Dr. Maria Pia Beccar Varela received her PhD in Mathematics from New Mexico State University in 2011. She also holds MS degrees in Mathematics, Physics and Statistics. She is a Professor of Instruction in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research interests include Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Differential Equations, Stochastic Differential Equations and Machine Learning. Dr. Beccar Varela has 40+ peer-reviewed publications, and her paper "Analytic Methods for Solving Higher Order Ordinary Differential Equations", Mathematics, Vol 7, Issue 9, 826, (2019), has more than 10,000 readings, and the impact of the paper grows weekly; the Research Interest Score is higher than 84% of research items on ResearchGate.  Keywords: applied mathematics; stochastic differential equations; machine learning techniques; mathematical finance; mathematical physics; geophysics