Dr. Vrushali A. Bokil

Professor
Department of Mathematics
Oregon State University

Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies
College of Science
Oregon State University

Interim Dean (August 1, 2022 - October 30, 2023)
College of Science
Oregon State University

Contact details Mailing address
Office: Kidder 048
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Tel: (541) 737-2609
Fax: (541) 737-0517
Department of Mathematics
368 Kidder Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
USA


Background

Professor Bokil received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Houston in 2003 under the direction of Dr. Roland Glowinski. Before coming to Oregon State University, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University , under the mentorship of Dr. H.T. Banks.

Membership on AWM, SIAM and AMS Committees

  1. Steering Committee, WINASc: Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
  2. Chair SIAM Career Opportunities Committee
  3. Member, AMS-MAA-SIAM Committee on Employment Opportunities (JCEO)
    Also see the AMS Committees site and information about this committee.

Organization Links:
Dr. Bokil's Departmental Homepage
Department of Mathematics
Oregon State University


Diversity/Equity/Inclusion Links:
Office of Student Life
Bias Incident Response
Diversity Education
President's Commission on the Status of Women (Dr. Bokil was a past member)
OSU ADVANCE (Dr. Bokil is a seminar graduate, past Fellow and a trained Trainer)
National Math Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences (Dr. Bokil is a mentor)

Current Grant Funding in Diversity/Equity/Inclusion
NSF DMS # 1921196: Improving Culture and Climate in the Mathematical Sciences: Moving Toward Action

ARTICLES ON MY WORK

  1. Dr. Bokil's research in mathematical biology is in the news. See
    1. Mathematical Biology Tackles Destructive Plant Virus.
    2. Researchers use mathematical modeling to fight plant diseases
    3. Fighting disease with mathematics
    4. Biohealth science's connection to quantitative sciences

  2. Articles on Dr. Bokil's work on equity & inclusion
    1. Inclusive Excellence Award
    2. ADVANCE faculty fellowship
      Also see Article in IMPACT magazine.
    3. Oregon State ADVANCE Seminar
    4. Balancing the equation: The number of women mathematicians at OSU is adding up (Terra Magazine). See also Balancing the equation

  3. Career Opportunities for Graduate Students and Postdocs: See my article in SIAM NEWS Inside Out: A Value-Based Approach to Industry Job Hunting

  4. Join the Conversation: Science Worth Spreading Watch the Video and Dr. Bokil's talk, From Love to Despair and Health to Disease: How Mathematics Helps Understand Change


Research interests

Professor Bokil's general research interests are in applied mathematics, scientific computing, numerical analysis and mathematical biology. Her primary research interests are in the numerical solution of wave propagation problems. Specifically, she has conducted research on the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations using a variety of finite difference and finite element methods. Bokil is also working on several problems in mathematical ecology which involve the construction and analyses of  deterministic and stochastic models for applications in population dynamics, epidemiology and spatial ecology.

Associate Editorships:

  1. IEEE JOURNAL ON Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques
  2. International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling

Current Grant Funding

Dr. Bokil is currently a co-PI on two NSF funded projects in computational mathematics, one project in mathematical biology funded by the FACE foundation and an OSU internal grant funded by the SciRiS program in the college of science.

  1. NSF DMS #1720116 OP: Collaborative Research: Compatible Discretizations for Maxwell Models in Nonlinear Optics in collaboration with Drs Yingda Cheng at Michigan State and Fengyan Li at RPI.

  2. NSF DMS #2012882: Computational and Multi-Scale Methods for Nonlinear Electromagnetic Models in Plasmas and Nanocomposites in collaboration with Drs Nathan Gibson and Pallavi Dhagat, both at Oregon State.

  3. Mathematical epidemiology of viruses coinfecting plants: Modeling, Analysis and Optimal Control Strategies, funded by the Thomas Jefferson Fund launched by the French-American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Foundation  Along with French collaborator and co-PI, Professor Frederic Hamelin of Agrocampus Ouest in Rennes, France, this project will study coinfection in viral plant epidemics. My group is also working on Optimal Control of Stochastic Epidemics, which was partly funded by the College of Science Research and Innovation Seed (SciRIS-II). This project addresses the modeling of coinfecting viruses in plants. Our goals are to use stochastic models and optimal control theory to understand the mechanisms that drive patterns of coinfection in plant populations and the effective techniques that can control spread of disease.

Research Links:
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - SURE Science
Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and the Arts
Research and Funding Opportunities


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