Abba Gumel

Abba B. Gumel
Abba B. Gumel
	Gumel in 2022
Alma mater	Brunel University London (PhD)
Occupation(s)	Professor of Mathematics, University of Maryland
Awards	(a) Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Class of 2024; (b) Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS); (c) Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); (d) Fellow, American Mathematical Society (AMS); (e) Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM); (f) 2021 Bellman prize (with Kamaldeen Okuneye); (g) Speaker, The AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics, 2021; (h) Fellow, African Academy of Science; (i) Dr. Lindsay E. Nicolle Award for the best paper published in the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology (2009);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical biology; Applied dynamical systems; Computational mathematics;
Website	https://math.umd.edu/~agumel/

Abba Gumel is a Professor & The Michael and Eugenia Brin Endowed E-Nnovate Chair in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park. His research, which spans three main areas of applied mathematics (namely, mathematical biology, applied dynamical systems and computational mathematics), is focused on the use of mathematical modeling and rigorous approaches, together with statistical analysis, to gain insight into the dynamics of real-life phenomena arising in the natural and engineering sciences. The main emphasis of Gumel's work is on the mathematical theory of epidemics – specifically, he uses mathematical theories and methodologies to gain insights into the qualitative behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems arising from the mathematical modelling of phenomena in the natural and engineering sciences, with emphasis on the transmission dynamics and control of emerging and re-emerging human (and other animal) infectious diseases of public health and socio-economic interest.