Our People

Board of Directors

Maria Gallego
Director

Marek Wartak
Deputy Director, Education

Manuele Santoprete
Previous Director

Roderick Melnik
Founding Director

Sapna Isotupa
Associate Director

Xu (Sunny) Wang
Deputy Director, Operations and Advancement

Advisory Board

Albert-László Barabási
Northeastern University, Boston

Alan Edelman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Bruce Shapiro
NIH National Cancer Institute Centre for Cancer Research, Frederick

Carlos Garcia-Servera
University of California, Santa Barbara

Shaofan Li
University of California, Berkeley

Research Theme Coordinators

• Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development: Vladimir Kitaev
• Life Sciences, Biotechnology, and Bioinformatics: Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb
• Mechanics and Materials Science: Ian Hamilton
• Complex Systems, Networks, Information Theory and Algorithms: Stephen Perry
• Ecology, Climate, and Environmental Sciences: Steven Roberts
• Operations Research and Decision Science: Marc Kilgour
• Mathematical Models in Finance: Joe Campolieti
• Econometrics and Quantitative Approaches to Economics, Business and Political Science: Wing Chan
• Quantitative Approaches in Social Sciences: Lindie Hanyu Liang
• Human Interface Technology and Design: James Wallace
• Basic Research Incubator: Kaiming Zhao

Members

• Kathie Cameron
• Yuming Chen
• Ross Cressman
• Maria Gallego
• Shohini Ghose
• Angèle Hamel
• Chính T. Hoàng
• Masoud Jelokhani-Niaraki
• Madhu Kalimipalli
• Alexei Kaltchenko
• Angèle Foley
• Y. George Lai
• Lindie Hanyu Liang
• Roman Makarov
• Diano Marrone
• Connell McCluskey
• Roderick Melnik
• Adam Metzler
• Julie Mueller
• Michael Pavlin
• R. Mark Reesor
• Colin Robertson
• Alexei Kaltchenko
• Ian Roderick
• Zilin Wang
• Manuele Santoprete
• Philip Servos
• Ketan Shankardass
• David Soave
• Cristina Stoica
• Xu (Sunny) Wang
• Chester Weatherby
• Eugene Zima 

Associate Members

• Shyam Badu
• Nick Costanzino
• Stephanie Crowe
• Anakkavoor Jagdish
• Jevgenijs Kaupuzs
• Carlos Leon
• Roy Mahapatra
• Nimer Murshid
• Max Paliy
• Sanjay Prabhakar
• Sundeep Singh
• Haijun Tan
• Thoa Thieu
• Anurag Tiwari
• Linxiang Wang
• Bin Wen
• Karl Wouterloot
• Jack Yang

Student Members

• Adrian Adamescu
• Reem Almarashi
• Tina Arabian
• Farah Ateeq
• Mohsen Bahremani
• Konrad Bania
• Manoj Belavadi
• Sia Bhowmick
• Douglas Bowen
• Richard Edward
• Ahmed Mohamed Eid
• Benjamin Friedrich
• Heather Gaebler
• Foad Ghasemi
• Harold Hodgins
• Christopher Hogan
• Majid Hojati
• Igor Ivashev
• Courtney Jones
• Mohammad Mehdi Jourabchi
• Russell Kennedy
• Yara Khalaf
• Muhammad Khan
• Colin Kirst
• Shea Kraemer
• Anisha Kuppa
• Brenda Jerutha Kurorwaho
• Haydn Lawrence
• Sanwei Lu
• Matthew McCreath
• Julia Metelka
• Sara Mitchell-Ewart
• Wisam Mohammed
• Kenneth Onuma
• Divyang Patel
• Katrina Protopapas
• Mohammad Aminur Rahman
• Nicole Ritter
• Kelly Robb
• Md Abdus Sabur
• Carol Salama
• Hina Shaheen
• Mohammad Simjour
• Arthur Situm
• Sara Soldoozy
• Tomendro Subedi
• Yaode Sui
• Emily Sung
• Marzieh Tabefam
• Logan K. Townsend
• Anthony Trinh
• Chelsea Uggenti
• Dan Wang
• Lauren Yee
• Fahimeh Ziaei

Support Staff

Arman AP
Website Coordinator

In Memoriam

David Cai (1963-2017)

Professor Cai served on the Advisory Board of the Institute from its inception. See In Memoriam for David Cai at the SIAM webpage.

David Vaughan (1951-2015)

Professor Vaughan was one of the creators of the institute. He was deputy director, operations and advancement. Read his obituary.

Janis Rimshans (1951-2015)

Professor Rimshans was an associate member of the MS2Discovery Institute. He visited Wilfrid Laurier University and collaborated with the members of the institute on a wide range of scientific topics. Professor Rimshans was a Latvian mathematician and physicist, director of the Liepaja University, director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Information Technology, head of the Mathematical Modeling Hydrodynamics Laboratory in the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences of the University of Latvia. Janis was a wonderful person and a great scientist who is missed by many of us who had an honour and privilege to work with him.