People Group Archives: Faculty

Dr. Christian Kümmerle’s research interests are in the mathematical foundations of machine learning and the development and analysis of efficient algorithms for large scale data analysis. His research leverages continuous optimization to address computational and statistical challenges arising from data models involving graph, sparsity and low-rank structures, leading to scalable algorithms with provable guarantees. Dr. […]

Florencio “Eloy” Hernandez serves as Director, guiding the transition to merge UCF’s Mathematics and Statistics and Data Science into a single school. This marks a significant step forward in unifying and advancing UCF’s quantitative sciences. Hernandez obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela) in collaboration with L’Université Franche Comté (France) […]

Wissam Ghantous is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Mathematics at the University of Central Florida, as well as a member of UCF’s Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster. He previously served as a postdoctoral researcher at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), following the completion of his PhD at the University of Oxford in 2023. Dr. Ghantous’ […]