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 The LSU Math Department welcomes its new Assistant Professors: Xingting Wang was an Assistant Professor at Howard University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2014. 

His research interests include Quantum Groups and Mathematical Physics and is funded by a grant of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

 The LSU Math Department welcomes its new Assistant Professors: Manasa Vempati was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech and in Fall 2022, she was on leave as a postdoctoral fellow at ICERM, Brown University. 

She received her Ph.D. in 2021 from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests include harmonic analysis and PDE’s.

The LSU Math Department welcomes its new Assistant Professors: 

Xiaoqi Huang was a Novikov Postdoctoral Fellow at Math Department of University of Maryland. He obtained his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 2021. 

His research interests lie within harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and mathematical physics. 

The LSU Math Department welcomes its new Assistant Professors: Ben Fehrman was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. His research is funded through an EPSRC Early Career Grant. He received his Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Chicago. 

His research interests are in Stochastic partial differential equations and Data analysis/Machine learning.

The LSU Math Department welcomes its new Assistant Professors: Nadia Drenska was a Rufus Isaacs Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. in 2017 from NYU. Her research interests include financial mathematics, optimal control theory, and data science (online machine learning problems).

The LSU Math Department welcomes its new Assistant Professors: Ana Balibanu was a Benjamin Peirce Fellow and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of Chicago, and her research interests are in geometric representation theory.

Michael Malisoff, LSU Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded a 3-year research grant entitled ``Designs and Theory for Interval Contractors and Reference Governors with Aerospace Applications'' from the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The project is collaborative with Laurent Burlion, who is an assistant professor in the Rutgers University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

LSU Professor of Mathematics Arnab Ganguly has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a research project on Learning complex stochastic systems.

LSU Professor of Mathematics Hongchao Zhang has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a research project on Active Set Methods for Large-scale Sparse Nonlinear Optimization. Large-scale nonconvex sparse nonlinear optimization problems frequently arise in many modern applications where speed, stability and solution accuracy are critically important.

LSU Assistant Professor Fang-Ting Tu secured a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a research project in Number Theory. This project focuses on investigating the connection between two fundamental objects in number theory: modular forms and hypergeometric functions.