Faculty

Claudia Abadia, Department Chair

cabadia@peralta.edu
(510)981-2979

BA Biology, UC Santa Cruz
MS Applied Mathematics, CSU East Bay
Classes Taught: Math 1, Math13, Math 3A

Salvador Garcia

Shawn McDougal

smcdougal@peralta.edu

Mike Orkin

Kelly Pernell

kpernell@peralta.edu

Mark Rinker, Ph.D.

Long-time math teacher, loves helping folks learn math, specialty in low-dimensional topology.
Teaches all subjects, but often stats and the calculus / linear algebra / differential equations sequence.

Rick Wing

Classes Taught: Math203, Math 1, Math 13, and Math 16A.

Dmitriy Zhiv

dzhiv@peralta.edu

MS in Electrical Engineering Belarus State Technical University
PHD in Electrical Engineering Belarus State Technical University
MA Mathematics San Francisco State University
Taught all classes in Mathematics at Community College level except Calculus 3 and Differential Equations.
The favorite class to teach is Statistics with probability theory.
Works at BCC full time since January 2008.