The Mathematics and Computer Science faculty have received research grants from prestigious agencies including NSF, DOJ and NIJ. They have brought over $1, 000,000 grant funds to sponsor the research projects below. Faculty, students and community of practice leaders who are interested in related research are encouraged to contact the Chair of the Department, Prof. Douglas Salane, and individual faculty members. To view a full list of our faculty and their expertise click here.
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Articles
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- 50 Years of Pascal
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- 2 Win Abel Prize for Work That Bridged Math and Computer Science
- Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem
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2020
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- An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries
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2019
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- Weighing alternatives to the algebra-calculus path
- The Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting Into Class
- Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern
- Why Mathematicians Hate That Viral Equation
- The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet
2018
- Online Courses Are Harming the Students Who Need the Most Help
- The Misguided Drive to Measure 'Learning Outcomes'
2017
- Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
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- Who Invented 'Zero'?
- Ending the Curse of Remedial Math
- As Coding Boot Camps Closes, the Field Faces a Reality Check
- Yellow-Light Crusader Fined for Doing Math Without a License
- Fending Off Math Anxiety
- No Such Thing as a Math Person
2016
- Times I Have Actually Used Math Since High School
- Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve
- Do You Believe in God, or Is That a Software Glitch?
2015
- Don't Expect Math to Make Sense
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2013
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- When Numbers Mislead
- Solving Problems for Real World, Using Design
- A Crash Course in Playing the Numbers
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2012
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- A Possible Breakthrough in Explaining a Mathematical Riddle
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2011
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- Vocationalism, Academic Freedom and Tenure
- Change We Can Believe In
- What I Learned at School
- One Math Museum, Many Variables
- Your So-Called Education
- In Honor of Teachers
2010
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- The Pen That Never Forgets
- The Hilbert Hotel
- On Pi Day, one number 'reeks of mystery'
- Division and its Discontents
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- Square Dancing
- Finding Your Roots
- Mathematics and Roots
- Power Tools
- From Fish to Infinity
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- Teachers Always Show Up
- More on the Lottery: Numerology and Randomness
2009
- A Math Paradox: The Widening Gap Between High School and College Math
- Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems
- Teach Your Teachers Well
- Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them
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- Mammogram Math
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Research Title |
Sponsor |
PI Faculty |
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Towards a Cellphone Infrastructure for Harvesting Dynamic Interaction Network Data |
NSF |
Bilal Khan |
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I-Corps: Infrastructure-free Security Monitoring and Tracking for Wireless Target (iSMoWT) |
NSF |
Ping Ji |
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Collaborative Research: Applying Behavioral-Ecological Network Models to Enhance Distributed Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio |
NSF |
Bilal Khan |
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Assessing and Enhancing the Utility of National Incident-Based Crime Reporting System (NIBRS) Data |
DOJ & NIJ |
Douglas Salane |
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Pompeiu Problems and Discrete Groups |
PSC CUNY |
Michael Puls |
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Adaptive Control of a Class of First-Order, Multiple-State Regime-Switching Systems with Binary-Valued Observation and fixed thresholds |
PSC CUNY |
Shaobai Kan |
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Pompeiu Problems and Discrete Groups |
PSC CUNY |
Michael Puls |
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Activity Annotation Using Microsoft Kinect |
PSC CUNY |
Hunter Johnson |
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Malware Evolution |
PSC CUNY |
Bilal Khan |
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Adaptive Tracking Control of Regime-Switching Systems with Quantized Output Observations |
PSC CUNY |
Shaobai Kan |
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Merging from a Geodesic Point of View |
PSC CUNY |
Konstantinos Georgatos |
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Real Time Intrusion Detection Based on Logs of Networks Elements |
PSC CUNY |
Ping Ji |
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Recursive projection algorithm on FIR system identification with regime switching and binary-valued observations |
PSC CUNY |
Shaobai Kan |
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Epistemic Conditional Logic |
PSC CUNY |
Konstantinos Georgatos |
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Addressing Hepatitis C and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Current and Future Epidemics |
NYU |
Bilal Khan |
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Injection Risks Networks in Rural Puerto Rico |
University of Nebraska - Lincoln |
Bilal Khan |
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OAR Seed Money Program 2015 |
OAR |
Aftab Ahmad |