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Keisha Cook

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Keisha Cook
Born
Alma materUniversity of Alabama
Known forStochastic and Nonlinear Dynamics
Scientific career
FieldsApplied Mathematics Computational Biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Alabama

Clemson University

Tulane University
Doctoral advisorRodger B. Sidje

Keisha Cook is an assistant professor for the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Clemson University.

Biography

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Cook was born in the suburbs just outside Marietta, Georgia.[1] After receiving her bachelor of science from the University of Alabama for applied mathematics she then began work on her Masters of Arts, which she completed in 2016.[2][3]

Education and research

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Cook received her Ph.D. in 2019 for Applied Mathematics and Computational Biology at the University of Alabama under the supervision of Rodger B. Sidje; her thesis concerned parallel stochastic simulation of biochemical reaction systems.[4] She held a postdoctoral position jointly at Tulane University and the Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology.[5]

Awards and honors

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In 2021 Cook was a part of a team that received a $3,799 grant to fund their Math for All conference.[6] Later the same year a $49,951 for the annual Math for All conference was granted to the same team.[7] In 2022 Dr. Cook received a grant from the Clemson University research fellows for $150,000.[8]

Cook has been invited to many talks including a two part talk series at the University of Alabama in 2020, and a collaborative AWM and AMS meeting in 2021.[9][10]

In 2022 Cook was awarded a Mathematically Gifted & Black SIAM Early Career Fellowship.[11]

In 2024, Cook was named a Gilliam Advisor to Gilliam Fellow Jakini Kauba. They were one of 50 mentor/student pairs taking part in a prestigious program recognizing outstanding advisor/graduate student partnerships organized by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[12]

Selected publications

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  • Beckman, Erin; Cook, Keisha; Eikmeier, Nicole; Hernandez-Torres, Sarai; Junge, Matthew (2021), "Chase-escape with death on trees", The Annals of Probability, 49 (5): 2530–2547, arXiv:1909.01722, doi:10.1214/21-AOP1514.
  • Scott, Sherry; Cook, Keisha; Barley, Kamal (2021), Post-lockdown Dynamics of COVID-19 in New York, Florida, Arizona, and Wisconsin, doi:10.1101/2020.12.28.20248967.

References

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  1. ^ "| Keisha Cook". Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  2. ^ "Spring 2014 Graduates Announced at UA – Page 5 – University of Alabama News | The University of Alabama". Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  3. ^ Staff Writer. "University of Alabama winter commencement 2016: Full list of graduates". The Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  4. ^ "Keisha Cook – The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  5. ^ "Featured Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows | Office Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies". ogps.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  6. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 2113829 – Conference: Math For All in New Orleans". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  7. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 2138357 – Conference: Math for All". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  8. ^ "Clemson Research Fellows". Clemson Research Fellows. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  9. ^ "AWM Talk Series – Dr. Keisha Cook (Tulane University) – Mathematics". math.ua.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  10. ^ "AWM Research Symposium". Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  11. ^ "MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellowship". www.siam.org. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  12. ^ Bunch, Jill E. "Ph.D. student lands prestigious Gilliam Fellowship". Clemson News. Retrieved 15 October 2024.