Scholar
Panagiota Birmpa
Google Scholar ID: khWAWgwAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt Univeristy
Citations & Impact
Citations
15
H-index
3
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0
Publications
9
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded LMS Scheme 9 Grant (Celebrating New Appointments grant), 2024; Awarded Maxwell Institute Event Funding (in collaboration with P. Dobson, M. Majka, F. Tudisco), 2024; Talk on 'Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs' in the SIAM Uncertainty Quantification 2024, Trieste, Italy, 27 Feb.-1 Mar., 2024; Organizer of the mini-symposium 'Optimal Transport for Uncertainty Quantification' in the SIAM Uncertainty Quantification 2024, Trieste, Italy, 27 Feb.-1 Mar., 2024 (together with B. Zhang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Additionally, scheduled to give talks or organize sessions at several international conferences.
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University; Previously a Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst (2018-2022).
Education
- PhD in Mathematics (Topic: Quantification of Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Fluctuations in Interacting Particle Systems, supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis), 2018, University of Sussex, UK; MSc in Pure Mathematics, 2014, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece; BSc+MSc (integrated master) in Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences (5 Year-degree), 2011, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.
Background
- Research interests include: Generative modeling, Scientific Machine learning, Uncertainty Quantification, Probabilistic Graphical models, Interacting Particle Systems, Optimal transport Theory and Partial Differential Equations.
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