Traian Iliescu

Traian Iliescu is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, received the SIAM Student Paper Prize in 1999, and was the 2000-2001 James Hardy Wilkinson Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. Iliescu’s research focuses on the numerical simulation and analysis of turbulent engineering and geophysical flows, with special emphasis on data-driven Galerkin methods and reduced order models.