Andreas Mang

Research Interests

The goal of my research is the development, analysis, and deployment of computational and mathematical methods that integrate data with simulation and optimization with the aspiration to support decision making in challenging problems in the applied sciences.

News

• 02/26Serving as SIAM Coordinating Committee member for JMM2027 in Chicago, IL
• 01/26Talk in CMOR Colloquium Series at Rice University, March 30, 2026
• 01/26Virtual talk at HPE Data Science Institute, UH, February 26, 2026
• 11/25Co-organizing mini-symposium at SIAM UQ26, Minneapolis, March 22-25, 2026
• 10/25Co-chair for SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS26), Salt Lake City, November 16-20, 2026
• 10/25Long Term Visitor at ICERM Special Semester, Providence, RI, January 20 – April 24, 2026
• 10/25Co-organizing workshop at Casa Matemática Oaxaca, May 31 – June 5, 2026

Open Positions and Academic Advising

I have research projects for graduate and undergraduate students. Undergraduate students must be currently enrolled at the University of Houston. Graduate students need to apply to the graduate program of the Department of Mathematics. More information about the program and the requirements to obtain a Ph.D. degree from our department can be found here. Information on how to apply to our Ph.D. program can be found here. Contact the graduate studies director listed on this page for more information. Only contact me directly if (i) you are already enrolled in the program or (ii) you want to work with me and have specific questions about my research. Information about current research directions of my group can be found here.

I do not have any positions or financial support for research or teaching assistants for students that are not enrolled in our PhD program. Please refrain from sending me any requests. I generally do not respond to emails enquiring for these types of positions due to the volume of requests I receive.

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Older News

2025

• Attended the IMSI workshop “Optimal Control and Decision Making Under Uncertainty for Digital Twins” in Chicago, IL, October 27-31, 2025.
• Co-organized (w/ E. Hartman & N. Charon (UHouston)) a mini-symposium on “Recent Advances in High-Dimensional and Geometric Data Analysis” at the 2025 SIAM TXLA Annual Meeting in Austin, TX, September 26-28, 2025.
• Attended ICCOPT in Los Angeles, CA, July 19-24, 2025.
• Attended SIAM AN25 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 28-August 1, 2025.
• Co-organized ChAMELEON summer school at the University of Houston, TX.
• Participated in the “Inverse Methods for Complex Systems under Uncertainty ASCR Workshop” sponsored by the U.S. DOE, Washington DC, June 10-12, 2025.
• Co-organized (w/ A. K. Saibaba (NCState)) a mini-symposium on “Data- and Model-driven Approaches for Inverse Problems” at SIAM AN25 in Montreal.
• Attended the NSF Computational Mathematics Meeting at the University of Utah, May 8-9, 2025.
• Presented work at the TAMIDS SciML Summer School at Texas A&M, May 12-16, 2025.
• Co-organized (w/ L. Cappanera, Y. He & M. Wang) the CBMS Conference “Research at the Interface of Applied Mathematics and Machine Learning” (NSF Award #2430460).
• Co-organized (w/ J. Rudi & I.-G. Farcas) a mini-symposium at SIAM CSE25 in Fort Worth, TX, March 3-7, 2025.
• Presented research at DTE & AICOMAS in Paris, France, February 17-21, 2025.

2024

• Co-organized a mini-symposium (w/ M. Chung (Emory)) at SIAM MDS24, Atlanta, GA, October 21-25, 2024.
• Co-organized a mini-symposium (w/ D. Onofrei (UH)) at SIAM TX-LA, Baylor University, Waco, TX, October 11-13, 2024.
• Presented research at MOPTA at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, August 14-16, 2024.
• Presented research at the INFORMS Optimization Society Conference at Rice University, Houston, TX.
• Co-organized (w/ A. Arnold (WPI)) a mini-symposium at CMBE, George Mason University, Arlington, VA.
• Co-organized (w/ J. Modersitzki & J. Lellmann) a mini-symposium at SIAM IS, Atlanta, GA.
• Co-organized (w/ E. Newman & S. Gamble) a mini-symposium at SIAM IS, Atlanta, GA.
• Presented work on CLAIRE at SIAM UQ24, Trieste, IT, February 27-March 1, 2024.
• Co-organized (w/ A. Arnold) a mini-symposium at SIAM UQ24, Trieste, IT.
• Organized a SIAM Minisymposium at JMM24, San Francisco, January 3-6, 2024.

2023

• German Villalobos successfully defended his dissertation.
• Attended the workshop on “Mathematical Opportunities in Digital Twins” at George Mason University, December 11-13, 2023.
• Co-organized (w/ A. Mamonov & D. Onofrei) a mini-symposium at SIAM TX-LA, Lafayette, LA, November 3-5, 2023.
• Jae Youn Kim successfully defended her dissertation.
• Received the “Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity” from the Division of Research at UH.
• Presented work at Virginia Tech, Texas A&M (CAMDA), University of Kansas, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, and NIST.
• Attended USNCCM17 in Albuquerque, NM, July 23-27, 2023.
• Participated in BIRS workshop at UCB Okanagan, June 25-30, 2023.
• Participated in INdAM workshop “LIP: Learning for Inverse Problems” in Rome, IT, June 5-9, 2023.
• Co-organized mini-symposia at SIAMOP23 (w/ G. Biros) and SIAM CSE23 (w/ J. Rudi & T. Bui-Thanh).
• Co-organized Dagstuhl Seminar on “Inverse Biophysical Modeling and Machine Learning in Personalized Oncology”, January 8-13, 2023.

2022

• Received the NSF CAREER Award (DMS-2145845).
• Received the NSM Junior Faculty Award For Excellence in Research.
• Book review for SIAM Review selected as Featured Review (Vol. 64, No. 2, 2022).
• Member of the organizing committee for SIAM TXLA22 at UH, November 4-6, 2022.
• Presented work at SIAM MDS22, San Diego, CA, and George Mason University.
• Co-organized mini-symposia at SIAM MDS22 (w/ D. Labate) and SIAM IS22 (w/ G. Biros, M. Schulte, N. Charon).
• Presented research at the Copper Mountain Conference, April 4-8, 2022.

2021

• Presented work at SIAM AN21, SIAM OP21, SIAM CSE21, and JMM.
• Co-organized mini-symposia at SIAM OP21 (w/ G. Biros) and SIAM CSE21 (w/ H. Goh & T. Bui-Thanh).
• Presented work at the Oden Institute seminar at UT Austin.

2020

• Sorena Sarmadi successfully defended his dissertation.
• Presented work at SIAM TX-LA, SIAM IS, and SIAM MDS.
• Co-organized mini-symposia at SIAM TX-LA (w/ S. Subramanian) and SIAM MDS (w/ D. Labate).

2019

• Presented work at NeurIPS Workshop, Society for Neuro-Oncology, AMS Sectional, ICIAM, AIP Conference, and other venues.
• Visited University of Twente and ENS Paris-Saclay.
• Co-organized mini-symposia at SIAM TX-LA (w/ T. Bui-Thanh), ICIAM (w/ J. Herring), AIP (w/ J. Herring), and SIAM CSE19 (w/ J. Herring & G. Biros).

2018

• Ms. Brenda Gonzalez received the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
• Presented work at SIAM AN18, PMAA (ETH Zurich), SIAM IS18 (Bologna), and Rice University.
• Visited University Stuttgart, June 11-22, 2018.
• Co-organized (w/ G. Biros) a mini-symposium at SIAM IS18.

2017

• Amir Gholaminejad won the Best Student Paper Award at SC’17.
• Work featured on the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) website.
• Presented work at USNCCM14, AIP Conference (Hangzhou), and SIAM CSE (Atlanta).
• Co-organized (w/ G. Biros) a mini-symposium at SIAM CSE17.

2016

• Presented work at SC16, SIAM IS (Albuquerque), SIAM UQ (Lausanne), and Emory University.
• Co-organized (w/ G. Biros) a mini-symposium at SIAM IS16.

2015

• Attended SC 2015 in Austin.
• Participated in IdeaLab at ICERM, Brown University.
• Presented work at SIAM CSE15, TU Munich, and OCIP 2015.
• Co-organized (w/ G. Biros) a mini-symposium at SIAM CSE15.

2014

• Presented talks at University of Luebeck, UT Austin (Germanic Studies and DiaMonD seminar).
• Attended the DiaMonD All-Hands Meeting at MIT, November 12-14, 2014.