Education
- 1997, Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University
- 1994, M.Sc., Applied Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University (summa cum laude)
- 1991, B.Sc., Mathematics and Physics, Tel-Aviv University (cum laude)
Academic Experience
- Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2007-present
- Associate Professor, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland, College Park, 2007-present
- Visiting Professor, Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris 2005-06
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, 2000-07
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 1998-2000
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1998-2000
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 1997-1998
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire d'Analyse Numerique, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, 1997-1998
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, 1996
Additional Affiliations
- The Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics, University of Maryland, 2007-present
- Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Program (AMSC), University of Maryland, 2007-present
- BIO-X Program, Stanford University, 2002-2007
- Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME), Stanford University, 2005-2007
- The Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics Program (SCCM), Stanford University, 2000-04
Awards
- Departmental Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland, 2009
- National Science Foundation Career Award, 2002
- Haim Nessyahu Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Mathematics in Israel, 1998, Israel Mathematical Union (IMU).
- Nemirovsky Doctoral Fellowship in Mathematics and Computer Science, 1996
- Ami Harten Award for Excellence in Applied Math Graduate Studies, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1996
- Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1990, 94
- M.Sc. Excellence Award, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1992
Grants
- NSF/NIGMS 2008 - 12, PI together with Devaki Bhaya (Carnegie Institution): Social dynamics, signaling, and surface motility in Cyanobacteria
- NIH R01, 2008 - 12, Co-PI with Peter Lee (Hematology, Stanford): Interplay between cancer and immune cells on targeted therapy
- NIH R01, 2006 - 09, With Lei Xing (PI, Radiation Oncology, Stanford): Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) dose optimization
- DOD, 2006 - 11, With Peter Lee (PI, Hematology, Stanford) and Susan Holmes (Statistics, Stanford): Immunobiology, systems biology, and immunotherapy of breast cancer
- NSF Career, 2002 - 07, PI: Partial differential equation-based image processing with applications to radiation oncology
Editorial Board
Other Professional Activities
- Referee for the State Department, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
- Referee for over 20 research journals
- Developed undergraduate and graduate level courses on Mathematical Biology, Wavelets, Dynamical Systems, Numerical Analysis, and Advanced Computational Methods.
- Member of the American Mathematical Society Menger Prize Committee (for high-school students)
- Lectured on math to kindergarden kids, junior-high students, high-school students, and continuing studies students.
- Served as the advisor of postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
Selected Invited Talks
- Invited talk: 1st International Workshop on Differential and Integral Equations with Application in Biology and Medicine, Samos, Greece, September 2010
- Invited talk: 1st International Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Systems Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel, January 2010
- Invited talk: Mathematical Developments Arising from Biology, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, November 2009
- Invited talk: Scottish Computational Math Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2009
- Mutiscale Analysis of Self-Organization in Biology, Banff, Canada, July 2009
- Keynote speaker: Math Biology Workshop: on building an interdisciplinary career, University of Utah, May 2009
- Plenary talk: Joe Keller's 85 Birthday Conference, Stanford University, October 2008
- Keynote speaker: American Mathematical Society briefing in Capitol Hill, US Congress, September 2008
- Invited talk: IEEE Signal Processing Washington Chapter, November 2007
- Invited talk: 2007 Clifford Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, March 2007
- Invited talk: Eleventh international conference on hyperbolic problems (HYP 2006), Lyon, France, July 2006
- Invited talk: Biology and control theory: current challenges, Toulouse, France, April 2006
- Colloquium and seminar talks: Cornell, New Jersey Tech, University of Arizona (Tucson), University of Utah, Columbia, Arizona State (Pheonix), Duke, Rutgers, ENS Paris, Maryland, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), University of Chicago, UC San Diego, Michigan State, Toronto, University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser, North Carolina State, Tulane, UCLA, UC Irvine, UC Davis, 2003-08
- Plenary talk: Numerical methods for viscosity solutions and applications, Rome, Italy, September 2004
- Plenary talk: Equation de Saint Venant, Bourget-du-Lac, France, May 2002
- Obserwolfach conferences: "Mathematical Biology", "Hyperbolic Conservation Laws".
Conferences Organizer
- Stiff Sources and Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws (with Perthame), AIM, Palo Alto, 2005
- Numerical Methods for Geophysical Flows (with Kurganov), SIAM, New Orleans, 2005
- Numerical Methods for Optimal Control in High Dimensions (with Oberman and Mitchell), AIM, Palo Alto, 2005
- Numerical Methods for Degenerate Elliptic Equations and Applications (with Souganidis, Oberman and Mitchell), PIMS, Banff, 2006