BU Professor Konstantinos Spiliopoulos Awarded Prestigious Simons Foundation Fellowship in Mathematics
The Simons Foundation has chosen Konstantinos Spiliopoulos, a Boston University Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and CISE faculty affiliate, as one of only 40 distinguished scientists to be named a 2020 Simons Fellow in Mathematics. Dr. Spiliopoulos was chosen by a committee of distinguished scientists based on his scientific accomplishments over the past five years, and the potential scientific impact of the work to be done during his fellowship.
The Simons Foundation Fellowship is designed to provide strong intellectual stimulation, leading to increased creativity and productivity in research by funding sabbatical research leave for selected fellows. Through the Simons fellowship, Dr. Spiliopoulos will begin a year-long sabbatical next fall, conducting his research at Boston University and the Data Science Center within MIT IDSS to advance research in stochastic methods and metastability in SPDEs and neural networks.
“Professor Spiliopoulos is an exceptionally productive and versatile mathematician whose broad research program spans stochastic processes, partial differential equations, probability, and statistics,” says David Rohrlich, Department Chair and Professor, Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University College of Arts & Sciences. “He is eminently deserving of this award.”
Dr. Spiliopoulos works at the intersection of applied mathematics, probability and statistics. His research has focused on rigorously addressing important questions on large deviations phenomena and asymptotic methods in stochastic processes and applied mathematics. With the fellowship, he will build on that work, studying two different but related problems involving asymptotic problems for SPDEs with multiple stable equilibria, and mathematical formulation of deep learning models.
Dr. Spiliopoulos’ work has been recognized with a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation through which he has published numerous papers in the areas of Multiscale Stochastic Processes, Monte Carlo Methods and Irreversibility. In addition to his academic appointment in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University, Dr. Spiliopoulos is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University and a junior faculty fellow at the Hariri Institute at Boston University. He completed his PhD at the Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland at College Park. Earlier, he was Prager Assistant Professor at the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University (2009-2012). Dr. Spiliopoulos completed his undergraduate studies in Applied Mathematics and Physics at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece (NTUA).
By Maureen Stanton, CISE Staff