Irina Nenciu

Irina Nenciu is a Romanian citizen and mathematician born in Bucharest, Romania on November 9, 1978. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has overseen undergraduate and graduate students' research.
Academic career
Nenciu earned her B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest, Romania in 2001 under the advising of Professor Viorel Iftimie. Her undergraduate thesis is titled Semiclassical asymptotics of spectra of second order elliptic differential operators.
* (with D. Bilman) On the evolution of scattering data under perturbations of the Today lattice, Phys. D 330 (2016), 1-16. Nenciu spoke at several international meetings, including the Joint Analysis and Probability Seminar at the University of Wisconsin in 2016 and at the 8th Congress of Romanian Mathematics at Iasi, Romania in 2015, as well as the Midwest Women in Mathematics Symposium at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2013.
Awards and Honors
Nenciu won the UIC Teaching Recognition Program award in 2016 for her documented teaching excellence over the course of three years. While in her graduate program at the California Institute of Technology she was awarded three Scott Russell Johnson prizes: for excellence in first year graduate studies in 2002, for excellence in graduate research and teaching in 2004, and for excellence in graduate research and teaching in 2005. From these awards she was also named a Scott Russell Johnson fellow.

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