Scholar
George Stepaniants
Google Scholar ID: CKYZLxYAAAAJ
Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
144
H-index
5
i10-index
5
Publications
11
Co-authors
20
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Invited Speaker, Banff BIRS Workshop on Efficient and Reliable Deep Learning (June 2025).
- Invited Speaker, Fields Institute Symposium on Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems (June 2025).
- NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MSPRF) awardee (September 2024).
- Recipient of IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award (one of three nationwide, September 2024).
- Presented at Armenian Statistics Summer School under Calouste Gulbenkian Travel Grant (June 2023).
- Invited Speaker, CIRM Meeting on Mathematical Statistics (December 2021).
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) and MIT Presidential Fellowship recipient (September 2019).
- Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society (June 2019).
Background
- Develops methods to learn mathematical and physical laws from simulated and experimental data, integrating numerical analysis, mechanics, statistics, and machine learning to succeed in data-limited regimes with scientifically informed inductive biases.
- Addresses three core challenges: (I) alignment and pooling of scientific data from disparate sources; (II) inference of governing physical laws under noisy and sparse data; (III) design of memory-dependent (autoregressive) and higher-order models to compensate for partial observability in dynamical systems.
- Applies methodological advances to domains including biochemistry, materials science, and fluid mechanics.
- Teaching philosophy emphasizes guiding students to discover mathematical ideas in domain-specific literature, formalize them into well-posed theories, and implement them as reproducible numerical algorithms.
- Seeking tenure-track positions in applied and computational mathematics, data science, statistics, and engineering departments during 2025–2027.
