Faculty and Staff

BA, UC Los Angeles, Mathematics. 1984. MA, UC Santa Cruz, Mathematics. 1986. US Naval Officer, 1986-1990. Full-time Faculty at Chabot College since 1992.

My name is Doris Hanhan. I completed my B.S. in Math and Computer Science at CSU Hayward and M.S. in Math from UC Santa Cruz. I've been teaching at Chabot for over 15 years. In my spare time, just kidding...I don't have any! I have two boys that keep me quite busy. They are currently in middle school and active in Cross Country, Track and Field and Basketball. I am an assistant coach to their running teams. I was born in Jordan and speak Arabic and some Spanish.

I am the head of the Math Department here at Chabot College. I taught at Arroyo High School in San Lorenzo back in the early 2000s before I came to Chabot. Besides math, I also taught Advanced Placement Computer Science in public school. In my previous life before teaching, I was a programmer analyst in a management information systems department at a Silicon Valley company, which has since been acquired by Intel. I have a broad basic science background; I earned college credit in Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology while in high school by passing the Advanced Placement Examinations. I love making connections between disciplines, so feel free to talk to me about the math in your other classes, in both the natural and social science! When I am not engaged in mathematical and scientific activities, I like to swim, hike, and dance. I enjoy partner social dancing (mostly country western two-step) and belong to an American clogging group and an English Morris dance group.

Born in Moscow Educated in Kiev State University with MS in statistics, PhD in Mathematics (Kiev State Institute of Mathematics) Stochastic Integrals associated with non-linear Partial Differential Equations. Employment: 1979-1991 Kiev Polytechnic University, assistant Professor, associate Professor 1991-1999 Madrid: Univercidad Autonoma de Madrid Invited Professor 1999 - now College Instructor.