• B.S., Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaounde I
• High School Teacher's Diploma I, Mathematics
   Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Yaounde I
• M.S., Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaounde I
• High School Teacher's Diploma II,Mathematics
  Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Yaounde I
• Postgraduate Diploma, Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaounde I
• the ICTP Postgraduate diploma, Mathematics, The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy
• M.S. in Statistics, University of Georgia
• Doctor of Philosophy, Mathematics (expected)
  University of Georgia

• Join UNESCO/Italian Government scholarhip, The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
• Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Mathematics, University of Georgia.
• William Armor Wills Memorial Scholarship Award, University of Georgia.
• Graduate School Research Assistantship Award, University of Georgia.
• B.J. Ball Scholarship Award for Academic Excellence, University of Georgia.
• Inducted into the National Statistical Honorary Society (ΜΣΡ), University of Georgia.

Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations, Splines and Applications, Image Processing, Mathematical Ecology, Computational Biology, and Statistics

• L. Matamba, C. Kazanci, J.R. Schramski, M. Blessing, P. Alexander, and B.C. Patten, Throughflow analysis: A stochastic approach, Ecological Modelling 220(2009), no. 22, 3174 - 3181.
• C. Kazanci, L. Matamba, and E.W. Tollner, Cycling in ecosystems: An individual based approach, Ecological Modelling 220 (2009), no. 21, 2908 - 2914.
•  Julie Rushmore, Leopold Matamba, Becky Stumpf, and Sonia Altizer, Behavioral
  determinants of pathogen transmission in wild chimpanzees, In preparation.
•  Ming-Jun Lai and Leopold Matamba Messi, A new projected-gradient algorithm
  for total variation based image denoising, submitted 2011.

• Member the VRG group on Mathematical Epidemiology
• Member of the VRG groups on Algebraic Graph Theory
• Intern, department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Univ. of Georgia.
  The research initiated during this internship resulted in two papers.
  Supervisor: Dr. Caner Kazanci.
• Member of the VRG group on Tropical Geometry
• Member of the VRG group on Compressive Sensing
• Intern, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia.
  Supervisor: Dr. Maor Bar-peled.
• Member of the VRG group on low-rank matrix approximation.

• American Mathematical Society
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Office: Boyd 524
Tel: 706-542-5807
Fax: 706-542-5907
Email: lmatamba@math.uga.edu