New Applied Mathematics Faculty Member: Liliana Borcea

Liliana Borcea will join the Applied Mathematics faculty in July 2024.

Prof. Borcea’s research interests are in applied mathematics, with particular interests in wave propagation in random media with applications to wave-based imaging and free space optical communications; inverse problems for hyperbolic, elliptic, and parabolic partial differential equations; and data-driven reduced order modeling and applications to inverse problems.

Prof. Borcea earned her undergraduate degree in Applied Physics from the University of Bucharest in Romania and her PhD in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics (SCCM) from Stanford University. Following a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Caltech, she joined the faculty in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University in 1996 and was named the Noah Harding Professor in 2007. She then joined the Mathematics faculty at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she has been the Peter Field Collegiate Professor of Mathematics since 2013.

Prof. Borcea was recognized as the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer for 2017, selected “for her distinguished scientific contributions to the mathematical and numerical analysis of wave propagation in random media, array imaging in complex environments, and inverse problems in high-contrast electrical impedance tomography, as well as model reduction techniques for parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations.” She is a member of the 2018 class of SIAM Fellows and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.