CV

Education

Ph.D. Numerical Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, 2006
- Absorbing Layers and Non-Reflecting Boundary Conditions for Wave Propagation Problems
- Advisor: Prof. Gunilla Kreiss
Licentiate degree, Numerical Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 2003
- Non-reflecting Boundary Conditions for Wave Propagation Problems
- Advisor: Prof. Gunilla Kreiss
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 2001


2023–	Professor, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
2020–2023	Associate Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering and Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
2017–2020	Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder
2017, 2018, 2019, 2022	Visiting Professor in Scientific Computing (summers), Uppsala University, Sweden
2016–2017	Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of New Mexico
2011–2016	Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of New Mexico
2008–2011	Postdoctoral scholar in Mechanical Engineering, Caltech (advisor: Prof. Tim Colonius)
2008–2009	Postdoctoral scholar in Applied Computational Mathematics, Caltech (advisor: Prof. Oscar Bruno)
2006–2008	Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (advisor: Dr. Anders Petersson)
2006	Hans Werthen Prize postdoctoral scholar, University of New Mexico (advisor: Prof. Thomas Hagstrom)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Faculty Mini-Sabbatical Program, 2025
SLMath Complementary Program, 2025
Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), semester program Numerical PDEs: Analysis, Algorithms, and Data Challenges, 2024
Program for Mathematics, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation — Visiting Professor at Uppsala University, 2019
BOLD (Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity) Faculty Fellow, 2018
IMPART Award, Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching, 2018
Hans-Werthen Prize, 2006
Generaldirektör Waldemar Borgeman prize, 2001 and 2004
Erik Petersohns minnesfond prize, 2002 and 2005
Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas minne prize, 2004 and 2005

Machine-learning-assisted practical quantum error correction via optimal control. Co-PI. Army Research Office, QC3 BAA, 2026–2030.
Quantum Digital Twins. PI. DOE-EXPRESS, 2024–2026.
Collaborative Research: MATH-DT: Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Digital Twins. Co-PI. NSF, 2025–2028.
High Order Wave Equation Algorithms for Frequency Domain Problems. PI. NSF DMS 2208164, 2022–2026.

NRT-AI-HDR: Harnessing the data revolution to enable predictive multi-scale modeling across STEM. PI. NSF 2152014, 2022–2027.
Numerical Methods for Wave Equations in Time and Frequency Domain. PI. NSF DMS 1913076 & 2210286, 2019–2023.
DOE Tough Errors Are no Match (TEAM): Optimizing the quantum compiler for noise resilience. Co-PI. Part of the DOE Accelerated Research in Quantum Computing (ARQC) program, 2019–2024.
STINT Initiation Grant: Computational Methods for Wave Propagation. Co-PI, 2019.
Hybrid Hermite-Discontinuous Galerkin Methods with Applications to Elastic and Electromagnetic Waves. PI. NSF DMS-1319054, 2013–2017.
ARRA Caltech Subaward: Simulation and analysis of jet noise. PI. NSF / Caltech, 2012–2014.

Associate Editor, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation (specialty section of Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics), 2022–
Associate Editor, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 2014–2017

Organizing Committee, SIAM CSE 2027
Organizing Committee, WAVES 2026
SIAM Education Committee, 2025–2027
Scientific Committee, Waves 2024, Berlin
Scientific Committee, Waves 2022, Paris
Scientific Committee, 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, 2014