Maria Emelianenko is a Russian-American applied mathematician and materials scientist known for her work in

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, grain growth, and

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s. She is a professor of mathematical sciences at

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...

Education and career

Emelianenko earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics in 1999 and a master's degree in 2001 from Moscow State University, both ''

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''. Her master's thesis, ''Numerical approach to solving Andronov–Hopf and Bogdanov–Takkens systems of differential equations'', was supervised by Alexander Bratus. She then came to

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

for additional graduate study. She earned a second master's degree in 2002 with the thesis ''Analysis of Constrained Multidimensional Birth-Death Processes'' supervised by Natarajan Gautam. Gautam moved to

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in 2005, and Emelianenko completed her Ph.D. the same year under the supervision of

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, with the dissertation ''Multilevel and Adaptive Methods for Some Nonlinear Optimization Problems''. After postdoctoral research at the

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Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Emelianenko joined the George Mason University mathematics faculty in 2007. She was promoted to full professor in 2017. At George Mason, she is also affiliated faculty with the Computational Materials Science Center, and directs the Math PhD Industrial Immersion Program.

Activism

Emelianenko has acted as an activist for women in mathematics, writing of differential treatment of female faculty members in mathematics departments and of prejudice against talented women deriving from a misguided belief that their success was due to tokenism. She has been an organizer of many workshops and symposia, including several aimed at women in mathematics.

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