Biographical Sketch: Houman Owhadi

Computing and Mathematical Sciences MC 9-94, Caltech

Pasadena, CA 91125

Phone: (626) 395 4547  Fax: (626) 578 0124

Email: owhadi@caltech.edu

http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~owhadi/

(a) Educational Background

Ecole Polytechnique (France). Mathematics and Physics M.S. 1994

Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. Civil Engineering M.S. 1997

University of Paris VI (Jussieu). DEA (Probability) 1997

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Mathematics Ph.D. (with G. Ben Arous) 2001

Technion. Post Doc (with D. Ioffe) in Probability Theory 2000/2001

(b) Professional Experience

2011 - present: Caltech, Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and

Control & Dynamical Systems.

2004-2011: Caltech, Assistant Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and

Control & Dynamical Systems.

2001-2004: CNRS Research Fellow.

1994-2001: High Civil Servant in the Corps des et Chaussées (French Corps of Engineers).

(c) Professional Affiliations.

· SIAM.

· AMS.

(d) Activities.

• Caltech Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program: Director of the Uncertainty Quantification group.

• International Journal of Uncertainty Quantification (Editorial Board).

• Caltech Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Department Academic Officer.

• Applied and Computational Mathematics Option Representative (for graduate students).

(e) Distinctions.

• Aly Kaufman fellow (2000).

• Prix EPFL doctorat 2001.

• UTRC gift (Post Doctoral Grant Fellowship). 2009.

• IMA Editor’s Choice article (Stochastic Variational Integrators, 2009).

• IMA, one of the top 5 most downloaded articles (Stochastic Variational Integrators, 2009).

(f) Research grants and contracts.

• AFOSR. Grant number FA9550-12-1-0389. Scientific Computation of Optimal Statistical Estimators, 2012-2015, $900,000 (PI).
• DOE/LANL (Exascale Co-Design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments), Aug 2012-…, $150,000/year (UQ task).
• NSF. OCI-1216643, Scientific Software Innovation Institute for Advanced Analysis of X-Ray and Neutron Scattering Data (SIXNS). 2012-2014. $477,685 (CoPI, UQ task)
• NSF. CMMI-092600, Dynamics and Control of Bio-Molecular Systems using Geometric Model Reduction and Stochastic Variational Integrators, 2009-2012. ($450000). (PI).

• DOE/NNSA. PSAAP, Uncertainty Quantification, ASC Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program ($17 million grant), 2008-2013 (Director of the UQ group).

• UTRC, Post Doctoral Grant Fellowship. 2009.

• DARPA. DynaRum, Dynamic Network Analysis for Robust Uncertainty Management, 2007-2008.

• UTRC. Stochastic Variational Integrators, 2007. (PI)

(g) Selected Invited Lectures (including plenary).

• April 2000: Aussois Congress of Young Probabilists and Statisticians).
• November 2000: Technion's Seminar in Probability and Stochastic Processes.
• January 2001: "Pole Air" Seminar at ENPC.
• February 2001: Orsay Seminar on Probability and Statistics.
• April 2001: Israel Mathematics Union Annual Meeting (Plenary).
• April -May 2001: Mini-Course at Technion on Anomalous Diffusion from Perpetual Homogenization.
• July 2001: Lyon, First Joint Congress AMS, SMF.
• October 2002: Oberwolfach. Stochastic Analysis.
• November 2002: Meeting on Particle Methods and Probabilistic Models Applied to the Simulation of the Nuclear Waste Transport Problems (Plenary).
• December 2002: University of Lyon Applied Mathematics Colloquium.
• January 2003: ENS Géologie, Nancy:  “Modélisation Micro-Macro des Phénomènes Couplés de Transport-Chimie-Déformation en milieux argileux “ (Plenary).
• February 2003: Caltech, ACM Colloquium.
• March 2003: Congress CIRM. Statistical Mechanics and Probability  Theory (Plenary). 
• March 2003. University of Neuchâtel Mathematics Seminar.
• April 2003: Courant Institute, Probability Seminar.
• July 2003:  Lisbonne: XIV International Congress on Mathematical Physics.
• January 2004: Santiago de Chile, Workshop on Percolation, Particle Systems and Random Media (Plenary).
• April 11 : USC Applied Math Seminar.
• April 24, 2005: Southern California SIAM Symposium (Plenary).
• May 2005: Oberwolfach, Stochastic Analysis and Non-Classical Random Processes (Plenary).
• May 2005: Max Planck Institute: Workshop on Metastability, Aging, and Anomalous Diffusion. Stochastic and Nonlinear Effects in Long Term Dynamics (Plenary).
• July 2005:  CIRM. Workshop on Random Homogenization.
• March 1, 2006: Caltech, Center for Advanced Computing Research.
• March 2006: Banff (Canada), Reaction Diffusion and Free Boundary Problems.
• March 31, 2006: USC, Probability Seminar.
• July 2006: Los Angeles , 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics.
• January 24, 2007: Chicago University, Mathematics Seminar.
• March 19-22, 2007: SIAM Geosciences, Santa Fe.
• June 8, 2007: Stanford, Applied Mathematics Seminar. 
• Oct 2007 : Dynarum Workshop, Caltech.
• Nov 2007 : UTRC Seminar.
• Nov 2007 : University of Arizona, Mathematics Seminar.
• Nov 2007 : Tucson, Dynarum Workshop.
• Jan 2008 : Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego.
• April 2008: University of Maryland, Mathematics Seminar.
• April 2008: Structured Integrators Workshop (Stanford).
• May 2008: 6th International Conference On Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems.
• June 2008: FOCM Meeting, Honk Kong.
• July 2008: Stanford UQ Workshop.
• August 2008: TST PSAAP, Caltech.
• September 15, 2008: University of Chicago, Applied Mathematics Seminar.
• October 10-11, 2008:  2nd Workshop on Multiscale and Stochastic Modeling, Analysis, and Computation. The Michigan Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. (Plenary).
• October 17, 2008: Purdue University, CCAM Seminar.
• October 31, 2008: University of Minnesota, Probability Seminar.
• November 6, 2008: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CASC Seminar.
• March 2-6, 2009: SIAM CSE Conference (UQ Minisymposium).
• March 26-29, 2009:  Workshop on Meshless Methods, Generalized Finite Element Methods, and Related Approaches, at the University of Maryland, College Par k.
• May 4, 2009: Caltech, ACM colloquium.
• May 7-8, 2009: Structured Integrators Workshop.
• June 2-6, 2009: EPFL: Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals, and Systems, with Physical Modeling (Plenary).
• June 9-12, 2009: Brunel UK, MAFELAP conference. Validation and Robust Prediction in Computational Science.
• July 6-11, 2009: Taida Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Taida Mathematics Month, International Conference in Mathematics (Computational and Applied Math), Taiwan.
• July 28-30, 2009: PSAAP UQ Workshop (Caltech).
• August 10-11 2009:  USC Workshop on Stochastic Multiscale Methods.
• August 30-Sept 2 2009: SAMSI program on Stochastic Dynamics (Plenary).
• October 7, 2009. UTRC Seminar.
• October 9, 2009. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Applied mathematics seminar.
• November 4, 2009. Caltech. E2 Frontiers in Engineering and Applied Science.
• Dec 6-11, 2009. Numerical Analysis of Multiscale Computations (BIRS).
• March 2, 2010: Caltech CS/IST Lunch Bunch seminar.
• April 26-27, 2010. 6th Annual Structured Integrators Workshop (UCSD).
• May 24-28, 2010. International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh, Scotland. SPDE-UQ workshop.
• June 28- July 10, 2010: Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Bangalore-India).  International Workshop on Multiscale Analysis and Homogenization.  (Four-Lecture Course on Homogenization with Non-Separated Scales)
• July 12 - July 14, 2010: Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Bangalore-India). International Conference on Multiscale Analysis and Homogenization. (Plenary)
• July 22-24, 2010: Dynamical Systems and Control. Corfu, Greece (Plenary).
• September 13-17, 2010. Conference on Highly Oscillatory Problems. Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. (Plenary).
• September 27-30, 2010. Istitut Henri Poincare (Paris). Hybrid Simulations of Dynamical Systems and Applications to Molecular Dynamics. (3-Hours Course, Plenary).
• November 10, 2010. UT Austin. Math/ICES Center of Numerical Analysis Seminar.
• November 11, 2010. UT Austin. Mathematical Physics Seminar.
• January 24 - 28, 2011: Random Media: Homogenization and Beyond. (IPAM Workshop).
• Feb 3, 2011. University of Arizona Mathematics Colloquium.
• Feb 21-25, 2011. Twelfth Event (CMDS-12) of the International Symposium Series on Continuum Models and Discrete Systems (CMDS). Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata (Calcutta), India. (Plenary).
• February 28 - March 4, 2011.  SIAM CSE11 (Reno, NV). Mini-Symposium on "Numerical Methods for Stochastic Computation and Uncertainty Quantification."
• March 10-12, 2011. Third "Frontier Probability Days" (FPD11). University of Utah. (Plenary).
• March 14, 2011. Applied Math and Analysis Seminar, Duke University.
• March 21-24, 2011. SIAM Geosciences Meeting. Multiscale Aspects of Wave Propagation. Long Beach, CA, USA.
• March 27-April 1 2011. Stochastic Multiscale Methods (BIRS Workshop in Banff).
• April 15, 2011. USC probability seminar.
• April 18, 2011. Penn Sate University. 
• June 13-15, 2011. Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Uncertainty Quantification and Multiscale Materials Modeling. 
• July 18-22, 2011. ICIAM 2011 (Vancouver, BC). Minisymposium on "Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Uncertainty Quantification."
• July 18-22, 2011. ICIAM 2011 (Vancouver, BC). Minisymposium  on “Numerical Solution of Stochastic PDEs.”
• July 25-28, 2011. WAVES 2011 (Vancouver, BC). Minisymposium on Multiscale methods for wave propagation.
• August 1-5, 2011. USA/South America symposium on Uncertainty Quantification.  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• October 19, 2011. USC AME Seminar.
• October 22-23, 2011. 2011 Fall AMS Western Section Meeting, "Inverse Problems and Homogenization", Salt Lake City, UT
• November 5, 2011. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Aerospace Engineering Seminar series.
• November 10, 2011. SAMSI. High Dimensional Approximation for Uncertainty Quantification.
• December 9, 2011. LATP, Marseille. Probability and Statistics seminar.
• December 12-16, 2011.  Workshop on Multiscale Systems: theory and applications. Warwick University.
• March 16, 2012. Center for Control, Dynamical systems and Computation (CCDC) at UCSB.
• March 19, 2012, ICME Colloquium,  Stanford.
• April 3-5, 2012. SIAM UQ12 conference. Raleigh.
• July 30-Aug 2, 2012. AFOSR. Arlington.
• October 9-11, 2012. ICERM, Brown. Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification.
• October 24, 2012. LLNL.
• December 3-7, 2012. IPAM. Workshop on Computational Methods for Multiscale Modeling of Materials Defects.

• March 17-23, 2013. Oberwolfach. Interplay of Theory and Numerics for Deterministic  and Stochastic Homogenization, (organizer).
• April 28-May 1, 2013. UT Austin Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Workshop on Multiscale Modeling.
• May 15, 2013. Stanford applied math seminar.
• June 9-12, 2013. SIAM '13 Conference on Math Aspects of Materials Science (Philadelphia). Aspects of Homogenization: Analysis and Applications.
• September 16-20, 2013. Heraklion, Greece. International Conference on Applied Mathematics (Plenary).

(h) Courses Taught.

• April -May 2001: Mini-Course at Technion on Anomalous Diffusion from Perpetual Homogenization .
• February-April 2002: CMI, Université de Provence: Homogénéisation Perpétuelle et Diffusions Anormales.
• August 2004: Mahdia (Tunisia):  Course on Homogenization (summer school).
• 2004-2005: Caltech: Partial Differential Equations (ACM 201 a and b).
• 2005-2006: Caltech: Markov Chains. (ACM 216)
• 2005-2006: Caltech: Stochastic Differential Equations. (ACM 217)
• 2006-2007: Caltech: Introduction to Probability Theory and Applications. (ACM 116)
• 2006-2007: Caltech: Large Deviations and Concentration of Measure (ACM 256).
• 2007-2008: Caltech: Introduction to probability theory and applications   (ACM 116)
• 2007-2008: Caltech: Markov Chains (ACM 216).
• 2008-2009: Caltech: Introduction to Probability Theory and Applications (ACM/EE 116)
• 2008-2009: Caltech: Markov Chains (ACM 216).
• 2009-2010: Caltech: Introduction to Probability Theory and Applications (ACM/EE 116)
• 2009-2010: Caltech: Introduction to Optimization (ACM 113)
• June 28- July 10, 2010: Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Bangalore, India): Four-Lecture Course on Homogenization with Non-Separated Scales at the International Workshop on Multiscale Analysis and Homogenization.
• September 27-30, 2010: Institut Henri Poincaré (Paris):  Simulation of Hybrid Dynamical Systems and Applications to Molecular Dynamics (3-hour lecture).
• 2010-2011: Caltech: Introduction to Probability Theory and Applications (ACM/EE 116, 100 enrolled students)
• 2010-2011: Caltech: Advanced Topics in Optimization (ACM 213)
• 2011-2012: Caltech: Introductory Methods of Applied Mathematics (ACM 95/100b: Ordinary Differential Equations, 200+ students)
• 2012-2013: Caltech: Markov Chains (ACM 216).
• 2012-2013: Caltech: Stochastic Differential Equations and martingales (ACM 217).

(i) Students and Postdoctoral Scholars Supervised.

Former Graduate Students

· Lei Zhang. (W.P. Carey Ph.D. Prize in Applied Mathematics 2007). Post Doc at Max Planck Leipzig, University of Bonn and Oxford. Now tenure track associate professor at the Shanghai Jiaotong University.

· Roger Donaldson (co-advised with M. Desbrun, created his own Startup company).

· Leonard Lucas (co-advised with M. Ortiz, US Navy, Pittsburgh).

· Molei Tao (co-advised with J. Marsden, W.P. Carey Ph.D. Prize in Applied Mathematics 2011, now Courant Instructor at NYU).  

Former Post Docs

· Nawaf Bou Rabee (NSF post doctoral fellow 2008,  Courant Institute Instructor 2009-2011, Tenure track assistant professor of mathematics at Rutgers 2011-present).

· Ali Lashgari (PSAAP 2009-2010). Now a Post Doc at Caltech.

· Ufuk Topcu (co-advised with R. Murray). Now Post Doc at UPenn.

· Molei Tao (co-advised with J. Marsden, W.P. Carey Ph.D. Prize in Applied Mathematics 2011, now Courant Instructor at NYU).

· Tim Sullivan (co-advised with M. Ortiz), now Warwick Zeeman Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at University of Warwick.

(j) Current Research Scientists in the group

· Wang Sang Koon

· Mike McKerns

· Clint Scovel

(h) Other activities

• February 8-11, 2011. Fusion Simulation Program (FSP).
• M2AN Special issue on multiscale problems and techniques (guest editor, 2012-2013).
• NSF panel.