Short Bio

My Ph.D (1996) advisor was Doron Lubinsky (Georgia Tech) and my Alma-Mater is the University of the Witwatersrand, South Afica. I am Founding and Present Director of the Unit for Advances in Mathematics and its Applications, GSU (Georgia Southern University), and hold he title of Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, WITS (University of the Witwatersrand). My research is sponsored by NSF, the Airforce Office of Scientific Research and EPSRC. My research interests include Harmonic Analysis, Approximation Theory, Random Matrices, Differential Geometry, Computer Vision, Imaging, Signal Processing and Inverse Problems. I have over 65 research papers and 3 books accepted, submitted or in preparation and have given over 103 talks in 4 continents.

I was a 2005 IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications), University of Minnesota, New Directions Professor and hold numerous other teaching and research awards. My list of undergraduate and graduate research students at GSU, WITS, University of Leicester and the University of Michigan can be found at http://math.georgiasouthern.edu/~ damelin/students.html. From 2008-present, I have been involved in advising high school and minority students mathematics in Bulloch County Schools and in GSA, Georgia Southern Student Multicultural Center. I am a senior member of IEEE and an EPSRC fellow till the end of 2008. I served on the Georgia Southern Senate from 2005-2007. I have held visiting research and teaching positions at The University of the Wiwatersrand, The University of South Florida, The Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium, The Pennsylvania State University and the University of Minnesota. Details of my research, awards, students and service can be found in my vita and on the homepages below:

  • Personal homepage: http://math.georgiasouthern.edu/~ damelin.
  • UAIM homepage: http://math.georgiasouthern.edu/~ damelin/applcenter.html.
  • Cyber homepage: http://math.georgiasouthern.edu/~ damelin/greg/cyber.html.