Andrea L. Bertozzi

Andrea L. Bertozzi is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She holds the Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity and serves as Director of Applied Mathematics. She is affiliated with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and leads a research group in applied mathematics with focuses on nonlinear partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and machine learning.

Education: Ph.D. (1991), M.A. (1988), and A.B. (1987) in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Research interests include fluid dynamics, mathematical modeling, and machine learning applications. Her work spans interdisciplinary areas such as particle-laden flows, crime modeling, and environmental systems. She has published extensively in top journals and conferences, contributing to fields like computational physics, graph-based learning, and social network analysis.

Her research group actively collaborates on projects involving undergraduate and graduate students, focusing on problems in applied mathematics and its intersections with engineering and social sciences. She advises students on PhD and postdoctoral research, emphasizing rigorous mathematical approaches to real-world challenges.

Labs/Teams: Leads the UCLA Applied Mathematics group and collaborates with the CNSI on nanoscale systems and advanced materials.