Research at the Interface of Applied Mathematics and Machine Learning

CBMS Conference

Department of Mathematics, University of Houston

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston will be hosting the CBMS Conference: Research at the Interface of Applied Mathematics and Machine Learning from 12/08/2025 to 12/12/2025.

Principal Lecturer

Lars Ruthotto

The principal lecturer of the conference is Dr. Lars Ruthotto, a Winship Distinguished Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Computer Science at Emory University and a member of Emory’s Scientific Computing Group.

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Dr. Ruthotto is an internationally recognized leading researcher in scientific computing, inverse problems, PDE-constrained optimization, machine learning, and mathematical and numerical methods for deep learning. He is a Winship Distinguished Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Computer Science at Emory University. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Münster in Germany in 2012. After his PhD, he joined the University of British Columbia for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 2013 through 2014. He became a faculty at Emory University in 2014.

He was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in the long program on Machine Learning for Physics and Physics of Learning in 2019. He also held a position as Senior Consultant at XTract Technologies Inc., a company that provides artificial intelligence technologies to telecommunications, transportation, health care, and environmental sectors, from 2017 through 2019. He leads the Emory REU/RET site for Computational Mathematics for Data Science. Dr. Ruthotto received the NSF Career Award in 2018.

Dr. Ruthotto has a track record of top-tier publications in areas such as computational mathematics, optimal control, machine learning and optimization. He has given over 60 invited talks at top research universities and flagship meetings in applied and computational mathematics. He has also contributed to several conferences and workshops. He was the co-chair of the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science in 2022 and a co-organizer of the workshops on Theory of Deep Learning at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Optimization under Uncertainty: Learning and Decision Making at the Banff International Research Station both in 2021.

His professional service includes chairing the SIAM Activity Group on the Mathematics of Data Science, being a section editor in the Machine Learning Methods for Scientific Computing section at the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and being an associate editor at SIAM Review in the research spotlight section.

Speakers

Panelists

Conference Participants

  1. Jorge Chumbipuma, CMOR, Rice University
  2. Jingchun Shao, Mathematics, Texas A&M
  3. Ahmed Al Hasan, Mathematics, University of Houston
  4. Tao Hong, Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin
  5. Chenyang Cao, Mathematics, Purdue University
  6. Tong Ding, Purdue University
  7. Deepak Bastola, Mathematics, Florida Atlantic University
  8. Anarzhan Abilgazy, Mathematics, Southern Methodist University
  9. Annalisa Quaini, Mathematics, University of Houston
  10. Mayank Konduri, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
  11. Zhihua Li, Mathematics, University of Iowa
  12. Zhongjie Shi, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  13. Xingjian Li, Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin
  14. Bernardo Rivas, Mathematics, The University of Toledo
  15. Diego Andres Vega Avilez, Mathematics, University of Houston
  16. Sajjadul Bari, Mathematics, University of Houston
  17. Murad Hossen, Mathematics, University of Houston
  18. Asikul Islam, Mathematics, University of Houston
  19. Samundra Regmi, Mathematics, University of Houston
  20. Liangchen Liu, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
  21. Kossi D. Edoh, Mathematics, North Carolina A&T State University
  22. Zihan Shao, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
  23. Ryad Ghanam, Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University
  24. Jessie Chen, Mathematics, North Carolina State University
  25. Quoc Nguyen, Mathematics, University of Houston
  26. Lizuo Liu, Mathematics, Dartmouth College
  27. Gabriela Jaramillo, Mathematics, University of Houston
  28. Christopher Chukwuemeka, Mathematics, University of Houston
  29. Zhaiming Shen, Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  30. Widodo Samyono, Mathematics, Jarvis Christian University
  31. William Smith, Mathematics, University of Houston
  32. Tian-Li Yan, Mathematics, University of Houston
  33. Mark Simmons, Mathematics, University of Houston
  34. Biraj Dahal, Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
  35. Alaa Alharbi, Mathematics, University of Houston
  36. Sachin Kumar, Mathematics, University of Houston
  37. Shahrear Khan Rasel, Mathematics, University of Houston
  38. Abhijit Chowdhary, Mathematics, University of Tufts
  39. Peilin Liu, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
  40. Tony Wehbe, Mathematics, University of Toledo
  41. Mingtao Xia, Mathematics, University of Houston
  42. Johnathan Andres, Mathemtics, University of Houston
  43. Thomas Winckelman, Mathematics, Texas A&M
  44. Tian-Yi Zhou, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
  45. William Kalies, Mathematics, Florida Atlantic University
  46. David Mis, CMOR, Rice University
  47. Wael El Khateeb, Mathematics, University of Toledo
  48. Karthik Kumar Vasudeva, Mathematics, Texas Tech University
  49. Wanjun Ning, Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington
  50. Aidan Gettemy, Mathematics, University of Texas at Dallas
  51. Lander Besabe, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Clemson University
  52. Parnian Ahmadzadeh, Mathematics, University of Houston
  53. Pavithra Venkatachalapathy, Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University
  54. Yan Jiang, Mathematics, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
  55. Charles Ibitamuno, Mathmatics, Columbia University
  56. Uzochi Gideon, CMOR, Rice University
  57. Md Shafiqul Islam, Mathematics, University of Houston
  58. Amy Veprauskas, Applied Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  59. Kamrun Nahar Mily, Mathematics, University of Houston
  60. Maria Vasilyeva, Mathematics, Texas A&M Corpus Christi
  61. Hyangim Ji, Mathematics, Texas A&M Corpus Christi
  62. Solomon Tumwekwase, Mathematics, University of Houston
  63. Krishnan Raghavan, Argonne National Laboratory
  64. Sadaf Athar Khan, Mathematics, University of Houston
  65. Kenneth Evans, Mathematics, University of Houston
  66. Md Rezwan Bin Mizan, Mathematics, University of Houston
  67. Charles Puelz, Mathematics, University of Houston
  68. Maral Motlagh, Mathematics, University of Houston
  69. Desmond Boateng, Mathematics, Boise State University
  70. Mario Bencomo, Mathematics, Fresno State University
  71. Nicolas Charon, Mathematics, University of Houston
  72. Shao-Ting Chiu, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M
  73. Kanan Gupta, Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
  74. Tanmoy Bairagi, Mathematics, University of Houston
  75. Ujas Shah, Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
  76. Andrew Torok, Mathematics, University of Houston
  77. Shivam Patel, Mathematics, Portland State University
  78. Haolan Zheng, Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  79. Md Amran Hossan Mojamder, Mathematics, University of Houston
  80. Ilya Timofeyev, Mathematics, University of Houston
  81. Amiri Pegah, Mathematics, University of Houston
  82. ...