Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Ms. Cuixian (Tracy) Chen, Visiting Assistant Professor, will begin her position in the Mathematics and Statistics Department in the fall 2007.  Dr. Chen received a B.A. in Statistics and Probability and a M.A. in Applied Math from Zhongshan University, China and a M.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Binghamton University.  Her dissertation is titled “Asymptotic Properties of BJE in Linear Regression Models with Bivariate Mixed Interval-Censored Data.” 

Dr. Xiaojie (Stanley) Hou, Assistant Professor, will begin his tenure-track assistant professor position in the Mathematics and Statistics Department in the fall 2007.  Dr. Hou received his BS and MS from Shan-Dong Teacher’s University, China.  He received his PhD from The University of Iowa in 2004.  His dissertation, “Traveling Wave Solutions of One Dimensional Reaction Diffusion Equation,” is a study in dynamical systems and partial differential equations and their applications, especially in biology.  Before coming to UNCW, Dr. Hou held the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at University of Cincinnati, where he taught a variety of undergraduate mathematics courses and conducted research on the effects of class size and college mathematics study in addition to his primary research topics.

Dr. Kelli M. Slaten, Assistant Professor, began her tenure-track assistant professor position in the Mathematics and Statistics Department in January 2007.  Dr. Slaten received her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from North Carolina State University in 2006. Her dissertation “Effective Teaching and Uses of Instructional Representations in Secondary Geometry: A Comparison of a Novice and an Experienced Mathematics Teacher” has been nominated for NC State’s Graduate School Thesis and Dissertation Award.  Her research in software engineering education has been published in the ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing and the International Journal on Engineering Education.  She has presented numerous conference papers concerning the teaching and learning of mathematics through the use of representations and has participated in a variety of related research projects through the Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education (CRMSE) at NC State.