Daniel Bernstein is interested in geometric and combinatorial structures that arise in areas of science and engineering including structural rigidity, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics. My non-professional interests include music, powerlifting, mountain biking and the trading card game Magic the Gathering.
Xiang Ji is an assistant professor in the math department at Tulane University. He completed his postdoc training with Marc Suchard at University of California–Los Angeles. He earned a PhD degree in bio-informatics and statistics from North Carolina State University under Jeff Thorne’s direction. He earned his MS degree in material science and engineering at NC State as well. His thesis advisor was John Muth. Before coming to the United States, he earned his BS degrees in physics and economics from Peking University, China.
Travis Miller received his PhD in psychology from the University of California–Riverside in 2020, where he studied personality and daily behavior. He will be teaching undergraduate courses in Experimental Psychology, Introductory Psychology, and Personality and Measurement.
Karen Stirrett earned her degrees in biology (BS) and genetics (PhD) from Wake Forest University and the University of Georgia, respectively. She was trained in the field of molecular genetics with a concentration on the genetics of microorganisms. The knowledge gained during her PhD led to successful postdoctoral research projects at Weill Cornell Medical College and the University of Georgia in drug discovery and development of green technologies, respectively. After nine years and 10 publications in peer-reviewed journals, she left the research world to pursue a career in teaching.
Kalina Mincheva is joining Tulane's mathematics department as an assistant professor. Previously, she was a Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale University. She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University. Her research is in algebraic and tropical geometry.
Julia Sonn is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She also attended graduate school at Tulane University, receiving her PhD in 2016. She has been teaching at Tulane since earning her doctorate and enjoys teaching both majors and non-majors. Her research interests include disease ecology, herpetology, fungal pathogens and conservation.
Hannah Frank earned her PhD in biology (ecology and evolution) at Stanford University in 2017 before conducting postdoctoral work as a Life Sciences Research Foundation fellow in the Pathology department in the Stanford School of Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding the relationship between animals, particularly bats, and infections in an ecological and evolutionary context using a combination of fieldwork and genomic techniques.
