Casey Diekman MS, PhD

Casey Diekman is a mathematical biologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2010. Diekman was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University until joining the NJIT faculty in 2013. Recently, he spent a year in residence at the University of Exeter as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar. Diekman’s research interests include mathematical and computational modeling of circadian (~24-hour) rhythms such as the sleep-wake cycle, data assimilation, machine learning, and dynamical systems analysis. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Army Research Office.