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  • October 1, 2025

    Bianca successfully defends her PhD Thesis! Congratulations!

    Bianca successfully defends her PhD Thesis! Congratulations!

    Our student Bianca Champenois successfully defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Physics-driven machine learning for applications in geophysical fluid dynamics”. She will continue her academic path as postdoc at Princeton! Congratulations!

  • September 21, 2025

    Andreas graduates with a PhD. Congratulations!!!

    Andreas graduates with a PhD. Congratulations!!!

    Andreas Mentzelopoulos successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Firstling Digital Twin: Data-Driven Time-Space Forecasting and Simulation of Vortex-Induced Vibrations”. Congratulations!!!

  • July 6, 2024

    Prof. Sapsis receives the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, DoD’s most prestigious single PI award, for research on extreme events

    Prof. Sapsis receives the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, DoD’s most prestigious single PI award, for research on extreme events

    https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3825496/dod-announces-2024-vannevar-bush-fellows-to-pursue-breakthrough-research

  • March 28, 2024

    Prof. Sapsis comments at the NYT about the ship’s force in the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    Prof. Sapsis comments at the NYT about the ship’s force in the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/28/upshot/baltimore-bridge-ship-force.html

  • March 26, 2024

    Paper on extreme climate events featured in the MIT News

    Paper on extreme climate events featured in the MIT News

    https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-derived-algorithm-helps-forecast-frequency-extreme-weather-0326

  • February 28, 2024

    Paper on a new method for debiasing climate model outputs for extreme event statistics to appear to Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

    Paper on a new method for debiasing climate model outputs for extreme event statistics to appear to Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

    The new method allows for accurate quantification of statistics even for events that have return period that is much longer than the training data. Paper can be downloaded here.

  • January 20, 2024

    Prof. Sapsis appointed Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering

    Prof. Sapsis appointed Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering
  • October 3, 2023

    Paper on active learning for optimal interventions using causality models has been accepted to Nature Machine Intelligence and featured on the MIT News

    Paper on active learning for optimal interventions using causality models has been accepted to Nature Machine Intelligence and featured on the MIT News

    The paper can be downloaded here. MIT article can be found here. 

  • July 11, 2023

    Paper on physics and forecasting of extreme separation events in airfoil flows has been accepted to AIAA Journal

    Paper on physics and forecasting of extreme separation events in airfoil flows has been accepted to AIAA Journal

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  • June 2, 2023

    Stephen successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations!

    Stephen successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations!

    Stephen successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Analytical and computational methods for non-Gaussian reliability analysis of nonlinear systems operating in stochastic environments”. Warm congratulations!

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