Faculty Bios
Liliana Borcea. Noah G. Harding Professor. Ph.D. (1996) Stanford University. Inverse problems, effective properties of high contrast composite materials, wave propagation, and inverse scattering in random media.
- borcea@caam.rice.edu
- DH 2036
- (713) 348-5723
Steven J. Cox. Professor. Ph.D. (1988) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mathematical biology.
- cox@rice.edu
- DH 2007
- (713) 348-5192
Mark Embree. Professor. D. Phil. (2000) University of Oxford. Numerical analysis, especially numerical linear algebra, and spectral theory for non-normal operators.
- embree@rice.edu
- DH 3019
- (713) 348-6160
Matthias Heinkenschloss. Professor. Ph.D. (1991) University of Trier, Germany. Analysis of optimization methods for optimal control, optimal design, and parameter identification problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs).
(Department Chair since July 2009).
- heinken@rice.edu
- DH 3088
- (713) 348-5176
Illya V. Hicks. Associate Professor. Ph.D. (2000) Rice University. Combinatorial optimization, graph theory, integer programming and related applications.
- illya.hicks@rice.edu
- DH 3020
- (713) 348-5667
Beatrice M. Riviere. Associate Professor. Ph.D. (2000) University of Texas, Austin. Numerical analysis, partial differential equations, discontinuous Galerkin methods, porous media flow, computational fluid dynamics, mathematical biology.
- riviere@rice.edu
- DH 3022
- (713) 348-4094
Danny C. Sorensen. Noah G. Harding Professor. Ph.D. (1977) University of California, San Diego. Numerical Linear Algebra for Large Scale Scientific Computing.
- sorensen@rice.edu
- DH 2035
- (713) 348-5193
William W. Symes. Noah G. Harding Professor. Ph.D. (1975) Harvard University. Partial differential equations - theory and computation; inverse problems.
- symes@rice.edu
- DH 2009
- (713) 348-5997
Richard A. Tapia. University Professor and Maxfield-Oshman Professor. Ph.D. (1967) University of California, Los Angeles. Numerical analysis and optimization theory.
- rat@rice.edu
- DH 3073
- (713) 348-4049
Tim Warburton. Associate Professor. PhD (1999) Brown University. High-resolution finite elements, finite volumes, and discontinuous Galerkin methods for partial differential equations.
- timwar@rice.edu
- DH 3021
- (713) 348-5666
Wotao Yin. Associate Professor. PhD (2006) Columbia University. Conic optimization methods for solving various imaging problems and deriving geometric properties of regularizing functionals.
- wotao.yin@rice.edu
- DH 3086
- (713) 348-5368
Yin Zhang. Professor. PhD (1987) State University of New York, Stony Brook. Design, analysis, and implementation of computer algorithms for solving practical optimization problems.
- zhang@rice.edu
- DH 3090
- (713) 348-5744