Keisha Cook

Cook was born in the suburbs just outside Marietta, Georgia.[1] After receiving her bachelor of science from the University of Alabama for applied mathematics she then began work on her Masters of Arts, which she completed in 2016.[2][3]

Cook received her Ph.D. in 2019 for Applied Mathematics and Computational Biology at the University of Alabama under the supervision of Rodger B. Sidje; her thesis concerned parallel stochastic simulation of biochemical reaction systems.[4]

In 2021 Cook was a part of a team that received a $3,799 grant to fund their Math for All conference.[5] Later the same year a $49,951 for the annual Math for All conference was granted to the same team.[6] In 2022 Dr. Cook received a grant from the Clemson University research fellows for $150,000.[7]

Cook has been invited to many talks including a two part talk series at the University of Alabama in 2020, and a collaborative AWM and AMS meeting in 2021.[8][9]

In 2022 Cook was awarded a Mathematically Gifted & Black SIAM Early Career Fellowship.[10]

• Beckman, Erin; Cook, Keisha; Eikmeier, Nicole; Hernandez-Torres, Sarai; Junge, Matthew (2021), "Chase-escape with death on trees", The Annals of Probability, 49 (5): 2530–2547, arXiv:1909.01722, doi:10.1214/21-AOP1514.

• Rayens, Nathan; Cook, Keisha; McKinley, Scott; Payne, Christine (2022), "Transport of lysosomes decreases in the perinuclear region: Insights from changepoint analysis", Biophysical Journal, 121 (7): 1205–1218, doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2022.02.032, PMC 9034247.

• Scott, Sherry; Cook, Keisha; Barley, Kamal (2021), Post-lockdown Dynamics of COVID-19 in New York, Florida, Arizona, and Wisconsin, doi:10.1101/2020.12.28.20248967.