UQ Workshop
Principal Lecturers
Dr. Habib N. Najm is a Distinguished Member of the Technical
Staff at Sandia National
Laboratories in Livermore, CA. He received his Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1989. His work at Sandia's
Combustion Research Facility
covers a range of computational reacting flow research, with a focus on
development and utilization of advanced algorithms. He also works on
the development of stochastic numerical methods for uncertainty
quantification in thermofluid systems, on computational studies of
stochastic dynamical systems and electrochemical microfluid systems,
and on Bayesian statistical techniques for inverse problems. Dr. Najm
is author of over fifty archival journal articles and eleven U.S. patents.
Dr. Nicholas J. Zabaras is a Professor at the
Sibley School of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering and Director of the
Materials Process Design and
Control Laboratory at Cornell
University. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics from Cornell University in 1987. His main research focus is
on the development of mathematical, statistical, and stochastic
modeling techniques for materials design. He has also contributed
extensively on the development of GPCE, stochastic support, sparse grid
collocation, and Bayesian techniques for uncertainty quantification in
systems governed by stochastic partial differential equations. His
recent work in this area is on data-driven, reduced-order stochastic
models for topological uncertainty. Dr. Zabaras is author of over
ninety archival journal articles.
