George Karniadakis

George Em Karniadakis is a Greek-American researcher, known for his wide-spectrum work on high-dimensional stochastic modeling and multiscale simulations of physical and biological systems. He is one of the pioneers of spectral/hp-element methods for fluids in complex geometries, general Polynomial Chaos for uncertainty quantification, and the theory of Sturm-Liouville theory for fractional partial differential equations. He is currently the Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.

He has advised more than forty PhD students in diverse areas of research including numerical methods for computational fluid dynamics, stochastic PDEs, numerical methods for fractional PDEs, modeling uncertainty with polynomial chaos, multiscale modeling of biological systems, dissipative particle dynamics, flow-structure interactions, parallel computing, and interactive/virtual reality computer graphics.

George Em Karniadakis received his S.M. in 1984, and his Ph.D. in 1987 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the advice of Anthony T. Patera and Borivoje B. Mikic. Then, he joined the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University, NASA Ames Laboratory, as a postdoctoral research associate. Subsequently, he joined Princeton University as an assistant professor in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering also as an associate faculty in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM). In 1993, he held a visiting professor appointment in the Aeronautics Department at California Institute of Technology. Then, he joined the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University as an associate professor in 1994. He became a full professor of applied mathematics in 1996 and entitled the Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics in 2014. Since 2000, he has been a visiting professor and senior lecturer of Ocean/Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is the lead PI of an OSD/AFOSR MURI on Uncertainty Quantification, the lead PI of OSD/ARO MURI on fractional PDEs, and the director of Department of Energy Center of Mathematics for Mesoscale Modeling of Materials (CM4) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

• Ralph E. Kleinman Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2015
• MCS Wiederhielm Award of the Microcirculatory Society "for the most highly cited original article in Microcirculation over the previous five year period for the paper", 2015
• US Association for Computational Mechanics, 2013, The J Tinsley Oden (inaugural) Medal.
• US Association for Computational Mechanics, 2007 Computational Fluid Dynamics award.
• Fellow of the Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIAM), 2010.
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2004.
• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003.
• Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2006.