Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

See also: Publications 2025/2026

Academic publications and presentations

2024/2025

• Ghada Almashaqbeh, Sixia Chen, and Alexander Russell (2025) "Competitive Policies for Online Collateral Maintenance," Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), LIPIcs, Volume 316, pp. 26:1–26:16, https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202506/rnoti-p624.pdf
• M. Bahrami-Taghanaki, T. Foguel, A.R. Moghaddamfar, I.N. Nakaoka, and J. Schmidt (2024) "Nonstabilizing graphs arising from group actions," Communications in Algebra (2024), 53(3) 1265–1278, https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2024.2405644

  Robert E. Bradley and Salvatore J. Petrilli Jr "From Differentials to Derivatives,", Notices Of The American Mathematical Society vol. 72, number 6, American Mathematical Society, pp. 624–635. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202506/rnoti-p624.pdf.

• Mark Budden, Laszlo Goch, and Josh Hiller, "Computational lower bounds for weakened Ramsey numbers from strongly regular t-colorings of complete graphs", Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications https://pages.mtu.edu/~kreher/BICA/Abstracts/BICA2024-54-Abstract.pdf
• Foani, Guglielmo, Urso, Daniele, Hiller, Josh, Piccininni, Marco, Marin, Benot & Logroscino, Giancarlo (n.d.) "The multistep pathogenic hypothesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is incompatible with the epidemiological data", European Journal of Epidemiology, in press.
• Foguel, T., Moghaddamfar, A. R., Schmidt, J., and Velasquez-Berroteran, A. (2025) "Concerning equally covered groups." International Electronic Journal of Algebra, 37, 352–365. https://doi.org10.24330/ieja.1567377
• Foguel, Tuval. "Finite Groups in Which Every Subgroup of Order Divisible by p is Normal," Advances in Group Theory and Applications, pending publication.
• Jing, F., Berger, S., Sandoval, J., Pepper, K., Wheeler, A., Redondomayoral, P., Lokesh, D., Feng, A., Mijalkovic, M.,  Chaoyun, B., Dholakia, S. &  Goyal, M. (2024, April). "Designing for Agonism: 12 Workers' Perspectives on Contesting Technology Futures. ACM Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 8, No. CSCW1. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3641001
• Franklin, J., Hawkins, E., Morales-Hernández, M., & Rebholz, L. G. (2024) Efficiency and Robustness of the (Anderson)-Picard-Newton Iteration for Solving Nonlinear PDEs.
  Proceedings of the 16th World Congress in Computational Mechanics (WCCM), Vancouver, Canada, July 21 – 26, 2024.
• Goch, Laszlo & Chen, Sixia (2024). Data Migration in Large Scale Storage Systems with Varying File Sizes. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Systems (ICACS), Hong Kong, China, ACM.
• Hiller, Joshua (2024). "Hypergraph and a model of epidemiology." Keynote, 80th Graph Theory Day of New York, New York, NY. Mathematical Association of America.
• Hiller, Joshua (2025) "Experiences with unionization of faculty at private universities, round table discussion" An invited roundtable discussion, AAUP meeting, American University.
• Hiller, Joshua. "The Poetry of Category Theory," American Mathematical Monthly, pending publication.
• Hiller, Joshua. "Proving a generalized multinomial theorem by coloring set partitions," American Mathematical Monthly, pending publication.
• Hiller, Josh (2025, May) "Euclid's theorem, Eureka!" Math Intelligencer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-025-10424-y
• Hiller, Josh, Olvera, Jacqueline R., Wright, Matthew, Brown, Robert A., Schnellman, Jennifer, Zaretsky, Robert, Dirks, Nicholas (2025, March) Trump's assault on US universities: five views from the chainsaw's teeth, The Times Higher Education.
• Hiller, Josh & Yeng, Sokthan (2025, April) "Math lessons from sacred texts", Metro NYC Spring Sectional Meeting, Mathematical Association of America.
• Hiller, Josh (2025, April) Math-poetry round table lunch. Round table discussion ad Mathematics Association of America Metro New York City Meeting.
• Koshy, Sherli & Morales-Hernández, Mónica D. (2024) Dynamic Mentoring with Mathematical Modeling. Presented at MAA MathFest, Indianapolis.
• Leider, Avery & Li, Sukun (2025) "Brain-Computer Interactions in Extended Reality with Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing," in Proceedings of the International Conference on AI x Multimedia (AIxMM), Laguna Hills, California, February 3–5, 2025, IEEE, ISBN: 979-8-3503-9097-1
• Leune, Kees (2024). "Adoption of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework." Lecture, Regional Research and Education Networks Information Sharing and Analysis Center, Princeton, NJ, November 13, 2024.
• Li, Sukun & Luo, Haitao (2024) "EEG-Based User Identification in Gaming: Comparative Analysis of Emotion Simulations," in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI), Beijing, China, December 6–8, 2024, ACM, ISBN: 979-8-4007-1818-2
• Li, Sukun (2025) "Channel Selection for EEG Biometrics under Emotion Simulation", The 19th International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA), Tokyo, Japan, Jun 24–26, 2025, Springer.
• Morales-Hernández, Mónica (2024). Communicating Employment Opportunities Seminar Series. Association of Women in Mathematics, Online, September 13, November 8, 2024.
• Morales-Hernández, Mónica (2024). Mathematics of Social Justice through Modeling, Lightning talk at MAA Metro NeXT Workshop, Mathematical Association of America.
• Morales-Hernández, Mónica (2024). AI in the Mathematics Classroom. Roundtable discussion. MAA Metro NeXT Workshop, Mathematical Association of America.
• Pepper, Kristin (2024). Designing for Agonism: 12 Workers’ Perspectives on Contesting Technology Futures. 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ACM, Costa Rica November 12, 2024.
• Turasie, Alemtsehai (2024)  "Assessment of Granger causality and lead-lag relationship between monthly temperature and precipitation."  The American Geophysical Union's 2024 conference (AGU24), Washington DC, December 9–13, 2024.
• Venkatesh, Anil (2025, April) "The Vanishing Point". The Mathematical Intelligencer, Springer, 47 (2).

Theses

• Dixit, Vaishnavi. "Classification in highly unbalanced data sets." Honors Thesis, Honors College, Adelphi University, NY, Work in progress. Supervisor: Joshua Hiller.
• Goch, Laszlo. "Computational lower bounds for weekend Ramsey Numbers". Honors Thesis, Honors College, Adelphi University, NY, Work in progress. Supervisor: Joshua Hiller.
• Moorji, Fatemahzahra. "Tailored Taste: The Future of Meal Planning with AI". Honors Thesis, Honors College, Adelphi University, NY, Work in progress. Supervisor: Sukun Li.
• Murphy, Courtney. "Disrupting the Math Anxiety Cycle: Strategies for Reducing Math Anxiety and Fostering Cooperative Learning.". Honors Thesis, Honors College, Adelphi University, NY, Work in progress. Supervisor: Mónica Morales-Hernández
• Parsa, Roya. "Optimizing proton stopping power estimation for cancer treatment using machine learning algorithms and dual-energy CT models." Honors Thesis, Honors College, Adelphi University, NY, Work in progress. Supervisor: Sixia Chen
• Ramharack, Joshanna. "Minimizing the Risk of Phishing Attacks Targeting Students." Honors Thesis, Honors College, Adelphi University, NY, Work in progress. Supervisor: Kees Leune.
• Tuktina, Madina. " Short-Term Stock Price Prediction Using Deep Learning: The Role of LSTM Models." Honors Thesis, Honors College, Adelphi University, NY, Work in progress. Supervisor: Mónica Morales-Hernández.

Honors and Awards

• Dixit, Vaishnavi. Winner of the inaugural Summer Fellowship from the Adelphi University Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Works (OURCW). Summer 2024.
• Dixit, Vaishnavi. Ranked first place in the inaugural paper contest of the OURCW, reflecting on summer research at Adelphi University. Summer 2024.

Grants

• The SIAM-Simon's foundation awarded a grant of $41,9000 to support two students in summer research. Principal Investigator: Joshua Hiller.
• Dolciani Mathematics Enrichment Grant, Mathematical Association of America (for Summer 2025), $5,000, “ASIME Speakers Series” Josh Hiller and Anil Venkatesh. 
• American Mathematical Society's Young Scholars Programs (for Summer 2025), $5,000 "The Adelphi Summer Institute in Mathematical Epidemiology (ASIME): an immersive six-week experience for mathematically talented high school students with substantial enrollment from underrepresented demographic groups," Anil Venkatesh and Josh Hiller.