Faculty
Sangchul Hwang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Ingram School of Engineering
Email: s_h617@txstate.edu
Phone: (512) 245-3858
Dr. San Hwang has actively been engaged in federally funded environmental engineering and public health projects throughout his 20-year work as a professor at two universities. At Texas State University, Dr. Hwang is PI in a DOE-funded project, co-PI in an EPA-funded project, and senior personnel in a DHHS-funded project. At the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Dr. Hwang was co-PI in a DOE project and was senior personnel in an NSF- and an NIEHS-funded project. Dr. Hwang did two postdocs at US Army ERDC and US EPA. He is a professional engineer licensed in Texas.
Carmen Westerberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Email: cw54@txstate.edu
Phone: (512) 245-3152
Dr. Westerberg is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies how knowledge is reorganized during sleep and how this impacts cognitive abilities such as memory and problem solving in young adults, older adults, and in individuals with memory impairment. Her research employs behavioral measures of cognition and electroencephalographic (EEG) measures of human sleep. She is currently funded by the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience to examine how sleep-dependent memory consolidation may contribute to the extraordinary memory abilities in individuals with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory. She completed her PhD at the University of Minnesota and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University, and she has been a faculty member in the Psychology Department at Texas State since 2011.
Qiang Zhao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
Email: qiang.zhao@txstate.edu
Phone: (512)-245-3737
Dr. Qiang Zhao is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research interests are mainly in survival analysis and longitudinal data analysis. Specifically, he has been developing new statistical methods for treatment comparisons for various types of censored and truncated survival data, estimation of mean functions and treatment comparisons for recurrent event data, and regression analysis for microarray gene expression data using dimension reduction techniques. He has published peer-reviewed research articles and developed statistical software package glrt for treatment comparisons for censored data for practitioners. He has been a thesis advisor for many graduate students and served as a research mentor of several teams in both NSF REU programs and Mathworks summer camps.
Students
Amin Bonny, B.S.
Department of Agricultural Sciences
Email: ske44@txstate.edu
A passionate researcher pursuing his Master’s in Integrated Agricultural Sciences at Texas State University. Currently, he is working as a graduate assistant at the Agricultural Department. With a keen interest in environmental protection and sustainable agricultural practices, he wishes to make a positive impact on food systems. He is poised to become a catalyst for change, contributing to a greener and more sustainable future in the field of agriculture.
Adrianna Hockert, B.A.
Department of Sociology
Email: xfo3@txstate.edu
Hi! My name is Adrianna, and I am an applied sociology major at Texas State University. Through getting involved with the sociology department at Texas State, I have been a research assistant for another research project since January. This will be the second research project I will be assisting with, and I look forward to applying my knowledge of research from my previous experience and from the courses I have taken.