Curriculum Vitae

Positions: 

  • Professor , Department of Mathematics and Statistics,  Florida Atlantic University, 2023 - Present
  • Associate Professor , Department of Mathematics and Statistics,  Florida Atlantic University, 2018 - 2023
  • Assistant Professor , Department of Mathematics and Statistics,  Florida Atlantic University, 2014 - 2018
  • Assistant Professor , Department of Mathematics,  The University of Tulsa, 2011 - 2014
  • John Thompson Research Assistant Professor , Department of Mathematics,  University of Florida, 2008 - 2011
  • Lecturer , Georgia State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2007- 2008

Education:

  • Doctorate of Philosophy, Mathematics; Auburn University, Auburn, AL,  2007
     " A novel finite element discretization of domains with spheroidal geometry"
    Advisor: Prof. Amnon J. Meir
  • Master of Science, Mathematics; Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey,  2001
     "On the convergence and iterates of q-Bernstein polynomials"
    Advisor: Prof. Halil Oruc
  • Bachelor of Science, Mathematics; Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey,1999
     "Shooting Method and Extrapolation for Singular Two-Point Boundary Value Problems"
    Advisor: Prof. Sennur Somali

Research Grants:

  1.  NIH NIGMS,  1R01GM152743-01,    Identifiability investigation of Multi-scale Models of Infectious Diseases, Stanca Ciupe (PI), Nisha Duggal, (co-PI), Necibe Tuncer (co-PI), September 2023 - September 2026.
  2.  NSF Grant, DMS 1951626, Collaborative Research: Modeling the opioid and HIV epidemics  Necibe Tuncer (PI), July 2020 - July 2024.
  3.  NSF Grant , DMS-1917506, Fifth Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics, (CMPD5), 2019 - 2020.
  4.  Society of Mathematical Biology (SMB), Fifth Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics CMPD5, 2020.
  5.   NSF Grant, DMS 1515442, Collaborative Research: Linking Within-Host and Between-Host Infectious Disease Dynamics, Necibe Tuncer (PI), September 2015 - September 2019.
  6.  NSF Grant, DMS 1220342, Avian Flu: Modeling and implications for control, Maia MArtcheva, (PI), Necibe Tuncer (co-PI), September 2012 - September 2016.

Research (with Undergraduates) Grants:

  1. "Drug Resistance Mutations due to HIV Antiviral Treatment," Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry, Florida Atlantic University, $1200, (2024).

  2. "Identifiability Analysis of HIV and Nutrition,'' Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry, Florida Atlantic University, $1200, (2022).

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