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Maria Emelianenko
- Chair
- Professor
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Maria Emelianenko
- Job Title
- ChairProfessor
- Website
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Exploratory Hall, Room 4402, MSN 3F2
Affiliations
Departments
- Mathematical Sciences Department (Instructional Faculty)
Research Areas
- Applied Science
- Biology
- Biomedical Research
- Computer Science
- Data Sciences
- Engineering
- Materials Science
- Math
- Medical Proteomics
- Modeling
- Physics
- Science Education
- Simulation
Education
- PhD, Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, 2005
- MS, Moscow State University, Russia, 2001
About
I am an interdisciplinary mathematician whose work is focused on applying mathematical theory to a wide range of applied problems. I serve as a Director of the Industrial Immersion program (http://math.gmu.edu/iip.php) and a Director of Graduate Studies for the Mathematics department.
Current Research
My work lies at the interface between mathematics and other areas of science and engineering, such as materials science, chemistry and biology. I develop new predictive models and simulations for smart materials design and design fast data analysis algorithms in collaboration with interdisciplinary colleagues. My research is problem driven and utilizes a wide spectrum of mathematical tools from optimization, numerical analysis, stochastic processes, PDEs and statistics.
Teaching Focus
I teach a variety of courses ranging from undergraduate differential equations to advanced graduate courses on numerical analysis, linear algebra, data science and ODE.
Selected Publications
J. Snider, I. Griva, X. Sun, M. Emelianenkoâ€Set-based framework for Gibbs energy minimizationâ€, CALPHAD,48 (2015), p. 18–26
K. Barmak, E. Eggeling, M. Emelianenko, Y. Epshteyn, D. Kinderlehrer, R. Sharp, S. Ta'asan "Critical events, entropy, and the grain boundary character distribution", Physical Review B, Vol. 83, 134117 (2011)
Q. Du, M. Emelianenko and L. Ju “Convergence properties of the Lloyd algorithm for computing the centroidal Voronoi tessellationsâ€, SIAM J. Numer. Anal.,44, Issue 1 (2006), p. 102–119
Awards
- PSU Graduate School Alumni Society Early Career Award, 2014
- Mason Emerging Researcher/Scholar/Creator Award, 2013
- NSF CAREER award, 2011
- ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, 2009
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Maria Emelianenko
- Job Title
- ChairProfessor
- Website
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Exploratory Hall, Room 4402, MSN 3F2