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Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
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| Born |
Bożenna Janina Pasik
1947 (age 77–78) |
| Nationality | Polish-American |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw, Main School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw |
| Spouse(s) | Tyrone Duncan |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Kansas |
| Thesis | (1978) |
Bozenna Janina Pasik-Duncan (born 1947) 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 attended high school in Radom. She 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 (also a University of Kansas mathematician).
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. Pasik-Duncan was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the Class of 2021 "for her decades of contributions: as a founder and sustainer of the Women in Control Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society; as the chair of IFAC’s Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion; and via other programs and activities to support and encourage women and girls in mathematics and engineering".
