Rodrigo Banuelos VITA

RODRIGO BAÑUELOS

 

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • California Community Teaching Fellow, University of California, Davis, 1978-1980. (Winters Elementary School. Most fun years as a teacher!)
  • Student Teacher, Sacramento High School, 1978-1980.
    Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980-1984.
  • Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1984-1986.
  • Assistant Professor, Purdue University, 1986-1989.
  • NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1986-1987.(Advisor: Don Burkholder)
  • Associate Professor, Purdue University, 1989-1992.
    Professor, Purdue University, 1992-present
  • Interim Head, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, July 2005-December 2005
  • Head, Department of Matheamtics, Purdue University, 2007--present
AWARDS AND HONORS
  • Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1984-1986.
  • NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana and Purdue University, 1986-1989.
  • NSF Presidential Young Investigator, Purdue University, 1989-1994.
  • Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2000. 2004 Blackwell-Tapia Prize in Mathematics
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  • American Mathematical Society (AMS)
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
  • Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Sciences (SACNAS)
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
EDITORIAL WORK AND OTHER SERVICES TO THE PROFESSION
  • Associate Editor, Annals of Probability, 1991-1996
  • Probability and Statistics Editor, Transactions of the AMS, 1996-2000
  • AMS Committee to select hour speakers for regional meetings, 1991-1992
  • Chairman AMS Central Section Program Committee, 1992
  • Organizer, Special Session on "Martingales and Applications to Analysis," March 1993
  • 2nd International Symposium in Probability and Applications, Bloomington, IN.
  • National Research Council Evaluation Panel, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 1995-1996
  • Co-Organizer, Special Session on "Stochastic Processes", joint, November 1995
  • American Math Society and Sociedad Matematica Mexicana, Guanajuato Mexico
  • AMS Task Force on Participation of Underrepresented Minorities, 1995
  • Organizer Committee for special year (1997-1998) in Stochastic Analysis, 1997-1998
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA 
  • The United States National Committee on Mathematics, 1997-2000
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Scientific Advisory Council, 1998-2002
  • AMS Committee on Committees, 2002-2004
  • Selection Committee for Hour Speakers, AMS-Mexican Math Society Meeting, 2004
  • Co-chair, Selection Committee for Blackwell-Tapia Prize, 2006-2008.
    AMS Book Prize Committee, 2003-Preset
  • Probability Surveys, 2004-Present
  • Editorial Board of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2006-Present
    IPAM Board of Trustees, 2005-2008
  • AMS Leroy P. Steele Prizes Committee, 2005-2008
  • Scientific Program Committee, 32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Urbana, Champaign, August 6-10, 2007.
  • Editorial Board, Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, 2007-Present
Ph.D. STUDENTS
  • Robert Smits  "Conditioned Brownian Motion, Spectral Gaps and Rates to Equilibrium for Diffusions," May 1996
  • Arthur J. Lindeman : "Martingales, the Beurling-Ahlfors Transform, and Lower Bounds for Ground State Eigenfunctions," May 1997
  • Pedro Hénandez-Méndez: "Sharp inequalities for Dirichlet heat kernels for the Laplacian and the Fractional Laplacian with applications to probability," May 2001.
  • Dahae You: "Sharp Inequalities for Schrodinger operators and Laws of the Iterated Logarithm," May 2002
  • Prabhu Janakiraman:  "Weak-Type Estimates for Singular Integrals and Maximal Operators," May 2004
  • Ambica Rajagopal. "Continuity Properties of symmetric Stable Processes," May 2006
  • Erkan Nane. "Iterated Brownian motion: Lifetime Asymptotics and Isoperimetric Inequalities," May 2006

CURRENT Ph.D. STUDENTS

  • Sarah Douthitt. Works on problems on symmetric stable processes
  • Bartlomeij Siudeja. Works on symmetric stable processes, stable scattering, eigenvalues, etc...
PERSONAL INFORMATION

Rodrigo Bañuelos was born in a rural agricultural community (known as La Masita) in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, to a Mexican American father, Sr. José Bañuelos, and a Mexican mother, Sra. Rosalva Bañuelos. As a child he had very little schooling, working (like all kids in that area at that time), mostly on farming. At the age of 15, along with his parents five brothers and one sister, he moved to Pasadena California. Rodrigo Bañuelos believes in the responsibilities of the scientist/academician beyond the boundary of pure scientific and academic research. He has been active in efforts, local and national, to increase the number of minority students in sciences and engineering. He served on the Human Relations Commission (2000-2006) for the City of West Lafayette and is a member of the Golden Apple Awards Selection Committee for the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce.  He lives in West Lafayette Indiana with his wife Rosa and cat Misty. His daughter Nidia is a senior at a far away college and his daughter Carisa a sophomore at a near by college. Last but not least, Rodrigo Bañuelos loves very, very,..., spicy food.  Indeed, so spicy that eating it can become a serious challenge.