Liliana Borcea

Liliana Borcea is a Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received her PhD in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics at Stanford University, in 1996. From 1996-1997 she was an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Applied Mathematics at California Institute of Technology, and between 1997-2013 she was in the Computational and Applied Mathematics department at Rice University. She moved to University of Michigan in 2013. Her research interests are in stochastic methods with application to wave propagation and imaging in random media, in inverse problems and in the multi-scale analysis of diffusion in high contrast media. Examples of applications are in underwater acoustics, electromagnetic wave propagation and imaging in the atmosphere, groundwater flow, solute transport and controlled source electromagnetic oil and gas exploration. She is a member of the SIAM council (2014-2017). She served as the chair of the SIAM Imaging Science activity group 2010-2011 and is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Academy of Finland, for the Center of Excellence in Inverse Problems Research, 2012-2017. She is on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Multiscale Modeling and Simulations, the SIAM Journal on Uncertainty Quantification and on the international advisory panel of the journal Inverse Problems.