Vera Mikyoung Hur

Vera Mikyoung Hur is a Professor of Mathematics and Department Chair at the University of Illinois, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She holds distinguished titles including the Philippe Tondeur Scholar and Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar. Her research focuses on applied mathematics, fluid dynamics, and climate science, with recent interests in machine learning applications.

Education: PhD in Mathematics from Brown University (2006).

Research Interests: Professor Hur’s work integrates rigorous analysis, numerical computation, and modeling to study surface water waves, physical oceanography, and geophysical fluid dynamics. Key areas include large-scale dynamics, nonlinear wave behavior (e.g., breaking and peaking), and applications of machine learning to interdisciplinary problems.

Recent Article Trends: Recent publications emphasize unstable wave phenomena, vorticity effects, and computational methods. Notable topics include Stokes wave instability, capillary-gravity waves, and neural network approaches for quantum lattice models.

• Simons Fellow in Mathematics (2016)
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2012)
• NSF CAREER Award (2014)

Teaching: Courses include Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, and Water Waves. She is affiliated with the Computational Science and Engineering program.