RESEARCH

Overview
Statistical dynamics, McKean-Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equations. Global optimization, optimal control for PDEs and Machine Learning. Analysis, statistical inference and numerical methods for multiscale stochastic dynamical systems. Molecular dynamics and computational statistical mechanics.
Global optimization, optimal control for PDEs, machine learning: Development and analysis of global optimization algorithms. Optimal control for agent-based models and for McKean-Vlasov PDEs. Applications to learning algorithms.
Numerical Analysis and Statistical Inference: Parameter estimation for multiscale diffusions and for McKean SDEs.
Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Development and analysis of accelerated sampling techniques. MCMC for multiscale probability measures. Computational statistical mechanics.
Diffusion processes and stochastic differential equations: spectral theory for hypoelliptic operators, asymptotic problems for non-Markovian processes, averaging/homogenization for SDEs.
Statistical mechanics: dynamical density functional theory, mean field limits for interacting diffusions, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, kinetic theory and transport processes.

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Statistical mechanics of soft matter: Derivation, analysis and implementation of dynamic density functional theories
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)30 Nov 2014 - 29 Nov 2017
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC): Statistical mechanics of soft matter: Derivation, analysis and implementation of dynamic density functional theories (2014-2017)
  • GRANT
    Active-dissipative nonlinear spatially extended media: Complexity, coarse-graining, multiscale analysis and numerical methods
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)1 Oct 2010 - 31 Mar 2014
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC): Active-dissipative nonlinear spatially extended media: Complexity, coarse-graining, multiscale analysis and numerical methods (2010-2014)
  • OTHER AWARD
    Machine-Aided General Framework for Fluctuating Dynamic Density Functional Theory
    EU Underwrite - EPSRC
    EU Underwrite - EPSRC: Machine-Aided General Framework for Fluctuating Dynamic Density Functional Theory (2023-2028)
  • PROGRAMME GRANT
    Multiscale Analysis of Complex Interfacial Phenomena (MACIPh): Coarse graining, Molecular modelling, stochasticity, and experimentation
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC): Multiscale Analysis of Complex Interfacial Phenomena (MACIPh): Coarse graining, Molecular modelling, stochasticity, and experimentation (2014-2020)