CSU has new PhD graduate from UPJV Amiens France

Dr. Cheryl Quindao Mentuda, a faculty from the Mathematics, College of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (CMNS) has earned her degree Doctor in Mathematics, from the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Amiens France. Her dissertation is entitled Mathematical Modelling of Pest Invasion and Application to the Fight Against Pest-Borne Disease in the Philippines. Her International Advisor/Director was Dr. Youcef Mammeri of UPJV. Co-thesis Director Dr. Jayrold Arcede of Caraga State University.

Her study was made possible through a CHED-DOST-PHILFRANCE Scholarship; with free tuition, one round-trip airfare and monthly living allowance. She started schooling in France on September 2019-November 2022.

A scholar, immediately upon completion of his/her degree program, shall return to the Philippines to render service physically on a full-time basis in her sending institution, preferably along her field of specialization, for a period equivalent to twice the length of time that she enjoyed the scholarship.

Dr. Mentuda has published the following papers during her study: Optimal Control of a Dengue-Dengvaxia Model: Comparison Between Vaccination and Vector Control, Computational and Mathematical Biophysics, vol. 9, no. 1, 2021, pp. 198-213. https://doi.org/10.1515/cmb-2020-0124 and with J. Arcede, R. Caga-Anan, C. Mentuda and Y. Mammeri, Accounting for symptomatic and asymptomatic in a SEIR-type model of COVID-19, Math. Model. Nat. Phenom., 15 (2020) 34 https://doi.org/10.1051/mmnp/2020021/-OIGE/PICO