Contact
215 Maxim Doucet Hall
337-482-5172 & 5173
bruce.wade@louisiana.edu
Mathematics Department
P.O. Box 43568
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA 70503-3568
Degrees
Ph.D. 1987 University of Wisconsin- Madison
M.S. 1984 University of Wisconsin- Madison
B.S. 1982 University of Wisconsin- Madison
For a detailed list of publications: C.V.
Information
I received Bachelor of Science (1982) and Master of Science (1984) degrees in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. From 1979-1982 I was a member of the UW Marching Band. I earned a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics (1987) from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. My dissertation, which is in the area of Numerical Analysis, was directed by John Strikwerda. While a doctoral student I was employed by the Army Math Research Center. After graduating, I received a post-doctoral research appointment in Mathematics at Cornell University, Mathematical Sciences Institute, also sponsored by the U.S. Army. There, I studied under Lars Wahlbin. I joined the faculty in the Mathematical Sciences Department at University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee in 1989. After serving 29 years at UW-Milwaukee, moved to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette as Professor and Department Head (Mathematics). I am also Professor Emeritus at UW- Milwaukee.
I teach mathematics and conduct research in applied mathematics. My main research interests are in the areas of numerical analysis and computational mathematics. With several graduate students, our research group has been working on various questions in data science and machine learning. We have worked on theory and algorithms for problems of missing data under monotone or non-monotone patterns, optimization and hyper-parameter tuning, and Ridge Functions and Active Subspaces for dimension reduction.
I am associate editor for these journals (click the images):
I am Co-Founder of the International Research Conference Series Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE) (click the image):
