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Mathematics and Data Research Group
Our Research
The modern world is awash with data. Our ability to store, process, interpret and analyze data arising in real-world applications relies on foundational mathematics and mathematical tools. The interaction between mathematics and data is a fruitful and active area of research. Not only does the analysis of data lead to new mathematical questions and problems, novel mathematical techniques - arising often from seemingly unconnected areas - lead to new and powerful tools in data science.
SFU has an active research group in contemporary applied mathematics and data science, encompassing a wide range of expertise and specialities. Our mathematics research includes: foundations of data science, discrete mathematics, optimization, mathematical modelling, compressed sensing and sparse recovery, neural networks and deep learning. We work on applications in computational biology, epidemiology, evolution and genomics, imaging, cognitive science, and develop data science methods for computational science and engineering.
Our group has collaborations with the Departments of Statistics, Biology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Linguistics, Psychology, the School of Computing Science, and with SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences. We also collaborate with other researchers throughout the lower mainland, Canada and internationally.
The Department of Mathematics offers a selection of graduate and undergraduate courses in this area. See below for a list.
People
Faculty
Ben Adcock
Mathematical Data Science, Numerical Analysis, Approximation Theory, Computational Harmonic Analysis
Cedric Chauve
Computational Genomics and Paleogenomics
Caroline Colijn
Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Evolution, Infection and Public Health
Jessica Stockdale
Infectious disease modelling, statistics
Tamon Stephen
Operations Research
Paul Tupper
Infectious Disease Modelling and Estimation, Cognitive Science, Metric Spaces, Phylogenetics
Postdoctoral Fellows & Visitors
- Elisha Are
- Amy Langdon
PhD Graduate Students
- Niloufar Abhari
- Juan Cardenas
- Omid Gheysar Gharamaleki
- Fatih Karaoglanoglu
- Aniket Mane
- Sebastian Moraga
- Nicola Mulberry
- Baraa Orabi
- Yexuan Song
- Kurnia Susvitasari
- Alice Yue
MSc Graduate Students
- Piyush Agarwal
- Saimon Islam