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

• Apr 2026I am going to attend the ILAS26 conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, May 18–22
• Apr 2026Talk at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, May 1, 2026
• Mar 2026A SIAM news article for our CMBS Conference hosted at the University of Houston last year has appeared: SIAM News Article
• Mar 2026You can download the flyer for SIAM MDS26 here
• Mar 2026Talk at the Department of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research (CMOR) at Rice University, March 30, 2026
• Feb 2026Serving as SIAM Coordinating Committee member for JMM2027 in Chicago, IL
• Jan 2026Virtual talk at HPE Data Science Institute, UH, February 26, 2026
• Nov 2025Co-organizing (w/ R. White (Sandia)) a mini-symposium at SIAM UQ26, Minneapolis, March 22–25, 2026
• Oct 2025Co-chair for SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS26), Salt Lake City, November 16–20, 2026
• Oct 2025Long Term Visitor at ICERM Special Semester, Providence, RI, January 20 – April 24, 2026
• Oct 2025Co-organizing workshop at Casa Matemática Oaxaca, May 31 – June 5, 2026 (more info: workshop announcement)

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 (UHouston)) 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 (ULuebeck) & J. Lellmann (ULuebeck)) a mini-symposium at SIAM IS, Atlanta, GA.
• Co-organized (w/ E. Newman (Emory) & S. Gamble (NREL)) a mini-symposium at SIAM IS, Atlanta, GA.
• Chhoa Jannatul successfully defended his dissertation.
• Presented work on CLAIRE at SIAM UQ24, Trieste, IT, February 27-March 1, 2024.
• Co-organized (w/ A. Arnold (WPI)) a mini-symposium at SIAM UQ24, Trieste, IT.
• Organized a SIAM Minisymposium at JMM24, San Francisco, January 3-6, 2024.

For news from 2023 and earlier, see the news archive.