Melkamu Zeleke Professor • Department of Mathematical Sciences View CV I joined William Paterson University after receiving my PhD in Mathematics from Temple University in 1998 under the guidance of Doron Zeilberger, a renowned Experimental Mathematician and tireless advocate of change in ways we do and teach mathematics. Teaching mathematics with passion gives me great pleasure and the success of my students in their learning is my guiding light. I wholeheartedly believe that all humans have innate ability to learn everything, including mathematics, and work very hard to make sure that students are getting what they need to learn the concepts presented to them in my classes.My general research interest is in Combinatorics, a branch of modern mathematics with applications in computer science, probability theory, data analysis & algorithms. I have published peer reviewed research papers in reputable mathematics journals, including the Annals of Combinatorics and Advances in Applied Mathematics. Currently, I study Riordan arrays and their applications in Combinatorics. Riordan arrays equipped with Shapiro’s multiplication rule form a group, and this group provides an interesting framework to solve combinatorial problems. I am a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics & its Applications and serve as a referee for several mathematics journals.I served as chair of the Mathematics Department from July 2004 to June 2010 and am currently serving as Associate Dean of the College of Science and Health. I am also a recipient of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board award and served as a US Fulbright Scholar at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia from August 2010 to June 2011. Professional Interests Conducting research in enumerative combinatorics and mentoring students. Other Interests Sports: Tennis, Basketball, and Soccer; World History; Classic Movies. Degrees PhD Mathematics, Temple University Philadelphia, PA Specialization Combinatorics and Number Theory Representative Publications On the Mobius Function of a Pointed Graded Lattice; , Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics; Volume 49, 2018 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13226-018-0255-x On Subsets of Ordered Trees Enumerated by a Subsequence of Fibonacci Numbers ; , Proceedings of INTEGERS 2013 conference: The Erdos Centennial; Volume 15A, 2015 http://math.colgate.edu/~integers/vol15a.html Representative Presentations On Combinatorial Interpretations of Shapiro’s Identities Involving some Elements of the Bell Subgroup. Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session American Mathematical Society Baltimore, MD 2019 On Shapiro's Identities Involving the Elements of Lagrange and Bell Subgroups The 5th International Conference on Riordan Arrays and Related Topics Applied Algebra and Optimization Research Center, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Busan, 2018 Riordan Arrays and their Applications in Combinatorics International Science Symposium Adama Science and Technology University Adama, 2016 On Subsets of Ordered Trees Enumerated by a Subsequence of Fibonacci Numbers Algorithmic and Enumerative Combinatorics Summer School Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) Hagenberg, 2014 On Subsets of Ordered Trees Enumerated by a Subsequence of Fibonacci Numbers Experimental Mathematics Seminar Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ 2013 Awards and Honors Fulbright J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board 01/01/2010 Distinguished Teaching Award Temple University 05/01/1997 Gold Medal for Outstanding Student of the Year Addis Ababa University 07/01/1989 Notable Courses Taught Selected Topics in Algebraic & Enumerative Combinatorics, Advanced Discrete Mathematics, Ordinary Differential Equations, and Logic & Methods of Higher Mathematics. Email 973 720 2574 3050 Hennings Science East By appointment