Short Bio

I'm an Associate Professor in the ACMS Department, and a Concurrent Associate Professor in the AME Department at the University of Notre Dame. I graduated with honors and received a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy. I have completed my Ph.D. thesis as a Visiting Researcher at Stanford University, followed by a Postdoctoral position at University of California, San Diego and Stanford University.

Education

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics - Universita' degli Studi di Padova.
M.Eng. in Civil/Structural Engineering - Universita' degli Studi di Padova.
B.Eng. in Civil/Structural Engineering - Universita' degli Studi di Padova.

Awards and Fellowships

Huisking Foundation, Inc. Assistant Professorship, July 2020 - June 2021.
NSF CAREER Award, June 2020 - May 2025.
An Advisor to X, April 2019 - September 2019.
DARPA Young Faculty Award, Class of 2018.
ICME Poster Award, ICME Expo 2016, Stanford University - "Poster that best exhibits interdisciplinary research that connects mathematics, engineering, applied science, and computation in a way that represents the ICME mission".
American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015-2016.

Research Interests

Uncertainty quantification, stochastic modeling, multi-resolution approximation, multi-fidelity Monte Carlo estimators, numerical simulation, inverse problems, medical imaging, machine learning, artificial neural networks.