Invited Talk 1: Paris Perdikaris

Paris Perdikaris is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Principal Researcher Manager at Microsoft Research AI for Science. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University (2015), and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015-2017). His research interests span a range of topics at the interface of computational science and deep learning, including the development of foundation models for weather and climate modeling. physics-informed neural networks and neural operators, generative models, and uncertainty quantification for sequential decision making in scientific and engineering applications.