Presenter

Florian Schäfer is an assistant professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Prior to joining Courant, he was an assistant professor at Georgia Tech and received his PhD in applied and computational mathematics at Caltech, working with Houman Owhadi. Before that, he received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mathematics at the University of Bonn. His research addresses fundamental problems in computational science and engineering using insights from statistics and decision theory. It was awarded a SIGGRAPH best technical paper award, a Gordon Bell Prize finalist designation, and the W. P. Carey & Co. Prize in Applied Mathematics at Caltech. Together with Brendan Keith, he co-directs the PSAAP IV FIC for Information Geometric Mechanics and Optimization (CIGMO).