George Karniadakis
Professor:
Applied Mathematics
Phone: +1 401 863 1217
gk@dam.brown.edu
Professor Karniadakis's research interests include diverse topics in computational science both on algorithms and applications. A main current thrust is stochastic multiscale modeling of physical and biological systems.
Biography
Professor Karniadakis received his S.M. (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was appointed a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 1987 and subsequently he joined the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford / Nasa Ames. He joined Princeton University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and as Associate Faculty in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics. He was a Visiting Professor at Caltech (1993) in the Aeronautics Department. He joined Brown University as Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Center for Fluid Mechanics on January 1, 1994. He became a full professor on July 1, 1996. He has been a Visiting Professor and Senior Lecturer of Ocean/Mechanical Engineering at MIT since September 1, 2000. He was aVisiting Professor at Peking University (Fall 2007). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS, 2004-), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME, 2003-) and also an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA, 2006-). He is the recipient of the CFD award (2007) by the US Association in Computational Mechanics.
Interests
Professor Karniadakis's research interests include diverse topics in computational science both on algorithms and applications. A main current thrust is stochastic multiscale modeling of physical and biological systems. Particular aspects include: Stochastic differential equations; Modeling uncertainty with polynomial chaos; Multiscale modeling of biological systems; Atomistic/Mesocopic modelling - Dissipative Particle Dynamics; Low Dimensional Modeling - Gappy Data - Data Assimilation; Spectral/hp Element nd Discontinuous Galerkin Methods; Turbulent Drag Reducttion; DNS/LES of turbulence in complex geometries; Flow-structure inteactions; Micro-transport and Dynamic self-assembly; Flow and heat control applications; Parallel computing; Interactive/virtual reality computer graphics.
Awards
The USACM Computational Fluid Dynamics Award, 2007
Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) 2006.
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) 2004.
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2003.
17th Robert Bruce Wallace Lecture Award, MIT, 2003.
Rheinstein Junior Faculty Award, Prineton Univesity, 1992.
Affiliations
- Member of the Committee on Medical Faculty Appointment (CMFA).
- Member of the Department of Applied Mathemataics Graduate Committee.
- Member of the World Technology Assessment Center panel.
- Member of Scientific Committee of the annual SIAM conference (2004).
- Scientific Committee of International Conference on Tranport Phenomena in Micro and Nanodevices, (2004).
- Member of Scientific Committee of FIV2004 conference (2004).
- Member of Scientific Committee of ICOSAHOM'04 (2004).
- Member of Scientific Committee of BBVIV3 Conference on Wakes 2002/2005;
- Member of Scientific Committee of IUTAM Conference on Unsteady Flows 2002;
- Member of Scientific Committee of FEM in Flow Problems 2000;
- Member of Scientific Committee of IUTAM Conference on Wakes 2000;
- Member of Scientific Committee of ICOSAHOM, 1998; 2001; 2004;
- Member of Scientific Committee of 3nd AFOSR Conference on DNS/LES, 2001;
- Member of Scientific Committee of 2nd AFOSR Conference on DNS/LES, 1999;
- Member of Scientific Committee of 1st AFOSR Conference on DNS/LES, 1997;
- Member of Scientific Committee of 11th International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1997;
- Member of Scientific Committee of 2nd International Colloquium on Blu® Body Aerodynamics and Applications, Melbourne, 1992;
- Member of the Editorial Board for the Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 1992-;
- Member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Computational Engineering Science, 2005- ;
- Associate Editor of Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2004 - ;
- Associate Editor of Journal of Computational Physics, 2006-;
- Associate Editor of J. Fluids Engineering, 1993-96; 2000-2003;
- Member and chairman of the Peer Review Board of NSF (PSC/NCSA) supercomputing Centers, 1993-96;
- Member of the Users Advisory Board for Supercomputing: NCSA, 1998-; PSC; 2000- . NPACI Allocations Committee: 2001- .
- Member and chair of the Teragrid NSF panel 2000-04.
- Chief Organizer of ICOSAHOM'04, June 2004 (with Gottlieb, Shu & Hestahaven).
- Organizer of Symposium on Microfluidics, WCCM V, July 2002 (with N. Aluru).
- Organizer of Symposium on Instability/Transition, IUTAM, April 2002.
- Organizer of Symposium on Micro°uidics, AIAA, January 2001 (with A. Beskok).
- Organizer of Symposium on FEM & LES, FEM 2000, April 2000, Austin, TX.
Teaching
In 2007 Professor Karniadakis supervised two post-docs (one jointly with MIT) , and ten Ph.D. students (jointly with his collaborators). .
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Curriculum Vitae
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