Dr. Elizabeth Qian

Biography

Elizabeth Qian holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech in the Schools of Aerospace Engineering and Computational Science and Engineering. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on developing new computational methods that enable engineering design and decision-making for complex systems. She specializes in creating efficient surrogate models for model reduction and scientific machine learning, as well as developing multi-fidelity approaches to accelerate expensive computations related to uncertainty quantification, optimization, and control. Elizabeth previously held a postdoctoral appointment as a von Karman Instructor at Caltech in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. She is a recipient of several awards, including a Caltech-wide teaching award bestowed by the undergraduate student body, the 2020 SIAM Student Paper Prize, the Fannie John Hertz Foundation Fellowship, and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Elizabeth is also an alumna of the U.S. Fulbright student program. She earned her Ph.D., SM, and SB degrees from the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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