Gohar Marikyan, Ph.D., Math and Computer Science Professor

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Gohar Marikyan, Ph.D.
Biography

Gohar Marikyan is a Professor and an advisor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Metropolitan Center of Empire State College of the State University of New York. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics (research Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic) and MS degree in Computer Science (research master’s degree in Theory of Algorithms). Dr. Marikyan continues to actively pursue her research in mathematical logic as it applies to computer science. She also is interested in the history of math education as it applies to the development of teaching methodology. The results and findings of her research have been presented in domestic and international conferences and published in a number of scientific peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Marikyan is the 2020 recipient of the Turnab Chair in Mentoring award and the 2012 recipient of the Susan H. Turben Award for Excellence in Scholarship.

Her work with students is in two broad areas: Mathematics and Computer Science. In addition to these areas she also teaches business-related math and computer courses. She conducts studies in groups, one-on-one, on distance, blended, and online at undergraduate and graduate levels. Concurrently, keeping up with advances in technology, Dr. Marikyan continues to create new courses in mathematics and computer science for her students.

Born, brought up, and educated in Armenia, under the Soviet system, Dr. Marikyan has extensively studied the history and ideology of the Soviet Union, and was an eyewitness to its workings and its collapse. After its collapse, she was involved, firsthand, in the development and the operation of the very first nongovernmental organization in the Soviet Union – the Gtutiun Armenian Benevolent Union – as its information systems department head, liaison officer, and publicity director (more...). She won a grant from the United States Information Agency’s Regional Scholar Exchange Program and Freedom Support Act Fellowship to do research in the States as an exchange scholare. Dr. Marikyan is also a certified teacher of religion of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Dr. Gohar Marikyan resides in New York City, in Manhattan. She is currently working on a novel titled "I Wish I could Touch You Again" and on a couple of short stories from the series "Life is Stranger than Fiction." She also continues her research on Anania Shirakatsi’s 7th century manuscript that will culminate in "Anania Shirakatsi's Tvabanutiun: World's Oldest Manuscript On Arithmetic, Part 2." The third book project is a colorful book on Armenian dolls (see www.aaadolls.com).