Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Keith M. Agre, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1995, Concordia College at Moorhead; M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2000, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Specialty: Hyperbolic partial differential equations
E-Mail: kmagre@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/kmagre
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 224
Telephone: (320) 308-2987

Mohammed Bahauddin, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.Sc. 1953, Osmania University; M.Sc. 1957, Karachi University; M.S. 1965, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Ph.D. 1969, New Mexico State University

Specialty: Topology, partial differential equations, modeling
E-Mail: baha@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/mbahauddin
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 155
Telephone: (320) 308-2191

Wayne A. Braith

Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1977, M.S. 1985, St. Cloud State University

Specialty: Imaging engineering
E-Mail: wabraith@stcloudstate.edu
Office: CH 224D
Telephone: (320) 308-4282 or (320) 308-3840

William B. Branson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1990, University of California-Berkeley; Ph.D. 2000, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Specialty: Differential equations
E-Mail: wbbranson@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/wbbranson
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 228
Telephone: (320) 308-5694

Melissa B. Hanzsek Brill, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Providence College; M.A., University of Georgia; Ph.D., University of Georgia

Specialty: Elementary mathematics education
E-Mail: mbhanzsek@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 240
Telephone: (320) 308-2144

Gary D. Buls, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1979, Luther College; M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1986, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

Specialty: Discrete computational structures, numerical analysis
E-Mail: gdbuls@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/gdbuls
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 240
Telephone: (320) 308-2087

Shirley R. Buls, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1978, M.S. 1982, Southern Oregon College; Ph.D. 1987, Washington State University

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: srbuls@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/srbuls
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 243
Telephone: (320) 308-2187

Dale R. Buske, Ph.D. (Chair)

Professor of Mathematics
B.Math 1991, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Ph.D. 1997, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

Specialty: Operator algebras
E-Mail: drbuske@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/drbuske
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 139D
Telephone: (320) 308-3002

Ralph W. Carr, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1968, Carleton College; Ph.D. 1977, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Specialty: Differential and integral equations
E-Mail: rwcarr@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/rwcarr
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 234
Telephone: (320) 308-2274

Jeff Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1989, N. Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan); M.S. 1993, Ph.D. 1996, Yale University

Specialty: Number theory, automorphic forms, history of math, p-adic groups
E-Mail: jjchen@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/jjchen
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 226
Telephone: (320) 308-4260

Janis M. Cimperman

Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1969, M.S. 1974, St. Cloud State University

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: jmcimperman@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 232
Telephone: (320) 308-2186

Nick C. Fiala, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1996, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2002, Ohio State University

Specialty: Algebraic combinatorics
E-Mail: ncfiala@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 231
Telephone: (320) 308-2988

Sonja Goerdt

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1993, College of St. Scholastica; M.S. 2003, St. Cloud State University; Ph.D. (ABD), University of Minnesota

Specialty: Mathematics Education
E-Mail: slgoerdt@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 227
Telephone: (320) 308-2253

Susan K. Haller, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1984, Minnesota State University Moorhead; M.S. 1990, St. Cloud State University; Ph.D. 1997, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Specialty: Mathematics education
E-Mail: skhaller@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 242
Telephone: (320) 308-4836

Stephanie J. Houdek

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: sjhoudek@stcloudstate.edu
Office: CH 224B
Telephone: (320) 308-2091

Danrun Huang, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1982, M.S. 1984, East China Normal University; Ph.D. 1992, University of Maryland-College Park

Specialty: Ergodic theory, functional analysis, matrix theory,symbolic dynamics, topological dynamics
E-Mail: dhuang@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/dhuang
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 144
Telephone: (320) 308-2237

Miles Hubbard

Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1980, M.S. 1986, St. Cloud State University

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: mhubbard@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 230
Telephone: (320) 308-4734

Sandra G. Johnson

Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1964, M.Ed. 1970, University of North Dakota

Specialty: Assessment
E-Mail: sgjohnson@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 260
Telephone: (320) 308-2109

Ravindra N. Kalia, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.Sc. 1959, M.Sc. 1962, M.Sc. 1963, Ph.D. 1972, University of Lucknow (India)

Specialty: Fractional calculus, integral transforms, group theory
E-Mail: rnkalia@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 252
Telephone: (320) 308-2079

Sandra Z. Keith, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
A.B. 1966, Brown University; M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1971, University of Pennsylvania

Specialty: Algebra, assessment, writing
E-Mail: szkeith@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/szkeith
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 157
Telephone: (320) 308-2282

Robert J. Latterell

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1968, St. John’s University; M.A. 1974, St. Cloud State University

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: rjlatterell@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 233
Telephone: (320) 308-2144

Scott MacLeod

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics
Masters degree in mathematics from Bemidji State University

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: samacleod@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 255

Telephone: (320) 308-4821

Bishnu Naraine, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1976, University of Guyana; M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1989, Ohio State University

Specialty: Teacher education
E-Mail: bnaraine@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 143

Telephone: (320) 308-2270

David R. Nass

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: drnass@stcloudstate.edu
Office: CH 224A
Telephone: (320) 308-2255 or (320) 308-3840

Megan M. Nielsen

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1999, College of St. Catherine; M.ED. 2004, St. Mary’s University

Specialty: Not Available
E-Mail: mmnielsen@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 251
Telephone: (320) 308-2256 or 308-3840

Brian Nyholm

Master's in Education-Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Superior

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: brnyholm@stcloudstate.edu
Office: CH 224B
Telephone: (320) 308-3840 or 308-2091

Virgil D. Plath

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: vdplath@stcloudstate.edu
Office: CH 224A
Telephone: (320) 308-3840 or 308 - 2255

Daniel J. Scully, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1975, Saint John’s University; M.A. 1983, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Ph.D. 1988, Utah State University

Specialty: Linear algebra, matrix theory, discrete mathematics
E-Mail: djscully@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 236
Telephone: (320) 308-6740

Carol M. Theisen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1976, College of Saint Benedict; Ph.D. 1983, Iowa State University

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: cmtheisen@stcloudstate.edu
Office:CH 224E
Telephone: (320) 308-6695 or 308- 3840

Shawn M. Triplett

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1989, M.S. 1991, ABD D.A. 2000, Idaho State University

Specialty: Not available
E-Mail: smtriplett@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 229
Telephone: (320) 308-5964

Roozbeh Vakil, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1978, Pars College (Iran); M.S. 1988, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Ph.D. 1992, Kansas State University

Specialty: Mathematics education
E-Mail: rvakil@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 153
Telephone: (320) 308-4964

Stephen M. Walk, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.A. 1992, M.A. 1994, University of Northern Iowa; M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 1999, University of Notre Dame

Specialty: Mathematical logic (computability theory)
E-Mail: smwalk@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/smwalk
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 152
Telephone: (320) 308-6085

Peiyi Zhao, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics
B.S. 1982, Beijing Normal University; M.S. 1984, Capital Normal University; Ph.D. 1990, University of Iowa

Specialty: Geometry, graph theory, topology
E-Mail: pzhao@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 156
Telephone: (320) 308-2148

Staff

Jane J. Spaude

Office Manager

E-mail: jjspaude@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Engineering and Computing Center 139
Telephone: (320) 308-3001

	A-Z Index \| News \| Library \| Technology \| Support St. Cloud State \| St. Cloud State University Home Admissions Academics Student Life About SCSU Athletics Alumni & Friends Home Academic Information and Courses Prospective and Current Students Activities and Organizations Tutoring FAQ Faculty and Staff Employment Opportunities Contact Us Faculty and Staff Faculty Keith M. Agre, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1995, Concordia College at Moorhead; M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2000, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Specialty: Hyperbolic partial differential equations E-Mail: kmagre@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/kmagre Office: Engineering and Computing Center 224 Telephone: (320) 308-2987 Mohammed Bahauddin, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.Sc. 1953, Osmania University; M.Sc. 1957, Karachi University; M.S. 1965, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Ph.D. 1969, New Mexico State University Specialty: Topology, partial differential equations, modeling E-Mail: baha@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/mbahauddin Office: Engineering and Computing Center 155 Telephone: (320) 308-2191 Wayne A. Braith Associate Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1977, M.S. 1985, St. Cloud State University Specialty: Imaging engineering E-Mail: wabraith@stcloudstate.edu Office: CH 224D Telephone: (320) 308-4282 or (320) 308-3840 William B. Branson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1990, University of California-Berkeley; Ph.D. 2000, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Specialty: Differential equations E-Mail: wbbranson@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/wbbranson Office: Engineering and Computing Center 228 Telephone: (320) 308-5694 Melissa B. Hanzsek Brill, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor of Mathematics B.A., Providence College; M.A., University of Georgia; Ph.D., University of Georgia Specialty: Elementary mathematics education E-Mail: mbhanzsek@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 240 Telephone: (320) 308-2144 Gary D. Buls, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1979, Luther College; M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1986, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Specialty: Discrete computational structures, numerical analysis E-Mail: gdbuls@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/gdbuls Office: Engineering and Computing Center 240 Telephone: (320) 308-2087 Shirley R. Buls, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1978, M.S. 1982, Southern Oregon College; Ph.D. 1987, Washington State University Specialty: Not available E-Mail: srbuls@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/srbuls Office: Engineering and Computing Center 243 Telephone: (320) 308-2187 Dale R. Buske, Ph.D. (Chair) Professor of Mathematics B.Math 1991, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Ph.D. 1997, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Specialty: Operator algebras E-Mail: drbuske@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/drbuske Office: Engineering and Computing Center 139D Telephone: (320) 308-3002 Ralph W. Carr, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1968, Carleton College; Ph.D. 1977, University of Wisconsin-Madison Specialty: Differential and integral equations E-Mail: rwcarr@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/rwcarr Office: Engineering and Computing Center 234 Telephone: (320) 308-2274 Jeff Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1989, N. Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan); M.S. 1993, Ph.D. 1996, Yale University Specialty: Number theory, automorphic forms, history of math, p-adic groups E-Mail: jjchen@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/jjchen Office: Engineering and Computing Center 226 Telephone: (320) 308-4260 Janis M. Cimperman Associate Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1969, M.S. 1974, St. Cloud State University Specialty: Not available E-Mail: jmcimperman@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 232 Telephone: (320) 308-2186 Nick C. Fiala, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1996, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2002, Ohio State University Specialty: Algebraic combinatorics E-Mail: ncfiala@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 231 Telephone: (320) 308-2988 Sonja Goerdt Assistant Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1993, College of St. Scholastica; M.S. 2003, St. Cloud State University; Ph.D. (ABD), University of Minnesota Specialty: Mathematics Education E-Mail: slgoerdt@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 227 Telephone: (320) 308-2253 Susan K. Haller, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1984, Minnesota State University Moorhead; M.S. 1990, St. Cloud State University; Ph.D. 1997, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Specialty: Mathematics education E-Mail: skhaller@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 242 Telephone: (320) 308-4836 Stephanie J. Houdek Specialty: Not available E-Mail: sjhoudek@stcloudstate.edu Office: CH 224B Telephone: (320) 308-2091 Danrun Huang, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1982, M.S. 1984, East China Normal University; Ph.D. 1992, University of Maryland-College Park Specialty: Ergodic theory, functional analysis, matrix theory,symbolic dynamics, topological dynamics E-Mail: dhuang@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/dhuang Office: Engineering and Computing Center 144 Telephone: (320) 308-2237 Miles Hubbard Associate Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1980, M.S. 1986, St. Cloud State University Specialty: Not available E-Mail: mhubbard@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 230 Telephone: (320) 308-4734 Sandra G. Johnson Associate Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1964, M.Ed. 1970, University of North Dakota Specialty: Assessment E-Mail: sgjohnson@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 260 Telephone: (320) 308-2109 Ravindra N. Kalia, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.Sc. 1959, M.Sc. 1962, M.Sc. 1963, Ph.D. 1972, University of Lucknow (India) Specialty: Fractional calculus, integral transforms, group theory E-Mail: rnkalia@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 252 Telephone: (320) 308-2079 Sandra Z. Keith, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics A.B. 1966, Brown University; M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1971, University of Pennsylvania Specialty: Algebra, assessment, writing E-Mail: szkeith@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/szkeith Office: Engineering and Computing Center 157 Telephone: (320) 308-2282 Robert J. Latterell Adjunct Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1968, St. John’s University; M.A. 1974, St. Cloud State University Specialty: Not available E-Mail: rjlatterell@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 233 Telephone: (320) 308-2144 Scott MacLeod Adjunct Professor of Mathematics Masters degree in mathematics from Bemidji State University Specialty: Not available E-Mail: samacleod@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 255 Telephone: (320) 308-4821 Bishnu Naraine, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1976, University of Guyana; M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1989, Ohio State University Specialty: Teacher education E-Mail: bnaraine@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 143 Telephone: (320) 308-2270 David R. Nass Adjunct Professor of Mathematics Specialty: Not available E-Mail: drnass@stcloudstate.edu Office: CH 224A Telephone: (320) 308-2255 or (320) 308-3840 Megan M. Nielsen Adjunct Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1999, College of St. Catherine; M.ED. 2004, St. Mary’s University Specialty: Not Available E-Mail: mmnielsen@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 251 Telephone: (320) 308-2256 or 308-3840 Brian Nyholm Master's in Education-Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Superior Specialty: Not available E-Mail: brnyholm@stcloudstate.edu Office: CH 224B Telephone: (320) 308-3840 or 308-2091 Virgil D. Plath Adjunct Professor of Mathematics Specialty: Not available E-Mail: vdplath@stcloudstate.edu Office: CH 224A Telephone: (320) 308-3840 or 308 - 2255 Daniel J. Scully, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1975, Saint John’s University; M.A. 1983, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Ph.D. 1988, Utah State University Specialty: Linear algebra, matrix theory, discrete mathematics E-Mail: djscully@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 236 Telephone: (320) 308-6740 Carol M. Theisen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1976, College of Saint Benedict; Ph.D. 1983, Iowa State University Specialty: Not available E-Mail: cmtheisen@stcloudstate.edu Office:CH 224E Telephone: (320) 308-6695 or 308- 3840 Shawn M. Triplett Adjunct Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1989, M.S. 1991, ABD D.A. 2000, Idaho State University Specialty: Not available E-Mail: smtriplett@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 229 Telephone: (320) 308-5964 Roozbeh Vakil, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1978, Pars College (Iran); M.S. 1988, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Ph.D. 1992, Kansas State University Specialty: Mathematics education E-Mail: rvakil@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 153 Telephone: (320) 308-4964 Stephen M. Walk, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics B.A. 1992, M.A. 1994, University of Northern Iowa; M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 1999, University of Notre Dame Specialty: Mathematical logic (computability theory) E-Mail: smwalk@stcloudstate.edu Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/smwalk Office: Engineering and Computing Center 152 Telephone: (320) 308-6085 Peiyi Zhao, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics B.S. 1982, Beijing Normal University; M.S. 1984, Capital Normal University; Ph.D. 1990, University of Iowa Specialty: Geometry, graph theory, topology E-Mail: pzhao@stcloudstate.edu Office: Engineering and Computing Center 156 Telephone: (320) 308-2148 Staff Jane J. 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