Rate My Professor Asiyeh Rafieipour

Asiyeh Rafieipour is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University, Tempe campus, where she instructs courses in mathematics and data science. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Ohio University in 2024, with a dissertation titled "The Magma Monoid and Related Algebraic Structures," directed by Sergio R. López-Permouth. The dissertation conducts a thorough analysis of the semigroup properties of the magma monoid (M(S), ◁), covering Green’s relations, idempotent elements, and regular elements. It examines one-value and two-value graph magmas as subsemigroups, lifts the operation to graph families, and explores kernel-cokernel decompositions along with collaborations of binary operations. Prior to her doctorate, Rafieipour obtained a B.S. from Persian Gulf University in 2009. During her graduate tenure at Ohio University, she served as President of the AMS Graduate Chapter, engaged with the Center for Ring Theory and its Applications, and received financial support as a graduate student in 2022.