Frederic G. Gibou

Frederic G. Gibou is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), with affiliations in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics. He joined UCSB in 2004 after completing his PhD in Applied Mathematics at UCLA (2001) and postdoctoral research in Mathematics and Computer Science at Stanford University.

Research Interests: His work centers on high-resolution computational methods for applications in Free Boundary Problems, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Multiphase Flows, Electrostatics, Materials Science, Computer Vision, and Computer Graphics. These areas are unified by their reliance on nonlinear partial differential equations.

Scientific Awards:

• Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics