Math CEO Team

Our team is mostly composed of professors, graduate and undergraduate students at UC Irvine, as well as Santa Ana middle school teachers.


  • Alessandra Pantano

    ✉  apantano@uci.edu
    Alessandra is the Director of the UC Irvine Math Circle. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 2004, and is currently a Lecturer PSOE in the UC Irvine Department of Mathematics.


  • Andres Forero

    ✉  aforeroc@uci.edu
    Andres is a Coordinator of Math CEO. He is a passionate and creative teacher and loves to use different resources to guide students to learning. His hometown is Bogota, Colombia. He obtained his PhD in UC Irvine in 2015. His research area is Inner Model Theory, a branch of Set Theory in which models of set are built in a very specific way.


  • Jasmina Matasovic

    ✉  Jasmina.Matasovic@sausd.us
    Jasmina is the Coordinator of the UCI STEMath Club at Lathrop Intermediate School in Santa Ana, California. She teaches Math at Lathrop and holds graduate degree from UCLA and Teaching Credential from UCI.


  • Ana Laura Govea Grajeda

    ✉  agoveagr@uci.edu
    Ana is a Math CEO Outreach Assistant and she is in my second year studying pure mathematics. She is interested in encouraging minority students into pursuing majors in STEM.


  • Micah Nacpil

    ✉  mnacpil@uci.edu
    Micah is an Outreach Assistant and currently a fourth year Education Science student with a specialization in Digital Media and Learning and minoring in Health Informatics at UCI. She is interested in the integration of technology within a classroom setting.


  • Phung Duong

    ✉  phunghd@uci.edu
    Phung is the webmaster of Math CEO and a fourth year undergraduate math student at UCI. She is interested in Analysis and Actuarial Science. She is also president of UCI Actuary Club.


  • Li-Sheng Tseng

    ✉  lstseng@uci.edu
    Li-Sheng is an Asscciate Professor in Mathematics at UC Irvine and does research in geometry/topology and physics.


  • Brandi Schumacher

    ✉  blschuma@uci.edu
    Brandi is one of the Coordinators for Math CEO. She is a currently a lecturer in the School of Education at UC Irvine. She is interested how children develop and learn, and she studies what influences the health and well being of young people.


  • German Enciso

    ✉  enciso@uci.edu
    German is an Associate professor in the UCI Mathematics Department. He is originally from Colombia and a native Spanish speaker. He is interested in mathematical biology research.


  • Haley Feng

    ✉  hyfeng@uci.edu
    Haley is a Math CEO Outreach Assistant and a second year undergraduate student studying mathematics.


  • Jonathan Mau

    ✉  mauj@uci.edu
    Jonathan is a Math CEO Outreach Assistant and a second year undergraduate student at UCI. He is interested in economics and mathematics.



  • SANTA ANA MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS
    Gary Dyas, Lathrop Intermediate
    Maria Gomez-Greenberg, Lathrop
    Samantha Haelstrom, Lathrop Intermediate
    Anne Marie Streckfus, Villa Intermediate
    Ruth Karr, Villa Intermediate
    Nikolina Petrova, Villa Intermediate
    David Rhodes, Lathrop Intermediate
    Jose Valdez, Villa Intermediate

  • OTHER COLLABORATORS
    Roman Cardona, UC Irvine Financial Aid
    Penelope Collins, UCI School of Education
    Diane Hsieh, UCI School of Education
    Juan Gabriel Malagon
    Tanaz Gibbs, UC Irvine LARC
    Viviana Ramos, UC Irvine Upward Bound
    Tracie Welser, UC Irvine LARC


LARC

Contact: larc@uci.edu
The mission of UCI's Learning and Academic Resource Center (LARC) is to create independent, confident learners by connecting successful students trained as facilitators with peers enrolled in historically challenging courses, and by providing creative study strategies and encouraging active involvement in the enthusiastic pursuit of academic success.


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Past Members

Cynthia Sanchez
Kevin Reimer
Monica Romero
Mariano Franco
Danny Nguyen
Sang Truong - Web Master