Priya Boindala

Dr. Priya Boindala joined Georgia Gwinnett College in Fall 2010 as an assistant professor of mathematics. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from India. She came to the United States in 2003 to pursue her doctorate in applied mathematics from Tulane University. The process of beginning with a small concept and ending with a mathematical model that mimics real-time experimental observations has always motivated Boindala in her work. As a teacher, she likes to inspire the same excitement and gratification among her students.

She believes... “An introductory course, taught well, can stir students’ interest in further learning,” says Boindala. “An advanced course, well designed and taught, can increase students’ understanding and help them visualize applicability, possible future research avenues or job opportunities.” She believes that a teacher can facilitate such opportunities in the classroom and beyond.

In this regard she continues to work with her colleagues on various projects on campus and is currently involved in two course imbedded and SoTL research projects “A 10-week Research Based Learning Module for Statistics” and “Flipping the Pre-Calculus Classroom,” respectively.

• Doctorate – applied mathematics –Tulane University
• Master’s – mathematics – Osmania University, India
• Bachelor’s – mathematics – University of Madras, India

• Mathematics education
• Course re-design
• Mathematical biology
• Curriculum development

• The method of images for regularized Stokeslets, Journal of Computational Physics, v. 227, Issue 9, pp. 4600 – 4616, 2008.

Presentations

• Brewley, D. N., Boindala, P., Sinclair, J., & Erickson, K. (2013, April) Using ‘Pre-Work’ and Lab Activities to Enhance Student Thinking and Writing in a Pre-Calculus Course – USG Teaching and Learning Conference, Atlanta.
• Boindala, P., Brewley, D. N. & Sinclair, J. (2013, April) Flipping the Pre-Calculus classroom – SST STEM Mini Symposium, Atlanta.
• Sinclair, J., Brewley, D. N., Boindala, P & Whitener, J. (2013, March) Incorporating an Undergraduate Research-based Learning Module in an Introductory Course – SoTL Commons Conference, Savannah, Ga.
• Brewley, D. N., Sinclair, J., Boindala, P & Whitener, J (2013, January). A Research-based Statistics course as a component of 4y-Undegraduate Research Experience. Presentation at Higher Education Teaching and Learning conference, UCF, Fla.
• Sinclair, J., Brewley, D. N., & Boindala, P. (2012, May). Research-based pilot course for statistics as a component of 4y-URE. Presentation at Georgia Gwinnett College School of Science and Technology STEM Conference, Stone Mountain, Ga.
• Biddlecomb, B. A., Atkinson, A. J., Brewley, D. N., & Boindala, P. S. (2012, February). ACCESSing college success in mathematics. Presentation at the 24th Georgia Perimeter College Math Conference, Clarkston, Ga.
• New Minimal Representations of Self Propelled Swimmers In Stokes flow using Regularized Fundamental Solutions. (Poster – ChaChaDays, Sep, 2010).
• New Minimal Representations of Self Propelled Swimmers In Low Reynolds number flow using Regularized Fundamental Solutions. (Talk – SCALA, Feb, 2010).
• Minimal swimmer models using the method of Regularized Stokeslets. (2009, July) AWM poster presentation.

• Recipient of The IBM fellowship award for the year 2007–2008 in computational mathematics.