CMS Spotlight
- von Karman Instructor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Catherine Babecki
Catherine Babecki is a postdoctoral researcher jointly supported by the CMS Department as a von Karman instructor and the Mathematics Department as a Taussky-Todd Teaching Fellow, hosted by Venkat Chandrasekaran, Nets Katz, and Leonard Schulman. She is broadly interested in combinatorics, discrete geometry, spectral graph theory, theoretical computer science, and optimization. She completed her PhD with Rekha Thomas at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2023. Before UW, she received a BS in mathematics from Penn State, and an AS in mathematics from Mercer County Community College.
- Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Franca Hoffmann
Franca Hoffmann's research is focused on the interface between applied mathematics and data analysis, driven by the need to provide rigorous mathematical foundations for modeling tools used in applications.