This fall the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics at Case Western Reserve University welcomes four new faculty.

Ying Liang, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics.

Dr. Liang earned her PhD in mathematics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021. She held a Golomb Visiting Assistant Professorship at Purdue University and a Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professorship at Duke University before joining CWRU as a tenure-track assistant professor in the fall of 2026.  Dr. Liang’s research combines numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and applied probability to characterize solution behavior and develop novel algorithms in scientific computing. Her core interests include inverse problems, mathematical imaging, scattering theory, and generative modeling.  She has also established an affiliation with the CWRU Center for Imaging Research at the School of Medicine.

Byung-Jun Kim, Instructor in Statistics.

Dr. Kim received his PhD from Virginia Tech in 2020, with a thesis on Semiparametric and nonparametric Methods for Complex Data. Before joining CWRU in the fall of 2026, Dr. Kim was an Assistant Professor at Michigan Technological University. His research interests include data homogeneity testing, Gaussian graphical models, high-dimensional regression, kernel machine learning-based regression, matched case-control studies, measurement error in covariates, semiparametric regression, and uncertainty quantification.

Md Mutasim Billah, Lecturer in Statistics.

Dr. Billah finished his PhD in statistics at Michigan Technological University in 2025, specializing in bioinformatics and statistical genetics, in particular the integration of multi-omics data.  He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in statistics from the University of Dhaka. Most recently he was a visiting assistant professor of statistics at Macalester College.

Adam Krause, Lecturer in Mathematics.

Dr. Krause completed his PhD in Mathematics at Syracuse University in 2025, with a dissertation on Minimal —mean distortion maps between embedded tori.  His teaching experience includes precalculus, calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations, with research training in analysis and geometric function theory. Dr. Krause holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics, with a minor in physics, from SUNY Brockport.