Liliana Borcea is the Peter Field Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. Her research interests are in

scientific computing Computational science, also known as scientific computing or scientific computation (SC), is a field in mathematics that uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems. It is an area of science that spans many disc ...

and

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical s ...

, including the scattering and transport of electromagnetic waves.

Education and career

Borcea is originally from Romania, and earned a diploma in applied physics in 1987 from the University of Bucharest. She came to

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

for her graduate studies in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics, earning a master's degree in 1992 and completing her doctorate in 1996, under the supervision of George C. Papanicolaou. After postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, she joined the

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

department of Computational and Applied Mathematics in 1996, and became the Noah Harding Professor at Rice in 2007. In 2013 she moved to Michigan as Peter Field Collegiate Professor. She served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the

Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), founded in 2011, is an American research institute in mathematics at Brown University, funded beginning in 2010 by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Ab ...

(ICERM).https://icerm.brown.edu/about/nsf/reports/2020-2021-Annual-Report.pdf Annual Report May 1, 2020 – April 30, 2021

Recognition

She was recognized as the AWM-

SIAM Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 mi ...

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 Fellow The SIAM Fellowship is an award and fellowship that recognizes outstanding members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The goal of the program is to: *honor SIAM members who are recognized by their peers as distinguished ...

s. She was elected to the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...

in 2023.

References

External links

Home page
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Borcea, Liliana Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 20th-century American women mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 21st-century American women mathematicians Romanian mathematicians University of Bucharest alumni Stanford University alumni Rice University faculty University of Michigan faculty Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 20th-century American women scientists 20th-century American women academics 20th-century American academics