Dr. Aihua W. Wood is the equity advisor for AFIT, where she is a professor of mathematics. As AFIT’s equity advisor, Dr. Wood facilitates bias-free faculty searches; reviews annual scorecard data for the institution, alerting the chair and/or dean of inequities based on salary, space and professional development; and implements equity programming aligned with the unique diversity needs of AFIT.

Dr. Wood has served on a number of elective offices of the Faculty Council and is currently the chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics Promotion and Tenure Committee Chairperson. Dr. Wood’s research interests include partial differential equations, electromagnetic wave propagation, and finite element analysis. Over her academic career, she has presented over 50 invited talks at conferences/ workshops and colloquia, published 40 archival journal articles, and brought in approximately $1M in research funding. She has guided a number of theses to completion and funded several postdoctoral associates.

Aihua Wood received her B.S. from Beijing University and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in mathematics. She served as an Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School for three years and the Pennsylvania State University at Erie for one year before joining the faculty at the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1994. She has been a Professor of Mathematics since 2002. In her hometown of Qingdao, China, she has established an Aihua Scholarship Fund with the Ocean University of China to promote excellence in mathematics.