Themis Sapsis
Brief bio
Dr. Sapsis is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) and the Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CSSE). He received a Diploma in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Technical University of Athens, Greece and a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Ocean Engineering from MIT. Before his faculty appointment at MIT he served as Research Scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He has also been a visiting faculty at ETH-Zurich. Prof. Sapsis work lies on the interface of nonlinear dynamical systems, probabilistic modeling and data-driven methods. A particular emphasis of his work is the formulation of mathematical methods for the prediction, statistical quantification and optimization of complex engineering and physical systems such as turbulent fluid flows in engineering and geophysical settings, nonlinear ocean waves, and extreme ship motions. He has received numerous awards including three Young Investigator Awards (Navy, Army and Air-Force research office), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, and more recently the Verisk AI Faculty Research Award, the MathWorks Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship, the ASME Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Award and the Bodossaki Award on Basic Sciences: Mathematics. |
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Editorial Boards
2017- | Associate Editor | SIAM/ASA Journal of Uncertainty Quantification |
2017- | Associate Editor | Springer-Nature Nonlinear Dynamics |
2014- | Associate Editor | International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering |
2017 | Guest Editor | ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics |
Awards
2021 | Bodossaki Award on Basic Sciences: Mathematics |
2020 | Verisk AI Faculty Research Award |
2020 | Inaugural awardee of the MathWorks Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship, School of Engineering, MIT |
2020 | ASME Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Best Paper Award |
2017 | Doherty Associate Professor Chair in Ocean Utilization, MIT |
2016 | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) - Young Investigator Award |
2015 | Office of Naval Research (ONR) - Young Investigator Award |
2015 | Army Research Office (ARO) - Young Investigator Award |
2015 | Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Ocean Sciences |
2013 | Inaugural recipient of the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Chair, MIT |
2011 | NSF Travel Award, Foundations of Computational Mathematics – Computational Dynamics Workshop, Budapest |
2009 | Best paper award for young scientists, 2nd Chaotic Modelling and Simulation Conference (Chaos), Crete |
2009 | Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union to attend CF SICON (Stability, Identification and Control), Rome |
2009 | Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union to attend TC4 SICON Event, Lyon |
2007-2010 | Onassis Foundation Fellowship |
2006-2008 | MIT Presidential Fellowship 'George and Marie Vergottis' |
2006 | RINA (Royal Institution of Naval Architects) - GSCC Award for best diploma thesis |
2005 | Medal of the National Technical University of Athens for ranking first in class of 2005 |
2001-2005 | Fellowship from the State Fellowship Foundation of Greece |
2001-2005 | Fellowship from the Technical Chamber of Greece |
2.122 Stochastic Systems 2.003/1.053 Dynamics and Control I 2.081/16.230 Plates and Shells: Static and Dynamic Analysis 2.700/2.701 Principles of Naval Architecture |
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SIAM, ASME, APS, ISOPE, SNAME |