- Associate Professor
- Applied Mathematics and Probability
- Phone: 401.874.2475
- Email: jchavezc@uri.edu
- Office Location: Lippitt Hall 200F
- Website
Research
Areas: Financial Mathematics, Stochastic Processes and Control as well as general Probability Theory and Modeling
Software Skills: R and (some) Matlab
Links: Google Scholar, ORCID, GitHub, Research Gate
Current Graduate Student: Li Gan, Ph.D. candidate (advisor)
Graduate Student Research: Capacity to advise new students
Teaching Interests
Probability, Stochastic Processes, Analysis, Measure Theory, Functional Analysis, Linear Algebra, Partial and Ordinary Differential Equations as well as the numerical methods involved in most of the above.
Education
Ph.D., Mathematics, Purdue University, IN, 2015
M.Sc., Computational Finance, Purdue University, IN, 2015
B.Sc., Matemáticas Aplicadas, Universidad Anáhuac México Norte, Edo. de México, 2008
Biography
Jonathan A. Chávez Casillas, Ph.D., an applied mathematics associate professor at the University of Rhode Island, has been at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematical Sciences since 2017 after a two-year postdoc at the University of Calgary. Jonathan has published some journal articles in the areas of Mathematical Finance, particularly in High-Frequency Trading, in Mathematical Biology, particularly in Stochastic Epidemic models, in Marine Ecology and in Numerical Linear Algebra. He has given many talks in both scientific venues and general mathematical divulgation settings at various levels. Jonathan teaches a wide variety of courses at both undergraduate and graduate level and also contributes regularly to the Data Science program at URI, where he has taught and created some of the required courses for this program. Jonathan has mentored multiple students at the M.Sc. level and currently is advising a PhD student, but he is looking to mentor more students with a probability background for the Ph.D. level. As of Fall of 2026, Jonathan will be serving as the Graduate Committee director.