New Science 323

(504) 286-5147

Dr. Tan holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from State University of New York at Stony Brook and an M.S degree in Computer Science from University of Houston. His Doctoral Dissertation obtained the U.S. national award Sloan fellowship. He published more than a dozen papers in mathematics and computer programming  a book named Introduction to 3D Graphic Simulation Programming in C# in 2010.  Dr. Tan conducted research both in Mathematics theory and computer graphic programming.

Triggs

Ms. Laura Vinnett Triggs

Instructor

Park Campus

New Science 303

(504) 286-5093

Ms. Triggs earned a B. S. from Xavier University of Louisiana, and her M.Ed. from Loyola University New Orleans.