Applied & Computational Mathematics
Applied and computational mathematics includes mathematics with a wide range of applications across the sciences. Specific research areas can be found in faculty descriptions below.
Researcher Advisors for Applied & Computational Mathematics
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Nicole Abaid , bioDr. Abaid's research focuses on networked dynamical systems. She studies diverse biological systems, ranging from animal groups to brain networks, to inspire novel results in mathematical modeling and control.
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Slimane Adjerid , bioProfessor Adjerid conducts research on developing new discontinuous finite element methods for solving partial differential equations.
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Daniel Appelö , bioProfessor Daniel Appelö is a numerical analyst with an interest in computational techniques for solving differential equations fast and accurately. He is excited about applications in acoustics, electromagnetics, fluids, and more recently in quantum computing.
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Christopher Beattie , bioThe principal research interests of Professor Beattie are in the areas of scientific computing and large scale computational linear algebra, with an emphasis on iterative Krylov methods.
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Jeff Borggaard , bioProfessor Borggaard studies the design and control of fluids. This includes computational fluid dynamics, control theory, optimization, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty quantification, and reduced-order models. In each case, the application of these research areas to partial differential equations that describe fluids are of interest.
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John Burns , bioProfessor Burns' current research is focused on computational methods for modeling, control, estimation and optimization of complex systems where spatially distributed information is essential. This includes systems modeled by partial and delay differential equations. Recent applications include modeling and control of thermal fluids, design and thermal management systems and optimization of mobile sensor networks.
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Paul Cazeaux , bioProfessor Cazeaux's research deals with multiscale phenomena in mathematical physics and biology, with recent applications in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics (2D materials).
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Yingda Cheng , bioProfessor Cheng's research areas are in scientific computing, applied mathematics and data-driven modeling and computation. She develops numerical methods for partial differential equations, particularly those in higher dimensional space. The application area of Professor Cheng's research includes fusion energy and semiconductor device modeling, to name a few.
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Lauren M. Childs , bioProfessor Childs develops and analyzes mathematical and computational models to examine biologically-motivated questions.
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Giuseppe Cotardo , bioDr. Cotardo’s research interest is in algebraic coding theory, with a particular focus on algebra, geometry, combinatorics, and their applications to the invariant theory of rank-metric codes. He is also actively working on network communication and quantum error correction.
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Eric de Sturler , bioProfessor de Sturler's research focuses on numerical analysis for large-scale computational problems with an emphasis on fast solvers for linear and nonlinear systems, inverse problems and parameter estimation, optimization, and design, including iterative solvers and numerical linear algebra, randomization, stochastic methods, model reduction, and high performance computing with applications in computational mechanics, such structural optimization and computational fluid dynamics, tomography and image reconstruction, big data, computational physics, biology, and computer graphics.
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Mark Embree , bioCMDA Program Director Professor Embree studies numerical linear algebra and spectral theory, with particular interest in eigenvalue computations for nonsymmetric matrices and transient behavior of dynamical systems.
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Ionut-Gabriel Farcas , bioProfessor Farcaș's research bridges scientific computing, high-performance computing, and computational physics. His work focuses on scientific machine learning, reduced and surrogate modeling, uncertainty quantification, and sparse grid and multi-fidelity methods. These computational techniques are designed to tackle complex, large-scale numerical simulations, such as those arising in turbulent transport in fusion devices or combustion processes in rocket engines.
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Serkan Gugercin , bioProfessor Gugercin studies computational mathematics, numerical analysis, and systems and control theory with a focus on data-driven modeling and model reduction of large-scale dynamical systems with applications to inverse problems, structural dynamics, material design, and flow control.
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Traian Iliescu , bioAt the core of Professor Iliescu's research program is his vision of using both mathematics and computations to provide new knowledge on turbulent fluid flows dominated by coherent structures and create models with practical impact in engineering, climate modeling, and medicine. The ultimate goal of his research program is to transform turbulence modeling as we know it today and use mathematics, computations, physics, and data to discover general laws of turbulent fluid flows.
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Tao Lin , bioProfessor Tao Lin's main research interest is the numerical analysis on computational methods related with differential equations. He designs new numerical methods and carry out their convergence analysis. His recent research focuses on immersed finite element (IFE) methods that can solve interface problems of partial differential equation with interface independent meshes. He is also working on applying IFE methods to interface inverse problems via the shape optimization methodology.
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Honghu Liu , bioProfessor Liu's research focuses on the design of effective low-dimensional reduced models for nonlinear deterministic and stochastic PDEs as well as DDEs. Applications to classical and geophysical fluid dynamics are actively pursued. Particular problems that are addressed include bifurcation analysis, phase transition, surrogate systems for optimal control, and stochastic closures for turbulence.
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Agnieszka Miedlar , bioProfessor Miedlar conducts research in numerical analysis and scientific computing, with a focus on iterative solvers for large-scale linear systems and eigenvalue problems, and adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs).
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Mirjeta Pasha , bioDr. Pasha is an Assistant Professor with research interests on high dimensional (tensor) data analysis, regularization for inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, and high-performance computing. She develops computationally efficient methods and algorithms to solve large-scale problems that arise from an extensive list of applications in data science, medicine, and engineering.
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Michael A. Robert , bioProfessor Robert builds and analyzes mathematical models to study biological phenomena. He is particularly interested in developing and exploring models to better understand how ecological, meteorological, anthropogenic, and evolutionary processes impact the emergence, spread, and control of infectious diseases.
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Johann Rudi , bioProfessor Johann Rudi's research is interdisciplinary and spans large-scale parallel iterative methods for nonlinear and linear systems, development and implementation of algorithms for high-performance computing (HPC) platforms, computational aspects of inverse problems, and quantification of uncertainties in the inferred parameters.
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Shu-Ming Sun , bioProfessor Sun's research interests include the mathematical theory of fluid mechanics, the theory of partial differential equations, and applied nonlinear analysis.
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Peter Wapperom , bioProfessor Wapperom conducts research in computational fluid dynamics of complex fluids. This involves the mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of the flow of polymeric liquids and fluids reinforced with rigid particles.
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Tim Warburton , bioProfessor Warburton holds the John K. Costain Chair in the College of Science at Virginia Tech and is a faculty member of both the Department of Mathematics and the Computational Modeling and Data Analytics program. His research interests include developing new parallel algorithms and methods that are used to solve PDE based physical modes on the largest supercomputers.
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Steffen Werner , bioProfessor Werner conducts research at the intersection of scientific computing and numerical linear algebra with particular focus on scientific machine learning, model order reduction, data-driven modeling, optimization and control of partial differential equations, matrix equations and mathematical software development.
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Pengtao Yue , bioProfessor Yue works on the numerical simulation of flow problems with moving boundaries and complex rheology, including multiphase flow, viscoelastic fluids, dynamic wetting, and phase change phenomena.
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Lizette Zietsman , bioProfessor Zietsman's research area covers the development and analysis of fundamental numerical algorithms arising in the study of stability, control and estimation of distributed parameter systems typical in structural control, fluid flow control, and thermal systems.
Researchers of Applied & Computational Mathematics
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Bio ItemAndrea Carracedo Rodriguez , bio
Dr. Carracedo Rodriguez conducts research in numerical analysis, with a focus on efficiently building approximations to dynamical systems from data or via model reduction.
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Eric Ufferman , bioCollegiate Assistant Professor Ufferman teaches classes in both Computational Modeling and Data Analytics and Discrete Mathematics.
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Gazi Mahmud Alam , bioDr. Alam's research interests are focused on the development of methods and algorithms for solving control and inverse problems on quantum graphs.
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Jason R. Wilson , bioCollegiate Assistant Professor Wilson teaches Math and CMDA classes. His research interests include large scale linear algebra, high performance computing, and the mathematical foundations of data science.
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Jiuhua Hu , bioMy research interests are centered on numerical analysis and scientific computing, with a primary focus on developing fast and efficient numerical methods for differential equations.
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John Taylor Burleson , bioInstructor Burleson is currently engaged with teaching with an interest in computational fluid dynamics.
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Jorge Reyes , bioDr. Reyes' research involves the theoretical and computational study of fluid dynamics primarily based on the Navier-Stokes equations (NSE). These studies consist of the finite element analysis of numerical solutions for full-order models and the development of corresponding reduced order models (ROMs).
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Nilton Garcia Hilares , bioDr. Hilares' research interests lie in computational and applied linear algebra.
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Petar Mlinarić , bioDr. Mlinarić conducts research in the field of model order reduction, in particular, structure-preserving and optimal methods.
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Ping-Hsuan Tsai , bioI am a postdoctoral associate working on developing data-driven reduced-order models for turbulent heat transfer applications. Particularly, focusing on developing stabilization strategies and error indicators for turbulent flows to be used in engineering routine and design analysis. In addition to turbulent flows, plasma physics is another application that I have been working on recently.
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Shixu Meng , bioDr. Meng is interested in numerical analysis, applied analysis, scientific computing and machine learning, with applications to solving PDEs and inverse problems.
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Turker Topcu , bioDr. Topcu works in the field of computational science. His research involves developing algorithms and codes to solve partial and ordinary differential equations to simulate quantum dynamical systems.
Recently Retired Faculty
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