Bayesian inference as optimal transportation

March 06, 2015, Webb 1100

Youssef Marzouk

MIT, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Abstract

Speaker's Bio

Youssef Marzouk is an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His specialization and research interest include computational science and engineering, uncertainty quantification, data assimilation, statistical inference, fluid dynamics and chemically reacting flow in energy conversion processes and in the environment. He received his Ph.D from Massachusettes Institute of Technology in 2004 and has since been awarded the Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching, AIAA Undergraduate Teaching Award, DOE Early Career Research Award and Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize.