RODRIGO BAÑUELOS

 

EDUCATION

Pasadena City College, 1973-1974 (no degree).
University of California, Santa Cruz: BA in Mathematics, 1978.
University of California, Davis: M.A.T. in Mathematics (with a California High School Teaching Credential) 1980.
University of California, Los Angeles: Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1984. (Advisor: Rick Durrett)


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, 1986-1089.
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1986-1987.(Advisor: Don Burkholder)
Associate Professor, Purdue University, 1989-1992.
Professor, Purdue University, 1992-present
Interim Department Head, Purdue University, June 2005-December 2005


AWARDS AND HONORS

Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1984-1986.
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana and Purdue University, 1996-1989.
NSF Presidential Young Investigator, Purdue University, 1989-1994.
Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2000.
2004 Blackwell-Tapia Prize in Mathematics, 2004.


MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Sciences (SACNAS)


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
AMS Book Prize Committee, 2003-Preset
Associate Editor, Probability Surveys, 2004-Present
IPAM Board of Trustees, 2005-2008
AMS Leroy P. Steele Prizes Committee, 2005-2008


Ph.D. STUDENTS

1) Robert Smits  "Conditioned Brownian Motion, Spectral Gaps and Rates to Equilibrium for Diffusions," May 1996
2) Arthur J. Lindeman : "Martingales, the Beurling-Ahlfors Transform, and Lower Bounds for Ground State Eigenfunctions," May 1997
3) Pedro Hénandez-Méndez: "Sharp inequalities for Dirichlet heat kernels for the Laplacian and the Fractional Laplacian with applications to probability," May 2001
4) Dahae You: "Sharp Inequalities for Schrodinger operators and Laws of the Iterated Logarithm," May 2002
5) Prabhu Janakiraman:  "Weak-Type Estimates for Singular Integrals and Maximal Operators, May 2004"

CURRENT Ph.D. STUDENTS

6) Ambica Rajagopal. Works on stability problems for symmetric stable processes (graduating May 2006)
7) Erkan Nane. Works on problems on Iterated Brownian motion (graduating May 2006)
8) Sarah Douthitt. Works on problems on singular integrals related to the Beurling--Ahlfors operators
9) Bartlomeij Siudeja, Works on symmetric stable processes, stable scattering, eigenvalues, etc...


PERSONAL INFORMATION

Rodrigo Bañuelos was born in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, to a Mexican American father, Sr. José Bañuelos, and a Mexican mother, Sra. Rosalva Bañuelos. He was a farmer for the first 15 years of his life. 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/academic research. He has been very active in many efforts, local and national, designed 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, daughter Carisa (a senior at the West Lafayette High School), dog Sebastian and cat Misty.  His daughter Nidia is a sophomore at a far away college. Last but not least, Rodrigo Bañuelos loves very, very,..., spicy food.  Indeed, so spicy that the process of eating it becomes a serious challenge.