Curriculum Vitae
Appointments, education, honors, service, and skills. Publications and funding are on their own pages; the complete record, including teaching history and professional development, is in the PDF.
Academic appointments
Aug 2025 – present
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science (Tenure-Track)
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Delaware State University
Aug 2022 – Jul 2025
Assistant Professor of Data Science
School of Science and Mathematics, Jacksonville University
Jan 2022 – Jul 2022
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia
Epidemiological modeling for CDC contracted research
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Intracranial EEG and high frequency oscillations
Aug 2014 – Dec 2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
Aug 2012 – Aug 2013
Lecturer of Mathematics and Statistics
Al Neelain University and Academy of Engineering and Medical Sciences, Khartoum, Sudan
Education
2020
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics
Auburn University
Dissertation: Dynamical Behavior of Nonautonomous and Stochastic HBV Infection Model
2014
Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematics
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
2012
M.Sc., Applied Mathematics
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Senegal
2009
B.Sc., Mathematics (Honors)
Al Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan
Honors and fellowships
2019 – 2020
Excellence in Teaching Award
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
2014 – 2020
Graduate Teaching Assistantship
Auburn University
2013 – 2014
Pre-Ph.D. Fellowship in Mathematics
ICTP, Trieste, Italy
2011 – 2012
Master's Scholarship in Applied Mathematics
AIMS, Senegal
2004 – 2009
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award
Al Neelain University
Academic service
2026
Faculty Mentor, Delaware INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Delaware State University
2024 – 2025
Member, Planning and Budget Committee
Jacksonville University
2023 – 2024
Member, Artificial Intelligence Taskforce Committee
Jacksonville University
2022 – 2025
Assessment Coordinator, Data Science Programs
Jacksonville University
2022 – 2024
Faculty search committees (five)
Jacksonville University
2018
Organizing Committee, 52nd Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference
Auburn University
Memberships: American Epilepsy Society; American Mathematical Society.
Technical skills
- Modeling: ODE, PDE, SDE, dynamical systems, optimal control
- Statistics: regression, survival and time series analysis, Bayesian inference, circular statistics
- Machine learning: supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, model validation
- Languages and software: Python (NumPy, SciPy, pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow), R, Julia, MATLAB, Mathematica, SAS, C++, SQL