School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NS&M) houses six departments, each with graduate programs: Biological Sciences (MS, PhD); Chemistry and Biochemistry (MS, PhD); Geosciences (MS, PhD); Mathematical Sciences, emphasizing Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Actuarial Science (MS, PhD); Physics (MS, PhD); and Science and Mathematics Education (Master of Arts in Teaching). In addition, there are three interdisciplinary degrees offered: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (MS) and Geospatial Information Sciences (MS, PhD). Each program is relatively small and thus able to provide excellent graduate student - faculty contact, while maintaining a strong research program. Increasingly, departments interact with each other in research, allowing interdisciplinary efforts to flourish. A number of well-funded Research Centers and Institutes are also housed in NS&M; these allow graduate students to approach real world, cutting edge research problems while working side by side with professional research staff and internationally recognized faculty. They are: the Center for Applied Biology; the Center for Lithospheric Studies; the UT Dallas NanoTech Institute; the Center for Quantum Electronics; and the Center for Space Sciences.
Degrees Offered
Faculty
Professors: Phillip C. Anderson, Zalman I. Balanov, Kenneth J. Balkus Jr., Ray H. Baughman, Swati Biswas, Lunjin Chen, Min Chen, Pankaj K. Choudhary, Gerardo Cisneros, Baris Coskunuzer, Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, Vladimir Dragovic, Rockford K. Draper, Shengwang Du, Sam Efromovich, John P. Ferraris, Yulia Gel, Robert Glosser, Matthew J. Goeckner, Juan E. González, Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, Wieslaw Krawcewicz, David J. Lary, Mark Lee, Xinchou Lou, David Lumley, Roger Malina, Anton V. Malko, Susan E. Minkoff, Inga H. Musselman, Bruce M. Novak, L. Felipe Pereira, Dmitry Rachinskiy, Viswanath Ramakrishna, Lawrence J. Reitzer, A. Dean Sherry, Stephen Spiro, Mihaela C. Stefan, Robert J. Stern, Janos Turi, Robert M. Wallace, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Chuanwei Zhang, Li Zhang, Michael Qiwei Zhang, Jie Zheng, John Zweck
Associate Professors: Jung-Mo Ahn, Maxim Arnold, Michael C. Biewer, Thomas H. Brikowski, Yan Cao, Sheena D'Arcy, Fabiano Da Silveira Rodrigues, Jeff L. DeJong, Nikki Delk, Gregg R. Dieckmann, Sheel Dodani, Heng Du, Yuri Gartstein, Jeremiah J. Gassensmith, Warren J. Goux, Liang Hong, Michael Kesden, Tae Hoon Kim, Lindsay J. King, Yifei Lou, Lloyd Lumata, Bing Lv, Oleg Makarenkov, Gabriele Meloni, Faruck Morcos, Steven O. Nielsen, Tomoki Ohsawa, Kelli Palmer, Paul Pantano, John W. Sibert IV, Jason D. Slinker, Ronald A. Smaldone, Anh Tran, Mary L. Urquhart, Duane D. Winkler, Zhenyu Xuan, Fan Zhang, Hejun Zhu
Assistant Professors: Carlos Arreche, Sy Han (Steven) Chiou, Ronan Conlon, Nicole De Nisco, Nikki Delk, Nicholas Dillon, Purna Joshi, Michael Kolodrubetz, Jiyong Lee, Qiwei Li, Stephen McKeown, Jyoti Misra, Kaloyan Penev, Darshan Sapkota, Xiaoyan Shi, Chuan-Fa Tang, Nathan Williams, Yunan Wu
Clinical Professors: Natalia Humphreys, David Murchison
Clinical Associate Professor: Mohammad Akbar
Clinical Assistant Professor: Wenyi (Roy) Lu
Research Professors: John W. Geissman, Roderick A. Heelis
Research Assistant Professors: Lan Guo, Li Liu
Senior Lecturers: Brady McCary, Wen-Ho Yu
Master Teachers: Katherine (Katie) Donaldson, Floyd Dorsey, Denise Gregory, Pamela (Pam) Kirkland, Amin Lalani, James (Jim) McConnell, Megan (Kate) York
Professors Emeriti: Larry P. Ammann, Hans Bremer, Lee A. Bulla, Richard A. Caldwell, Austin J. Cunningham, David E. Dunn, Frederick Fifer, Donald M. Gray, Walter Heikkila, M. Ali Hooshyar, Joseph M. Izen, Cynthia Ledbetter, George A. McMechan, Lynn A. Melton, Richard M. Mitterer, Patrick Odell, Emile A. Pessagno Jr., Dean C. Presnall, Myron B. Salamon, Brian A. Tinsley, John W. Van Ness
Associate Professors Emeriti: Gail A. M. Breen, Dennis L. Miller
UT Dallas Affiliated Faculty: Hervé Abdi, Alain Bensoussan, Leonidas Bleris, Yves J. Chabal, Kyeongjae (KJ) Cho, Sheena D'Arcy, John P. Ferraris, Lev D. Gelb, Heather Hayenga, Julia W. P. Hsu, Stefano Leonardi, Stephen D. Levene, Faruck Morcos, Lawrence J. Overzet, Manuel Quevedo-Lopez, A. Dean Sherry, Lucien (Tres) Thompson, Mary L. Urquhart, Walter E. Voit, Amy V. Walker, Zhenyu Xuan, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Michael Qiwei Zhang
Professors of Instruction: Anatoly Eydelzon, Manjula Foley, Bentley T. Garrett, Yuly Koshevnik, Paul Mac Alevey, Scott A. Rippel, Amandeep Sra, Uma Srikanth
Associate Professors of Instruction: Mohammad Ahsan, Kelly Aman, Mehmet Candas, Sergio Cortes, Malgorzata Dabkowska, Rabin Dahal, Sandhya R. Gavva, William R. Griffin, Vinita Hajeri, Emily Hennessy, Yu Huang, Changsong Li, Wen-Ju Lin, Derege Mussa, My Linh Nguyen, Jigarkumar Patel, Elizabeth Pickett, Ignacio Pujana, Yanping Qin, Ilya Sapozhnikov, Kuei Sun, Julie Sutton, Tristan Whalen
Assistant Professors of Instruction: Anani Komla Adabrah, Iris Alvarado, Hui Ding, Adannah Duruoha, Kemelli Estacio-Hiroms, Huizhen Guo, Joselle Kehoe, Amena Khan, Ida Klang, Runzhou Liu, Meenakshi Maitra, Neha Makhijani, Irina Martynova, Caitlin Maynard, Iti Mehta, Diarisoa Mihaja Rakotomalala, Ramesh Padmanabhan, Jing Pan, Nimanka Panapitiya, Ajaya Paudel, Mortaza Pirouz, Ruben D. Ramirez, Eva Sadat, Lamya Saleh, Subha Sarcar, Nasrin Sultana, Stephanie Taylor, Kristen Wetzler, Michelle Wilson, Zhuoru Wu