Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Princeton Univ., 1991
M.A. in Mathematics, Princeton Univ., 1988
A.B. in Mathematics, Princeton Univ., 1987

Distinguished Professor (above scale), UCLA 2018-present
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (zero time appointment), UCLA 2018-present
Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity, UCLA 2012-present
Professor of Mathematics, UCLA, 2003-present
Director of Applied Mathematics, UCLA, 2005-present
Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Duke University, 1999-2004
Director, VIGRE program, Duke University 2000-2003
Director, Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke Univ., 1999-2000
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Duke University 1998-9
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Duke University, 1995-1998
Maria Geoppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar, Argonne National Laboratory, 1995-6
L.E. Dickson Instructor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1991-5

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,
Thin Films and Moving Contact Lines,
Fluid Dynamics,
Image Processing,
Swarming dynamics,
High dimensional data analysis

ONR Graduate Fellowship 1987-91
Bell Labs GRPW Grant 1987
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 1991-4
Sloan Research Fellowship 1995
Maria Geoppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar-Argonne National Lab. 1995-6
ONR Young Investigator Award 1996
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 1996
Sonia Kovalevsky Prize and Lecture, 2009
SIAM Fellow, 2010
Elected American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
Named Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity, UCLA 2012
Inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa (honorary degree), Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, 2014
SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, 2014, with Arjuna Flenner, for Diffuse interface models on graphs for classification of high dimensional data, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 10(3), pp. 1090-1118, 2012.
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2015
Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, 2016
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2016
Awarded Simons Math + X Investigator award, 2017
Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, 2018
Awarded SIAM Kleinman Prize, 2019

Click here for a list of publications and preprints with some hypertext links.

SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science, Plenary talk, June 2020
Caltech Keynote Talk "Meeting of the Minds" symposium, May 18, 2019
Invited talk, International Congress of Mathematicians, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 6, 2018
Erdos Lecture of the American Math Society, Vanderbilt Univ., April 14, 2018
Amundson Lectures, Univ. of Houston, April 10-12, 2018
Plenary talk, Annual Meeting of the German Math Society, Paderborn, Germany, March 5, 2018
Plenary talk, The 2017 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA), Cancun, Dec 5, 2017
Plenary Lecture, Summer Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, June 27, 2016
The Chelluri Lecture, Department of Mathematics, Cornell Univ., April 2016
Public Lecture, The British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Oxford, UK, April 2016
The Moody Lecture, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA, March 2016
The Norbert Wiener Colloquium, Univ. of Maryland, February 2016
Boeing Distinguished Colloquium, Univ of Washington, Seattle, January 2016
Plenary Talk at SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT 2015
The 2015 Rouse Ball Lecture, Univ. of Cambridge, UK, April 24, 2015
2015 Karl Menger Lecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, March 30, 2015
21st Annual Arne Magnus Lecture Series at Colorado State University Department of Mathematics, March 23-24, 2015
Keynote Talk, EMMCVPR (Energy Miniization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Jan 13, 2015
Public Lecture, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics at Brown University, Nov. 20, 2014
Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer 2014-16
Distinguished Colloquium in Interdisciplinary and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, September 23, 2014
Plenary talk, International Conference on Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge UK, June 26, 2014
Invited plenary talk, 8th European Conference on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems, Gaeta Italy, May 29, 2014
Plenary Talk, Mathematics in a Complex World, Seminario Matematico e Fisico Symposium, On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano, Milan Italy, Feb. 28, 2013
Plenary Talk, First International Conference on Differential Equations, Georgia Tech, March 18, 2013
T.G. Ostrom Lecture, Washington State University, March 27, 2013
Beatrice Yormack Distinguished Lecture Stanford University, April 18, 2013
Plenary Talk, Second Pacific Rim Mathematical Association Congress, June 25, 2013, Shanghai China
The Reese Prosser Memorial Lecture, Dartmouth University Department of Mathematics, Oct. 4, 2012
Plenary Talk, European Science Foundation Conference on Applied Partial Differential Equations in Physics, Biology and Social Sciences: Classical and Modern Perspectives, Barcelona, Sept 2-7, 2012
Plenary Talk, International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics (ICOMAS), University of Memphis, May 16, 2012
Plenary Talk, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 26, 2012
Plenary Talk, The 9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications , July 2, 2012
Cantrell Lectures, Univ. of Georgia Mathematics Department, April 2012
Grosswald Lectures, Temple University Mathematics Department, April 2012
Principal Lecturer, Prarie Analysis Seminar 2011, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University
Plenary talk, AWM 40th Anniversary Conference, ICERM, Brown University, September 18, 2011
Invited one hour presentation, 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Vancouver BC, July 19, 2011
Keynote Talk, 7th East Asian SIAM Meeting, Waseda University, Kitakyushu Campus, Japan, June 29, 2011
Plenary Talk, Australia New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society, Annual Meeting, Adelaide Australia, February 2011
Invited AMS Address, Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA January 2010
Invited Talk, Dynamics Days, Chapel Hill, NC January 2011
Invited Talk, American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA Nov. 2010
Congressional Briefing, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC, Hosted by the American Mathematical Society, Oct. 12, 2010
Allman Family Public Lecture, Southern Methodist University, Sept. 24, 2010
London Taught Course Center, University College London, Lecture Series, Sept. 8-9, 2010
Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Distinguised Lecture, Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2, 2010
Plenary Talk, Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting on Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations, DSPDEs'10, June 1, 2010 Barcelona, Spain
Brown University, Mathematics Department, Distinguished Lecture Series, March 11-12, 2010
China Lake Distinguished Speakers Colloquium Series, China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center, Ridgecrest, CA, Feb 2, 2010
Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture, SIAM Annual Meeting, Denver, July 6, 2009.
Marschak Colloquium, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Feb. 1 2008
Plenary talk, European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, London, July 1, 2008.
Plenary talk, SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves, Rome, Italy, July 22, 2008
Distinguished Lecture, Industrial Mathematics Institute, Univ. of South Carolina, January 23, 2007
Third Virginia L. Chatelain Memorial Lecture, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, March 27, 2007
UCLA Science Faculty Research Colloquium, March 23, 2006
Plenary talk, SIAM Annual Meeting (Joint with APDE), July 10, 2006, Boston, MA
January 5, 2005 Joint AMS-MAA invited address, Annual meetings of the AMS, MAA, SIAM, Atlanta
October 21, 2002, MPS Distinguished Lecture, National Science Foundation, Washington DC
July 8, 2002, Invited topical lecture, SIAM 50th Anniversary Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
October 27, 2001, Keynote Address, Sonia Kovalevsky High School Math Day, New College, Sarasota, FL
July 13, 2001, NATO Advance Study Institute, Univ. of Montreal, Quebec CANADA Four lectures on thin films.
May 7, 2001, two plenary lectures: "Dynamics of phase boundaries and nonclassical waves", Kirchzarten(Schwarzwald), Germany
Plenary talk, Third SIAM Meeting on Materials Science, 2000
Invited Address, AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, San Antonio, 1999

Click here for a links to all invited talks.

Scientific Advisory Committee, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute 2012-2016
Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Brown University, 2010-2014
Scientific Advisory Board, Banff International Research Station, 2009-2011
Board of Trustees, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 2006-2010
SIAM Council Member, 2006-2008
Editorial Board, Applied Mathematics Letters, 2012-present
Editorial Board SIAM J. Math. Analysis, 2005-present
Editorial Board, SIAM Review, 2004-2010
Editorial Board, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (SIAM Journal), 2005-present
Editorial Board, Interfaces and Free Boundaries, 2003-2022
Editorial Board, Applied Mathematics Research Express, 2003-2014
Editorial Board, Nonlinearity, 2006-2019
Editorial Board, Comm. Math. Sci., 2009-present
Editorial Board, M3AS, 2010-2015
Editorial Board, Advances in Differential Equations, 2010-2014
Editorial Board, J. Nonlinear Science, 2012-2022
Editorial Board, SIAM J. Imaging Science, 2014-2018
Editorial Board, J. AMS, 2014-2022

Liya Zhornitskaya Ph.D. 1999, Duke University (postdoc at Univ. Bonn and Univ. Utah 1999-2003)
Edward Welsh, Ph. D. 2003, Duke University, Assoc. Prof. with Tenure at Westfield State College, MA
John Greer, Ph. D. 2003, Duke University, NSF Postdoc, Courant Institute (2004-7), currently employed by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC
Yao-Li Chuang, Ph. D. in Physics, 2006, Duke University, CSU Northridge
Alan Gillette, Ph. D. 2006, UCLA, entrepreneur, Heaviside Wealth Management
Yuan Huang, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2006, UCLA, currently employed in the defense industry in Los Angeles
Hsiang-Wei Lu, Ph. D. 2007, UCLA Mechanical Engineering, co-advised with CJ Kim, current joint postdoc between MIT and Harvey Mudd.
Benjamin Cook, Ph. D. 2007, UCLA, currently employed by Arete, Washington, DC
Julia Dobrosotskaya, Ph. D. 2009, UCLA, tenure track Case Western Reserve
David Hermina Martinez, MSE in EE, 2010, UCLA, currently employed at Raytheon, El Segundo
Yanghong Huang, Ph. D. 2010, UCLA, Chapman Fellow, Imperial College London Dept. of Mathematics
Yifei Lou, Ph. D. 2010, UCLA, Asst. Prof. tenure track, UT Dallas
Wangyi Liu, Ph. D. 2011, UCLA, postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2011-13), Google (2013-)
Jacob Bedrossian, PhD 2011, UCLA, NSF Postdoc Courant Institute; Asst. Prof. (tenure Track) Univ. Maryland College Park
Alexander Chen, Ph. D. 2011, UCLA, Asst. Prof. CSU Dominguez Hills
Wenhua Gao, Ph. D. 2011, UCLA, Bloomberg LLC
Nancy Rodriguez, Ph. D 2011, UCLA, NSF Postdoc Stanford; Asst. Prof. (tenure track) UC Boulder
Matthew Mata, Ph. D. 2011, UCLA, Postdoc UC Santa Barbara
Rachel Hegemann, PhD 2012, UCLA, Fulbright Fellow at Univ. Muenster
Erik Lewis, Ph. D. 2012, UCLA, Data Scientist, Kontagent
Laura Smith, Ph. D. 2012, UCLA, Assoc. Prof. (tenure) CSU Fullerton
James von Brecht, PhD 2012, UCLA, Asst. Prof. (tenure track) CSU Long Beach
Hui Sun, PhD 2013, UCLA, Asst. Prof. (tenure track) CSU Long Beach
Tijana Kostic PhD, 2013, UCLA, Microsoft
Alexey Stomakhin PhD (joint with J. Teran), 2013, UCLA, Disney Animation
Joseph Zipkin PhD, 2014, UCLA, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Alan Mackey PhD, 2015, UCLA, Google CA
Konstantin Dragomiretskiy, PhD, UCLA, 2015, Morgan Stanley
Huiyi Hu, PhD 2015, Google CA
Ekaterina Merkurjev, PhD, UCLA, 2015, UCSD - UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow; Asst. Prof. Michigan State U.
Joseph Woodworth, PhD, UCLA 2016, Google CA
Charlie Marshak, PhD (joint with M. Porter), UCLA 2017, Jet Propulsion Lab
Travis Meyer, PhD, UCLA 2017, industry
Jeffrey Wong, PhD, UCLA 2017, Duke Univ., Postdoc
Zhaoyi Meng, PhD, UCLA 2017, Google CA
Xiyang Luo, PhD, UCLA 2018, Google CA
Fangbo Zhang, PhD, UCLA 2018, Facebook CA
Zach Boyd, PhD, UCLA 2018, UNC Chapel Hill Postdoc
Goeffrey Iyer, PhD, UCLA 2018, Google CA
Baichuan Yuan, PhD, UCLA 2020, Facebook CA
Christian Parkinson (joint with S. Osher), PhD, UCLA 2020, Univ. Arizona

Bohan Chen, PhD student in Mathematics, advanced to Candidacy
Hao Li, PhD student in Mathematics, advanced to candidacy
Thomas Tu, PhD student in Mathematics, advanced to candidacy
Jacob Moorman, PhD student in Mathematics, advanced to candidacy
Kyung Ha, PhD student in Mathematics, advanced to candidacy
Kevin Miller, PhD student in Mathematics
Kaiyan Peng, PhD student in Mathematics, advanced to candidacy

Oleg Alexandrov (2006), NASA Ames
David Arnold (2016-2019), Lecturer in Applied Mathematics (permanent), Macquarie Univ. Sydney Australia
Egil Bae (2013-14) Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
Daniel Balague (2015-16) Research Staff Information Technology, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Alethea Barbaro (2008-2012), Assoc. Prof. Delft Univ. Technology Netherlands
Mark Bowen (2000-1), Assoc. Prof., International Center for Science and Engineering Programs, Waseda Univ.
Christoph Brune (2011-12) Asst. Prof. tenure track Univ. Twente
Katy Craig (2014-15) Asst. Prof. (tenure track) UCSB
Mihai Cucuringu (2013-2016) Assoc. Prof. Statistics, Oxford UK
Shibin Dai (2005-8), Assoc. Prof. Univ. Alabama Tuscaloosa
Maria D'Orsogna (2004-7), Professor, Cal State Northridge
Marc Droske (2005), WETA New Zealand
Selim Esedoglu (2004), Professor, Univ. of Michigan
Claudia Falcon (2016-2020), Postdoc UNC Chapel Hill
Matthew Haberland (2014-2018), Asst. Prof., BioResource and Agricultural Engineering, Cal. Poly San Luis Obispo
Blake Hunter (2011-2014), Senior Data Scientist Manager Activision, Los Angeles
Zhipu Jin (2006-7), Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
Ning Ju (2002-2002), Assoc. Professor with tenure, Oklahoma State University
Lou Kondic (1997-9), Professor, NJIT
Da Kuang (2015-2017), Amazon Seattle
Thomas Laurent (2007-2010), Assoc. Prof., Loyola Marymount
Sungyon Lee (2011-13), Asst. Prof. tenure track, Univ. Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering
Daniel Marthaler (2002-4), Stitch Fix, Data Scientist
Aliki Mavromoustaki (2011-2015, 2018), Netflix
Mario Micheli (2007-2010), Senior Lecturer, Johns Hopkins U
George Mohler (2008-2010), Assoc. Prof. Comp. Sci., IUPUI
Andreas Muench (1998-9), Professor, Oxford Univ, UK
Nebo Murisic (2007-2010), Credit Quant Associate Goldman Sachs, NYC
Virginia Pasour (2007-8), Program Officer, Army Research Office, Durham, NC
Michaela Rombach (2013-2017), Asst. Prof. Univ. Vermont
Jesus Rosado Linares (2011-14), Asst. Prof., Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha Spain
Martin Short (2007-2011), Assoc. Prof. Georgia Tech
Dejan Slepcev (2004-6), Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
Linda Smolka (2002), Assoc. Professor tenure track, Bucknell
Jeanman Sur (2001-3), Samsung, Korea
Chad Topaz (2002-6), Professor, Williams College
Yves van Gennip (2010-13), Asst. Prof. Univ. of Delft, Netherlands
James von Brecht (2012-14), Asst. Prof. tenure track, CSU Long Beach
Bao Wang (2016-2020), Asst. Prof Univ Utah
Chuntian Wang (2015-2018), Asst Prof. Univ. Alabama Tuscaloosa
Li Wang (2012-2015), Asst. Prof. tenure track, Univ. Minnesota Mathematics
Thomas Ward III (2005-8), Assoc. Prof., Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State Univ.
Todd Wittman (2006-2011), Assoc. Prof., The Cidadel

Hangjie Ji
Michael Lindstrom
Wen Li
Omri Azencot
Matt Jacobs
Karthik Elamvazhu