Bozenna Pasik-Duncan


Bozenna Pasik-Duncan is a Polish-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas.

Research

Pasik-Duncan's research concerns stochastic control and its applications in communications, economics, and health science. She is also interested in mathematics education, particularly for women in STEM fields.

Education and career

Pasik-Duncan earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Warsaw in 1970. She completed a Ph.D. at the Warsaw School of Economics in 1978, and earned a habilitation there in 1986.
She moved to the University of Kansas mathematics department in 1984,
joining there her husband Tyrone Duncan.

Recognition

She was a recipient of the IEEE's Third Millennium Medal in 2000, and became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001. She was the 2004 AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer, and the 2004 winner of the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education of the Association for Women in Mathematics. She was named a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2014.