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PhD student Mahendra Panagoda successfully defends his dissertation titled “Convergence Analysis and Bilevel Optimization Algorithms for Matrix Completion Problems”

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CMAI, together with MathWorks, will be hosting a virtual workshop

CMAI, together with MathWorks, will be hosting a virtual workshop on Deep Learning (November 10, 2021). Registration is mandatory (link)

*The programs and services offered by George Mason University are open to all who seek them. George Mason does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic national origin (including shared ancestry and/or ethnic characteristics), sex, disability, military status (including veteran status), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, pregnancy status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. After an initial review of its policies and practices, the university affirms its commitment to meet all federal mandates as articulated in federal law, as well as recent executive orders and federal agency directives.

CMAI: A success story

Faculty Spotlight: Harbir Antil

Harbir Antil is the Director of the Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (CMAI) and a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at George Mason University. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal “Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models.” He is on the editorial board of prestigious journals such as “SIAM Reviews” and “Math Control & Related Fields.” Antil has also held a research fellowship position at Brown University and is currently an Affiliate Professor at the University of Delaware. His areas of interest include algorithmic optimization, machine (deep) learning, numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and scientific computing with applications in optimal control, shape optimization, dimensional reduction, imaging, fluid dynamics, etc. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, Airforce Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), NIST, Department of Navy, and Department of Energy.

CMAI has a remarkable research output. Besides a large number of research grants (12 ongoings), just in the last 1.5 years, CMAI has published or submitted over 50 research articles in the leading journals. This level of output is comparable to some of the top centers in the country.

The Institute for Digital InnovAtion (IDIA) spoke with Antil about the Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

*The programs and services offered by George Mason University are open to all who seek them. George Mason does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic national origin (including shared ancestry and/or ethnic characteristics), sex, disability, military status (including veteran status), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, pregnancy status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. After an initial review of its policies and practices, the university affirms its commitment to meet all federal mandates as articulated in federal law, as well as recent executive orders and federal agency directives.

CMAI, together with the CFD Center is pleased to welcome Randy Price as postdoctoral associate starting September 2021

CMAI, together with the CFD Center is pleased to welcome Randy Price as postdoctoral associate starting September 2021. Randy obtained his PhD from University of Maryland Baltimore County under the guidance of Prof. Animikh Biswas and Prof. Bedřich Sousedík.

*The programs and services offered by George Mason University are open to all who seek them. George Mason does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic national origin (including shared ancestry and/or ethnic characteristics), sex, disability, military status (including veteran status), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, pregnancy status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. After an initial review of its policies and practices, the university affirms its commitment to meet all federal mandates as articulated in federal law, as well as recent executive orders and federal agency directives.

CMAI is pleased to welcome Evelyn Herberg as postdoctoral associate

CMAI is pleased to welcome Evelyn Herberg as postdoctoral associate beginning Fall 2021. Evelyn obtained her PhD under the guidance of Prof. Michael Hinze in Koblenz, Germany.

*The programs and services offered by George Mason University are open to all who seek them. George Mason does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic national origin (including shared ancestry and/or ethnic characteristics), sex, disability, military status (including veteran status), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, pregnancy status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. After an initial review of its policies and practices, the university affirms its commitment to meet all federal mandates as articulated in federal law, as well as recent executive orders and federal agency directives.

CMAI postdoc Akwum Onwunta will start as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at The Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) department of Lehigh University in Fall 2021.

CMAI postdoc Akwum Onwunta will start as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at The Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) department of Lehigh University in Fall 2021. Congratulations Akwum!

*The programs and services offered by George Mason University are open to all who seek them. George Mason does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic national origin (including shared ancestry and/or ethnic characteristics), sex, disability, military status (including veteran status), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, pregnancy status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. After an initial review of its policies and practices, the university affirms its commitment to meet all federal mandates as articulated in federal law, as well as recent executive orders and federal agency directives.

H. Antil and R. Loehner’s article on “High-Fidelity Simulation of Pathogen Propagation, Transmission, and Mitigation” appeared in SIAM News

H. Antil and R. Loehner’s article on “High-Fidelity Simulation of Pathogen Propagation, Transmission, and Mitigation” appeared in SIAM News, Volume 54, Number 6. July/August 2021. Link

*The programs and services offered by George Mason University are open to all who seek them. George Mason does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic national origin (including shared ancestry and/or ethnic characteristics), sex, disability, military status (including veteran status), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, pregnancy status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. After an initial review of its policies and practices, the university affirms its commitment to meet all federal mandates as articulated in federal law, as well as recent executive orders and federal agency directives.

H. Antil has accepted co-Editor in Chief position, together with Enrique Zuazua (Germany) and Xue-Cheng Tai (Hong Kong), for Springer journal Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models

Starting July 1, 2021, H. Antil has accepted co-Editor in Chief position, together with Enrique Zuazua (Germany) and Xue-Cheng Tai (Hong Kong), for Springer journal Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models.

*The programs and services offered by George Mason University are open to all who seek them. George Mason does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic national origin (including shared ancestry and/or ethnic characteristics), sex, disability, military status (including veteran status), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, pregnancy status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. After an initial review of its policies and practices, the university affirms its commitment to meet all federal mandates as articulated in federal law, as well as recent executive orders and federal agency directives.

CMAI team wins the prestigious DURIP award from Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to acquire a major instrumentation

CMAI team wins the prestigious DURIP award from Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to acquire a major instrumentation. May 2021.

*The programs and services offered by George Mason University are open to all who seek them. George Mason does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic national origin (including shared ancestry and/or ethnic characteristics), sex, disability, military status (including veteran status), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, pregnancy status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. After an initial review of its policies and practices, the university affirms its commitment to meet all federal mandates as articulated in federal law, as well as recent executive orders and federal agency directives.

PhD student Deepanshu Verma successfully defends his PhD titled “Optimal Control Problems Constrained by Fractional PDEs and Applications to Deep Neural Networks”

PhD student Deepanshu Verma successfully defends his PhD titled “Optimal Control Problems Constrained by Fractional PDEs and Applications to Deep Neural Networks”. May 2021.

*The programs and services offered by George Mason University are open to all who seek them. George Mason does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic national origin (including shared ancestry and/or ethnic characteristics), sex, disability, military status (including veteran status), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, pregnancy status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. After an initial review of its policies and practices, the university affirms its commitment to meet all federal mandates as articulated in federal law, as well as recent executive orders and federal agency directives.