Jillian Stupiansky Raney
Associate Professor
Background
Dr. Stupiansky started teaching at John Carroll in Fall 2022 after spending 8 years as a professor at the University of North Alabama and 1 year at Westminster College in Missouri. She completed her PhD at the University of Florida in 2013, specializing in mathematical biology. During her time as an undergraduate at Birmingham-Southern, a small liberal arts college in Alabama, she majored in math and played golf; she was inducted into the BSC Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. Originally from Lakewood, Ohio, Dr. Stupiansky loves being outside, playing and watching sports, traveling, and spending time with her family.
Areas of Expertise
In line with her research area, Dr. Stupiansky's expertise is in applied mathematics courses. However, she has taught a majority of the mathematics courses that are offered at JCU.
Research Interests
Dr. Stupiansky's primary research area is mathematical biology, in particular the spread of disease. Her experience includes developing mathematical models to represent biological or other scientific phenomena, analyzing these models, and depicting their behavior with numerical simulations. This modeling process can be applied to a wide variety of real-world problems, and she has collaborated with members of numerous other disciplines, including entomologists and plant pathologists, computer scientists, chemists, and geologists, to solve them. The applied mathematical research field is very accessible to undergraduate students, and Dr. Stupiansky has supervised more than a dozen students in their research projects.
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Florida, 2013
M.S. in Mathematics, University of Florida, 2009
B.S. in Mathematics, Birmingham-Southern College, 2007
Courses Taught
- MT 1300 Applied Calculus
- MT 1350 Calculus I
- MT 1360 Calculus II
- MT 2240 Basic Probability
- MT 2340 Differential Equations
- MT 4310 Real Analysis
- MT 4410 Abstract Algebra
- MT 4800 Special Topics: Applied Math
Publications
- J. Stupiansky and J. Stovall, "Modeling the devastation of hemlock trees in the Great Smoky Mountains." (submitted 2025).
- Kimbrough, L. J., Figueroa, C. E., Stupiansky, J. C., Jones, S. R., "Pressure Drop of Respirable Dust Cyclone Samplers," International Journal of Occupational Hygiene, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Vol 11 No 2, pp. 114-125, 2019.
- J. Jerkins and J. Stupiansky, "Mitigating IoT insecurity with inoculation epidemics," Proceedings of the ACMSE 2018 Conference, ACM, pp. 4:1-4:6, 2018.
- K. Jacobsen, J. Stupiansky, and S. Pilyugin, "Mathematical modeling of citrus groves infected by Huanglongbing," Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 10(3): 705-728, 2013.
- D. Schmidt, J. Stupiansky, and B. Steffen, "A depositional and paleontological analysis of a fossil-bearing unit within the Blackwater Draw Formation, Plainview, Texas." (in preparation 2025)
