Name: Rishu Saxena

Last position held: Visiting Assistant Faculty cum post-doctoral researcher in Mathematics Department, Michigan State Universty.

Education:

August 2003 to December 2008 -- Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Arizona State University, AZ. Thesis title, "High Order methods for Edge Detection and Applications". Advisors, Professor Anne Gelb and Professor Hans Mittelmann.

July 2000 to May 2002 -- Master's in Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India.

August 1997 to June 2000 -- Bachelor's in Science, Lucknow University, India. Major in Mathematics and Physics. Minor in Chemistry.

Research Experience:

1. Post-doctoral researcher at Michigan State University. My research there focused on developing

high order reconstruction methods based on partial differential equations to model bio-molecular

surfaces like those of virus and proteins.

2. Guest scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN: Collaborated with research staff on

edge detection techniques for applications in stochastic partial differential equations, (Novem-

ber - December 2007).

3. Research Assistant in Structural Lab, Aerospace Department, Indian Institute of Technol-

ogy, Kanpur: Team member for project entitled "Structural Optimization of Launch Vehicle

Components", (August 2002 - May 2003).

Publications:

1. R. Archibald, A. Gelb, and R. Saxena, Adjusting for Noise in the Polynomial Annihilation

Edge Detection Method, in preparation.

2. C. Chen, R. Saxena and Guo Wei Wei, A Mulitscale Model for Virus Capsid Dynamics,

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, vol. 2010, Article ID 308627, 9 pages, 2010.

3. R. Archibald, A. Gelb, R. Saxena, and D. B. Xiu, Discontinuity Detection in Multivariate

Space for Stochastic Simulations, Journal of Computational Physics, 228, pp. 2676-2689,

2009.

4. R. Saxena, A. Gelb, and H. Mittelmann, A High Order Method for Determining the Edges

in the Gradient of a Function, Communications in Computational Physics, 5, No. 2-4, pp.

694-711, 2009.

Conference presentations/posters:

1. "Multiscale Modeling of Virus Capsid Formation and Evolution," Midwest Conference on

Mathematical Methods for Images and Surfaces, East Lansing, Michigan, April 2009.

2. "Discontinuity Detection in Stochastic Computations," Society for Industrial and Applied

Mathematics (SIAM) Annual Meeting & Conference on Imaging Science, San Diego, Califor-

nia, July 2008.

3. "High Order Methods for Edge Detection and Applications," Computational Math Seminar,

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University, February 2008.

4. "High Order Methods for Determining Edges in the Gradient of a Function," Graduate Stu-

dent Seminar Series, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University,

October 2007.

5. "Detection of Edges in Derivatives," International Conference on Spectral and Higher Order

Methods (ICOSAHOM), Beijing, China, June 2007.

6. Modeling and Computation of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, Mathematical Biosciences Institute,

Ohio, April 2011 (upcoming).

Awards and Honors:

1. Travel Award from Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Summer 2009. (did

not accept, though.)

2. Travel Award from International Committee on Spectral and Higher Order Methods (ICOSA-

HOM), Summer 2009. (did not accept, though.)

3. Student Travel Award from Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Summer

2008.

4. Nominated for FWA (Faculty Women's Association) Distinguished Research Award, Arizona

State University, 2007-2008.

5. Travel Award from the Graduate Professional Students Association, Arizona State University,

Fall 2007.

6. Travel Award from the PFMF (Preparing Future Math Faculty), Arizona State University,

Fall 2007.

7. Travel Awards from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University,

Summer 2007, Fall 2007, Summer 2008.

8. Travel Award from the Division of Graduate Studies, Arizona State University, Summer 2007.

9. Travel Award from International Committee on Spectral and Higher Order Methods (ICOSA-

HOM), Summer 2007.

10. Summer 2007 Research Award (Block Grant), Division of Graduate Studies, Arizona State

11. Recognized as `Honors Disciplinary Faculty' by the Barrett Honors College, ASU, Spring

2007.

12. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Spring 2006.

Brief description of research interests:

Image processing, Numerical Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), Navier Stokes equation,

developing techniques based on PDEs to solve more general real world world problems

(eg. image processing, evolution of bio-molecular surfaces such as capsid formation in proteins

and virus), multi-dimensional data, Essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) techniques, different

coordinate systems, linear algebra.

Other experience:

1. Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, ASU (Fall 2004 - Spring 2007).

Independent instructor for several courses at ASU:

As instructor I had full responsibility for each class which ranged from 19 to 40 students. This

included complete class organization, lecturing, preparing and grading exams, quizzes and homeworks as

well as assigning the final course grade.

2. Visiting Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University (Spring 2009).

Independent instructor for two sections of an undergraduate course at MSU.

Programming languages: FORTRAN, C/C++, Matlab, Python.

Math libraries: NAG, LINPACK.

Contact phone no.: 480-***-****

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