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Youssef Marzouk is a Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-director of the MIT Center for Computational Engineering. He directs MIT's Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory. His research interests lie at the intersection of physical modeling, statistical inference, and computation, specifically focusing on developing methodologies for uncertainty quantification, inverse problems, large-scale Bayesian computation, and optimal experimental design for complex physical systems. His methodological work is motivated by a wide variety of applications spanning engineering, environmental science, and geophysics. Dr. Marzouk received his SB, SM, and PhD degrees from MIT and spent years at Sandia National Laboratories before joining the MIT faculty in 2009. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize in 2004, the Sandia Laboratories Truman Fellowship from 2004 to 2007, and the Department of Energy Early Career Research Award in 2010, as well as the Junior Bose Award for Teaching Excellence from the MIT School of Engineering in 2012. He is also an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and currently serves on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Advances in Computational Mathematics, and the SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, co-director of MIT Center for Computational Engineering.