Scholar
Franca Hoffmann
Google Scholar ID: Vr8aBm4AAAAJ
California Institute of Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
822
H-index
15
i10-index
20
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the 2016 Imperial College Outstanding Student Achievement Award; Publications (specific list not provided).
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech; International Scientific Advisor at Quantum Leap Africa, AIMS; Previously a Bonn Junior Fellow with the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, and the AIMS-Carnegie Research Chair in Data Science at Quantum Leap Africa; Von Karman Postdoctoral Instructor in Applied and Computational Mathematics at the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 2017 to 2020.
Education
- PhD: Completed in July 2017 at the Cambridge Centre for Analysis (CCA) Doctoral Training Centre, University of Cambridge, and Imperial College London, supervised by Prof. José A. Carrillo and Prof. Clément Mouhot.
Background
- Research interests: partial differential equations and their applications, combining data-driven and model-driven approaches. Specializes in non-linear drift-diffusion equations, kinetic theory, many particle systems, gradient flows, entropy methods, optimal transport, functional inequalities, parabolic and hyperbolic scaling techniques, hypocoercivity, and diffusive models in mathematical biology. In data analysis, focuses on inverse problems, Bayesian inference and machine learning, unsupervised and semi-supervised learning, data clustering and classification, graph Laplacians and their continuum counterparts, spectral analysis, uncertainty quantification, and consistency analysis.
Miscellany
- Engaged in academic activities in Africa, serving as Program Director of the new Doctoral Training Program in Data Science (DTP-DS) at Quantum Leap Africa (QLA) in Kigali, Rwanda; Has an interest in music.
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