Buliga Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at UPB

Dr. Marius Buliga has been promoted to associate professor of mathematics with tenure at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

“Dr. Buliga is a dedicated and effective teacher,” said Dr. Yong-Zhuo Chen, professor of mathematics and chairman of the Division of Physical and Computational Sciences.

“His research record is of good quality and more than sufficient to support the promotion. He is also a collegial colleague and plays a crucial leadership role by serving as the mathematics program director. I believe he will continue to make valuable contributions to our university in the years ahead.”

Among the classes he has taught since joining the faculty in 2002 are Calculus I and II, Linear Algebra, Operations Research, Abstract Algebra and Numerical Analysis.

Buliga’s area of research includes graph theory and the use of mathematical software and Java applets for teaching math at an undergraduate level.

He is co-author of the book, “The Elementary Catastrophe Theory: A Survey.”

Buliga earned his doctoral degree in mathematics and master of science degree in information science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002. He also holds a master of science degree in computer science from the West University of Timisoara, Romania, which also granted his bachelor of science degree in computer science.

Before coming to Pitt-Oakland in 1997 for his graduate studies, Buliga worked as an assistant professor and taught programming languages at the Polytechnical University of Timisoara for two years. After finishing his doctorate in Pittsburgh, he came to Pitt-Bradford to work as an assistant professor of mathematics.