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Portrait of Dr. Daniela Ferrero

Dr. Daniela Ferrero

  • Professor at Mathematics, College of Science & Engineering

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Panelist, Panel Discussion on "Personal stories from the path to academia". October 25, 2023 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Algebra Combinatorics Discrete Structures and Applications (Jacodesmath Institute, Turkey). October 2020 - Present.
  • Member, Steering Committee of the AWM Research Network WIGA (Women in Graph Theory and Applications) sponsored by the NSF grant AWM Advances. September 2019 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics. 2015 - Present.

2025

  • Mentor, Mentor for Dr. Christine Lee (tenute-track). 2024 - 2025.

2024

  • Member, Board of Human Resources of AIM (American Institute of Mathematics). November 2020 - December 2024.
  • Member, SIAM Committee of AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics). January 31, 2021 - January 31, 2024.
  • Chair, Committee on the Participation of Women of MAA (Mathematical Association of America). May 1, 2021 - January 31, 2024.
  • Member, AMATYC-AMS-ASA-AWM-IMS-MAA-NAM-NCTM-SIAM SIAM Joint Committee on Participation of Women. May 1, 2021 - January 31, 2024.

2023

  • Member, Graduate Scholarship & Celebrity Classic Scholarship Selection Committee. 2022 - 2023.
  • Member, Lecturer Hiring Committee. 2022 - 2023.
  • Member, Lecturer Review and Renewal Committee. 2022 - 2023.
  • Member, Committee on Committees. 2022 - 2023.

2022

  • Undergraduate Advisor, AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Chapter, Texas State University. 2021 - 2022.
  • Mentor, Associate Professor - Suho Oh. 2021 - 2022.
  • Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee. 2021 - 2022.
  • Member, Budget Committee. 2021 - 2022.
  • Member, Lecturer Hiring Committee. 2021 - 2022.
  • Member, Lecturer Review and Renewal Committee. 2021 - 2022.
  • Member, Committee on Committees. 2021 - 2022.
  • External Evaluator, Seton Hall University. July 2022.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, AWM Workshop at SIAM Annual Meeting. July 2022.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, AWM Workshop at SIAM Annual Meeting 2022. August 2021 - July 2022.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Special Session at the AWM Research Workshop 2022. September 2021 - June 2022.

2021

  • Undergraduate Advisor, AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Chapter, Texas State University. 2020 - 2021.
  • Mentor, Lecturer - Roberto Barrera. 2020 - 2021.
  • Organizer, Women Doing Math Program. 2020 - 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Judge at the AWM Graduate Research Poster Session at SIAM Annual Meeting 2021. July 19, 2021 - July 23, 2021.
  • Faculty Advisor, Texas State Chapter - Association for Women in Mathematics. October 2016 - May 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Judge at the MAA Undergraduate Research Poster Session at Joint Math Meetings 2021. January 6, 2021 - January 9, 2021.

2020

  • Undergraduate Advisor, AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Chapter, Texas State University. 2019 - 2020.
  • Mentor, Lecturer - Roberto Barrera. 2019 - 2020.
  • Organizer, Women Doing Math Program. 2019 - 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discrete Mathematics (Elsevier). December 9, 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discrete Applied Mathematics (Elsevier). December 9, 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics (Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia). December 9, 2020.
  • Panelist, National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences. November 30, 2020 - December 2, 2020.
  • Member of the Board of Human Resources, NSF / AIM (American Institute of Mathematics). November 2019 - November 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, AMS Book Acquisitions (American Mathematical Society). October 10, 2020 - November 23, 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (De Gruyter). May 18, 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discrete Applied Mathematics (Elsevier). March 18, 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discrete Applied Mathematics (Elsevier). March 16, 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Graph Theory (Wiley). February 10, 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (De Gruyter). February 3, 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discrete Applied Mathematics (Elsevier). February 2, 2020.
  • Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Judge, MAA Undergraduate Poster Session, Joint Math Meetings 2020. January 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discrete Applied Mathematics (Elsevier). January 23, 2020.

2019

  • National Science Foundation (NSF), Panelist. March 2019.
  • Undergraduate Advisor, AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Chapter, Texas State University. 2018 - 2019.
  • Mentor, Graduate Instructional Assistant - Jacob Shapiro. 2018 - 2019.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2018 - 2019.
  • Mentor, Lecturer - Roberto Barrera. 2018 - 2019.
  • Organizer, Women Doing Math Program. 2018 - 2019.
  • Referee, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics (Australasian Combinatorial Society). 2016 - 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Parallel Processing Letters (World Scientific). 2014 - 2019.
  • Networks (Wiley), Referee (2 papers). 2011 - 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Computers and Mathematics (Taylor & Francis). 2011 - 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Information Sciences (Elsevier). 2011 - 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Information Processing Letters (Elsevier). 2011 - 2019.
  • Graphs and Combinatorics (Springer), Referee (4 papers). 2010 - 2019.
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (Springer), Referee (11 papers). 2010 - 2019.
  • AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics (Elsevier), Referee (2 papers). 2009 - 2019.
  • Discrete Mathematics (Elsevier), Referee (4 papers). 2006 - 2019.
  • Member of the Board of Human Resources, NSF / AIM (American Institute of Mathematics). November 2018 - November 2019.
  • Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Director of a Tensor Program for Women and Mathematics. March 2018 - June 2019.
  • Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Faculty Advisor for a Student Chapter. October 2016 - May 2019.
  • Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Judge, MAA Undergraduate Poster Session, Joint Math Meetings 2019. January 2019.

2018

  • National Science Foundation (NSF), Reviewer. December 2018.
  • Judge, Texas State University Undergraduate Research Conference, Honors College. 2018.
  • Undergraduate Advisor, AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Chapter, Texas State University. 2017 - 2018.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2017 - 2018.
  • Mentor, Lecturer - Roberto Barrera. 2017 - 2018.
  • Organizer, Women Doing Math Program. 2017 - 2018.
  • Allahabad Mathematical Society, Member of the Editorial Board for the Bulletin of the Allahabad Mathematical Society. 2015 - 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (DeGruyter). 2009 - 2018.
  • Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Editor of the proceedings of the 2017 AWM Research Symposium. May 2017 - December 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discrete Applied Mathematics (Elsevier). 2008 - December 2018.
  • Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Director of a Tensor Program for Women and Mathematics. March 2017 - June 2018.
  • CombinaTexas Conference Series, Chair of the Steering Committee. April 2006 - May 2018.
  • Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Director, Tensor-SUMMA (Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement) Project. March 2017 - March 2018.
  • Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Judge at the Graduate Research Poster Session at the Joint Math Meetings 2018. January 2018.

2017

  • Member, Scholarships Review Panel, Honors College. 2017.
  • Table Host, Math Graduate Open House. 2017.
  • Journal of Interconnection Networks (World Scientific), Referee 1 paper. 2017.
  • Mentor, Lecturer - Williams Grilliette. 2016 - 2017.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2016 - 2017.
  • Organizer, Women Doing Math Program. 2016 - 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, zbMATH. November 2017.
  • International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS), Mini-Symposium Organizer, 2017 ILAS Connections Meeting. July 2017.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Mini-symposium at the 2017 Meeting of the International Linear Algebra Society. July 24, 2017 - July 28, 2017.
  • Program Committee Member, 14th. Int. Symp. on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (ISPAN 2017). June 2017.
  • MAA - Tensor Program Organizer, Women Doing Math (WDM). March 2016 - June 2017.
  • Co-Chair, ISPAN 2017 (Track 2: graphs and interconnection networks). June 21, 2017 - June 23, 2017.
  • Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Director, Tensor-SUMMA (Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement) Project. March 2016 - March 2017.
  • American Mathematical Society (AMS), Special Session Organizer, Joint Mathematics Meetings 2017. January 2017.
  • Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Member of a Special Task Force to Study Double-Blind Refereeing. January 2016 - January 2017.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Special session on research in graphs and matrices at the 2017 Joint Math Meetings. January 4, 2017 - January 7, 2017.

2016

  • Mentor, Lecturer - Williams Grilliette. 2015 - 2016.
  • Member, Computer Science Liaison Committee. 2015 - 2016.
  • Member, Student Affairs Committee. 2015 - 2016.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2015 - 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, zbMATH (European Mathematical Society). 2015 - 2016.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Editorial Board of The American Mathematical Monthly (MAA). January 2011 - December 2016.
  • Advisory Committee Member, Int. Conf. on Current Trends in Graph Theory and Computation. September 2016.
  • Mini-Symposium Organizer, 2016 SIAM Discrete Math Meeting. June 2016.
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Mini-Symposium Organizer, 2016 SIAM Discrete Math Meeting. June 2016.

2015

  • Member, Scholarships Review Panel, Honors College. 2015.
  • Team Leader, Family Campaign, Texas State University. 2015.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2014 - 2015.
  • Member, Computer Science Liaison Committee. 2014 - 2015.
  • Tenure & Promotion External Reviewer, Holon Institute of Technology. December 6, 2015 - December 22, 2015.

2014

  • Member, Scholarships Review Panel, Honors College. 2014.
  • Mentor, Lecturer - Youngsoo Seol. 2014.
  • Computers & Mathematics with Applications (Elsevier), Referee 1 paper. 2014.
  • Member, Suspension Appeals Committee, Faculty Senate. 2013 - 2014.
  • Member, Curriculum Committee. 2013 - 2014.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2013 - 2014.
  • Member, Program and Curriculum Committee. 2013 - 2014.
  • Member, Computer Science Liaison Committee. 2013 - 2014.
  • Mentor, Graduate Instructional Assistant - Abby Mask. 2013 - 2014.
  • Program Committee Member, International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics. December 2014.

2013

  • University Mentor, HLSAMP Undergraduate Student - Edward Cruz-Medrano. 2013.
  • Member, Scholarships Review Panel, Honors College. 2013.
  • Mentor, Lecturer - Youngsoo Seol. 2013.
  • International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (Taylor & Francis), Referee 1 paper. 2013.
  • Croatica Chemica Acta (Croatian Chemical Society), Referee 1 paper. 2013.
  • Liaison, Math Department Liaison to the Faculty Senate. 2012 - 2013.
  • Member, Suspension Appeals Committee, Faculty Senate. 2012 - 2013.
  • Liaison, Math Department Liaison, Faculty Senate. 2012 - 2013.
  • Mentor, Graduate Instructional Assistant - Abby Mask. 2012 - 2013.
  • Member, Computer Science Liaison Committee. 2012 - 2013.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2012 - 2013.
  • Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee. 2012 - 2013.
  • Member, Program and Curriculum Committee. 2012 - 2013.
  • Mentor, Doctoral Instructional Assistant - Randy Davila. 2012 - 2013.
  • Mentor, Doctoral Teaching Assistant - Sarah Hanusch. 2012 - 2013.
  • Mentor, Lecturer - Jacob Manske. 2012 - 2013.
  • Member, Organizing Committee, CombinaTexas Conference. 2003 - 2013.
  • Special Session Organizer, 1st. Mathematical Congress of The Americas. August 2013.
  • Participant, Department booth in the Employment Center at the JMM. January 2013.

2012

  • Presenter, Math Graduate Open House. 2012.
  • University Mentor, HLSAMP Undergraduate Student - Edward Cruz-Medrano. 2012.
  • Mentor, Graduate Instructional Assistant - Brittany Webre. 2012.
  • Presenter, Meet the Professor Night, Honors College. 2012.
  • Table Host, Math Graduate Open House. 2012.
  • Member, Suspension Appeals Committee, Faculty Senate. 2011 - 2012.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2011 - 2012.
  • Member, Curriculum Committee. 2011 - 2012.
  • Member, Organizing Committee, Int. Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks (ISPAN). December 2012.
  • Other, Member of the Organizing Committee of CombinaTexas 2012. April 21, 2012 - April 22, 2012.

2011

  • Judge, Texas State University Undergraduate Research Conference, Honors College. 2011.
  • Mentor, Graduate Instructional Assistant - Grant DeWitt. 2011.
  • Presenter, Meet the Professor Night, Honors College. 2011.
  • Table Host, Math Graduate Open House. 2011.
  • Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications (Elsevier), Referee 1 paper. 2011.
  • Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing (Charles Babbage Research Centre), Referee 1 paper. 2011.
  • Academic Director, MOU between Texas State University & Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy). 2010 - 2011.
  • Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee. 2010 - 2011.
  • Member, Computer Science Liaison Committee. 2010 - 2011.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2010 - 2011.
  • Other, Member of the Organizing Conference for CombinaTexas 2011. April 16, 2011 - April 17, 2011.

2010

  • Member, Durenberger Scholarships Selection Committee. 2010.
  • Chair, Graduate Scholarship & Celebrity Classic Scholarship Selection Committee. 2009 - 2010.
  • Member, Handbook Committee, Faculty Senate. 2009 - 2010.
  • Academic Director, MOU between Texas State University & Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy). 2009 - 2010.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2009 - 2010.
  • American Mathematical Society (AMS), Special Session Organizer, AMS Spring Meeting Eastern Section, New Jersey Institute of Technology. May 2010.

2009

  • Member, Durenberger Scholarships Selection Committee. 2009.
  • Reviewer / Referee, FONDECYT. 2009.
  • Chair, Graduate Scholarship & Celebrity Classic Scholarship Selection Committee. 2008 - 2009.
  • Undergraduate Advisor, Sigma Alpha Lambda: National Leadership and Honors Organization Chapter, Texas State University. 2008 - 2009.
  • Academic Director, MOU between Texas State University & Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy). 2008 - 2009.
  • Mentor, Graduate Instructional Assistant - Erin Lunsford. 2008 - 2009.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2008 - 2009.
  • Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee. 2004 - 2009.

2008

  • Member, Durenberger Scholarships Selection Committee. 2008.
  • Mathematica Bohemica (Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences), Referee 1 paper. 2008.
  • Chair, Graduate Scholarship & Celebrity Classic Scholarship Selection Committee. 2007 - 2008.
  • Member, Tenure & Promotion Policy Review Special Task Force. 2007 - 2008.
  • Member, Insurance Committee, Faculty Senate. 2007 - 2008.
  • Member, Ad-hoc Committee on Tenure and Promotion Policy. 2007 - 2008.
  • Member, Visiting Scholars Committee. 2007 - 2008.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2007 - 2008.

2007

  • Member, Durenberger Scholarships Selection Committee. 2007.
  • University Mentor, HLSAMP Undergraduate Student - Gabriela Perez. 2007.
  • Judge, Honors Thesis Forum, Honors College. 2007.
  • Mentor, Graduate Instructional Assistant - Brandon Langenberg. 2007.
  • Presenter, Meet the Professor Night, Honors College. 2007.
  • Speaker, Meeting of Italian Researchers in the U.S. 2007.
  • Chair, Graduate Scholarship & Celebrity Classic Scholarship Selection Committee. 2006 - 2007.
  • Member, Insurance Committee, Faculty Senate. 2006 - 2007.
  • Member, Library Committee. 2006 - 2007.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, 4th. International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations. April 2, 2007 - April 4, 2007.

2006

  • Member, Durenberger Scholarships Selection Committee. 2006.
  • Member, Insurance Committee, Faculty Senate. 2005 - 2006.
  • Member, Colloquium Committee. 2005 - 2006.
  • Presenter, Workshop on Instructional Technology, Instructional Technology Support (ITS), Texas State University. July 2006.

2005

  • University Mentor, HLSAMP Undergraduate Student - Israel Cabello. 2005.
  • Member, Insurance Committee, Faculty Senate. 2004 - 2005.
  • Member, Special Committee for Institutional Repository, Faculty Senate. 2004 - 2005.
  • Chair, Colloquium Committee. 2004 - 2005.
  • Member, Committee on Committees. 2004 - 2005.
  • Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee. 2004 - 2005.

2004

  • University Mentor, HLSAMP Undergraduate Student - Israel Cabello. 2004.
  • University Mentor, HLSAMP Undergraduate Student - Diana Ramirez. 2004.
  • Mentor, Graduate Instructional Assistant - Robert Proctor. 2004.
  • Chair, Colloquium Committee. 2003 - 2004.
  • Mentor, Siemens Foundation annual Science and Technology Competition. 2001 - 2004.
  • Panelist, Intercultural Communication Week’04, Department of Communication Studies. March 2004.

2003

  • University Mentor, HLSAMP Undergraduate Student - Vanessa Villa. 2003.
  • Mentor, Graduate Instructional Assistant - Diana Ramirez. 2003.
  • Mentor, Undergraduate Instructional Assistant - Lourdes Pajo. 2002 - 2003.
  • Member, Colloquium Committee. 2002 - 2003.
  • Panelist, Intercultural Communication Week’03, Department of Communication Studies. March 2003.

2002

  • Member, Colloquium Committee. 2001 - 2002.
  • Organizer, Discrete Math Seminar. September 2001 - May 2002.

2001

  • Organizer, Discrete Math Seminar. October 2000 - April 2001.