Directorate
Kevin Corlette
Director
Kevin Corlette was appointed as the Director of IMSI on August 1, 2020. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago since 1987. He served as chair of the department from 2001-2007, and again from 2017-2020. In addition, he served as director of the Masters Program in Financial Mathematics from 2012-2015. His research lies in differential and algebraic geometry, and has touched on areas such as non-Abelian Hodge theory, rigidity of lattices in Lie groups, and representations of fundamental groups of Kähler manifolds. He was a recipient of an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award. He was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians.
Hongmei Jiang
Associate Director
Hongmei Jiang was appointed as the Associate Director of IMSI on August 1, 2024. She is a Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Northwestern University, where she has been a faculty member since 2005. Since 2021, she has served as the Director of the MS in Statistics and Data Science Program at Northwestern, overseeing its launch and growth. She served as the Local Committee Chair for the 2017 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Symposium, and as the General Chair for the 12th (virtual in 2021) and 13th (in-person in 2022) ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB). Her research focuses on developing statistical methodologies and computational algorithms to analyze and interpret high-dimensional -omics data, including genomics, epigenomics, and metagenomics.
Takis Souganidis
Scientific Adviser
Takis Souganidis is Professor of Mathematics and Member of the Committee in Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He works in deterministic and stochastic partial differential equations, and is interested in applied mathematics. He was a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award. He was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians and the 2019 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, AMS, and SIAM.
Philip W. Hammer
Executive Director
Philip (Bo) W. Hammer was appointed Executive Director of IMSI on January 1, 2021. Hammer comes to IMSI after 10 years at the American Institute of Physics, where he was the founding and interim Executive Director of the AIP Foundation. He also led AIP’s major antiracism initiative that addressed under representation of African Americans in physics and astronomy. Hammer received his BS in Physics from Humboldt State University and his PhD in Physics from the University of Oregon. From 1991-93, Hammer was an ONR Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Silver Spring, MD. Hammer spent the ‘93-’94 year as an APS Congressional Science Fellow working on the staff of the Subcommittee on Science in the US House of Representatives. He worked at AIP from 1994-2000, and was Director of the Society of Physics Students and Sigma Pi Sigma. From 2000-2008, Hammer was a vice president The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. Hammer is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Staff
Denise Slavinski
Director of Operations
Bernard Davis
Director of IT and AV Services
Sam Hansen
Director of Communications and Engagement
Rebecca Heffner
Program Manager
Heydi Rivera
Program Administrator
Lauren Neher
Program Coordinator
Deborah Jones
Program Coordinator
June Lo
Program Coordinator
Fuad Khaleel
Financial Administrator
