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Prof. Laurent Demanet
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Primary DLC
Department of Mathematics
MIT Room:
2-247
(617) 324-2614
ldemanet@mit.edu
https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.html?pid=1143
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Scientific Computing
Data Analysis
Large-Scale Inverse Problems
Compressed Sensing
Particular Emphasis on Novel Algorithms for Seismic Imaging
Research Summary
Laurent Demanet is Professor of Applied Mathematics, in the Department of Mathematics at MIT. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, where he is the Director of MIT's Earth Resources Laboratory.
Previously, he was Szego assistant professor (a postdoctoral position) in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2006 under Emmanuel Candes, in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech. He completed his undergraduate studies in mathematical engineering and theoretical physics at Universite de Louvain, Belgium.
He is the recipient of a Sloan research fellowship, a CAREER award from NSF, and a Young Investigator award from AFOSR. His research interests include applied analysis, scientific computing, machine learning, inverse problems, and wave propagation. His group studies the mathematical and numerical challenges of inverse wave scattering.
Recent Work
Projects
October 21, 2013
Department of Mathematics
Super-Resolution and Subwavelength Imaging
Principal Investigator
Laurent Demanet
June 5, 2013
Department of Mathematics
Imaging and Computing Group (ICG)
Principal Investigator
Laurent Demanet
June 5, 2013
Department of Mathematics
Matrix Probing: Randomized Fitting for the Wave-Equation Hessian
Principal Investigator
Laurent Demanet
June 5, 2013
Department of Mathematics
A Butterfly Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
Principal Investigator
Laurent Demanet
June 5, 2013
Department of Mathematics
Wave Computation with Fourier Integral Operators
Principal Investigator
Laurent Demanet
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Prof. Haynes R Miller
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
Mateo Monterde
Undergraduate Researcher
Prof. Steven G Johnson
Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics