George E Karniadakis

George E Karniadakis is the Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Engineering at Brown University. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Applied Mathematics and has extensive affiliations in Engineering and Computational Biology. His career spans prestigious institutions including MIT, Stanford/NASA Ames, Princeton, Caltech, and Peking University as a Visiting Professor.

Karniadakis is a triple Fellow of AAAS, SIAM, and APS, and a distinguished awardee of the SIAM/ACM Prize and Oden Medal. His research focuses on fractional PDEs, uncertainty quantification, mesoscale simulations of biological flows, and fluid-structure interaction problems. He directs the DOE Center on Physics-Informed Learning Machines and leads a MURI project on Physics-Informed Neural Networks.

• Key Research Areas:
  • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and turbulence modeling
  • Stochastic differential equations and polynomial chaos
  • Biomechanics of red blood cells and sickle cell disease
  • Machine learning for physics-informed models
  • Fractional calculus applications in viscoelasticity
  • Multiscale and multi-resolution modeling
• Scientific Awards:
  • SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science & Engineering (2021)
  • SIAM Ralf Kleinman Award (2015)
  • CFD Award (2007)
  • Inaugural J Tinsley Oden Medal (2013)
• Labs & Teams:
  • Director of DOE Center on Physics-Informed Learning Machines
  • Lead PI of OSD/AFOSR MURI on Physics-Informed Neural Networks
  • Collaborator in multiscale simulations of brain blood flow and arterial networks