People
The Center for Constructive Approximation comprises faculty, students, and visiting researchers working in Approximation Theory and related areas in Analysis, Spline and Wavelet Theory, and Numerical Analysis.
Faculty
| Akram Aldroubi
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Concentration: Harmonic Analysis, Functional Analysis, Wavelet Theory, Frame Theory, Sampling Theory, Approximation Theory, Image Processing and Biomathematics
Website: https://math.vanderbilt.edu/aldroua/ |
Doug Hardin![]() |
Concentration: Fractal Geometry, Mathematical Biology
Website: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/doughardin/ Email: doug.hardin@vanderbilt.edu |
Mike Neamtu![]() |
Concentration: Approximation Theory
Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~neamtu/index.html Email: marian.neamtu@vanderbilt.edu |
Alex Powell![]() |
Concentration: Harmonic Analysis, Time-frequency Analysis, Wavelets, Biomathematics, Signal and Image Processing, Sigma-delta Quantization |
Larry Rolen![]() |
Concentration: Number Theory, specifically Modular Forms, Harmonic Maass Forms, and Quantum Modular Forms.
Website: https://math.vanderbilt.edu/rolenl/index.html Email: larry.rolen@vanderbilt.edu |
Edward Saff![]() |
Concentration: Approximation Theory, Potential Theory, Orthogonal Expansions, Complex Analysis
Website: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/edsaff/ Email: Edward.B.Saff@Vanderbilt.Edu |
Larry Schumaker![]() |
Concentration: Approximation Theory, Spline Theory, Computer Aided Design |
Postdocs
| James Hateley | Concentration: Computational Partial Differential Equations and Computational Physics
Website: http://www.jchateley.com/ |
Wöden Kusner![]() |
Concentration: Discrete and Optimal Geometry
Website: https://wkusner.github.io Email: w.kusner@vanderbilt.edu |
| Ivan Medri | Concentration: Control and Sampling Theory
Website: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/math/bio/?who=ivan-medri Email: ivan.v.medri@vanderbilt.edu |
| Ian Wagner | Concentration: Number Theory, specifically Modular Forms, Harmonic Maass Forms, and L-functions.
Website: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/wagneric/ Email: ian.c.wagner@vanderbilt.edu |
Graduate Students
Jonathan Ashbrock![]() |
Website: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/math/bio/?who=jonathan-ashbrock |
| Zhen Gao | Website: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/math/bio/?who=zhen-gao
Email: zhen.gao.1@vanderbilt.edu |
Diana Sordillo![]() |
Website: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/math/bio/?who=diana-sordillo |
| Sumati Thareja | Website: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/math/bio/?who=sumati-thareja |









