Yannís G. Kevrekidis Explained

Yannis G. Kevrekidis
Honorific Prefix:Bloomberg Chair
Birth Place:Greece
Nationality:Greek
American
Field:Chemical Engineering
Mathematics
Work Institution:Princeton University
Johns Hopkins University
Alma Mater:National Technical University of Athens (Dipl. Chem. Eng., 1981)
University of Minnesota (MA, 1986, Ph.D., 1987)
Doctoral Advisor:Lanny Schmidt
Rutherford Aris
Known For:Modeling of Complex Systems
Reaction Engineering
Algorithms
Prizes:American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2017), J.S. Guggenheim Fellow (2005), Packard Foundation Fellowship (1988)

Ioannis George (Yannís) Kevrekidis is currently the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering within the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University.[1] He holds secondary appointments in the Whiting School's Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Department of Urology.

Early life and education

Yannis was born in Athens, Greece. He earned a diploma in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1981. He subsequently earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 1986. At the same time, he worked towards a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1987, under the supervision of Lanny D. Schmidt. His thesis was titled, "On the Dynamics of Chemical Reactions and Reactors".[2] He published eight journal articles with his advisors including:

Kevrekidis completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1985-1986) in the Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division.[6]

Career and research

Kevrekidis joined Princeton University in 1986 as an assistant professor of engineering. He was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1994.[6] In 2007, he became the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Engineering, a position which he held until 2017. At the same time, he was an associated faculty member in the Princeton Department of Mathematics and senior faculty member in the program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. In 2017, he became the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Urology.[7]

His research interests include scientific computation for complex/multiscale systems modeling;process dynamics, computer modeling, and applied mathematics; spatiotemporal pattern formation; and nonlinear system identification and control. His research has also focused on the dynamic behavior of physical, chemical, and biological processes; the types of instabilities they exhibit; the patterns they form; and their computational study.[8] Kevrekidis developed what he named the “equation-free” approach to complex systems modeling and is now working on linking it with modern data mining and machine learning techniques in what could be called an “equation-free and variable-free” approach.[9]

Honors and awards

In 2003 he was awarded the J.D. Crawford Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for outstanding research in nonlinear science.[10]

In 2010, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers awarded him the Richard H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering.[11]

In 2017, Kevrekidis was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, class I (Mathematical and Physical Sciences), Section 5 (Engineering Sciences and Technologies). His election citation states:

Until June 30, 2017, he was the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Engineering and professor of chemical and biological engineering with the school of engineering and applied science at Princeton University.[12]

In 2020, Kevrekidis was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.[13]

Other honors include but are not limited to:

Kevrekidis has also participated in numerous fellowships including the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship of the Einstein Foundation and Zuse Institute (2016–2018), the Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship of the Institute for Advanced Study in Munich (2015-2018), and the Microsoft Fellowship of the Isaac Newton Institute (2013).

Selected works

Kevrekidis has more than 22,000 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 79.[17]

Google Scholar citations

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: New Faculty Arriving July 1. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Johns Hopkins University. 21 December 2017. 2017-03-21.
  2. Web site: Ioannis Kevrekidis . Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering . Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering . 12 April 2018.
  3. Rate Multiplicity and Oscillations in Single Species Surface Reactions. Surface Science. 137. 151–166. 10.1016/0039-6028(84)90682-4. 1984. Kevrekidis. I.. Schmidt. L.D.. Aris. R..
  4. On the Dynamics of Peridically Forced Chemical Reactors. Chemical Engineering Communications. 30. 6. 323–330. 10.1080/00986448408911136. 1984. Kevrekidis. I.G.. Schmidt. L.D.. Aris. R..
  5. On the Dynamics of Peridically Forced Chemical Reactors . Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena . 23 . 1–3 . 391–395 . 10.1016/0167-2789(86)90145-4 . 1986 . Kevrekidis . I.G. . Aris . R. . Schmidt . L.D..
  6. Web site: Yannis Kevrekidis . Johns Hopkins University . October 30, 2017. 12 April 2018.
  7. Web site: Ioannis Kevrekidis, an expert in complex systems modeling, joins Johns Hopkins as Bloomberg Distinguished Professor . Saralyn . Lyons . Hub . Johns Hopkins University . 12 April 2018. 2017-05-30.
  8. Web site: Yannis G. Kevrekidis. 2021-01-21. scholar.princeton.edu. en.
  9. Web site: Yannis Kevrekidis. 2021-01-21. Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. en-US.
  10. Web site: J.D. Crawford Prize. SIAM. 20 May 2015.
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  12. Web site: Kevrekidis named Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Engineering. January 30, 2007. Chemical and Biological Engineering . Princeton University. 2015-05-21.
  13. Web site: 2020-02-07. Two from Johns Hopkins named to National Academy of Engineering. 2021-05-04. The Hub. en.
  14. Web site: Yannis G. Kevrekidis . 12 April 2018.
  15. Winners: Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute . AIChE. 12 April 2018.
  16. Web site: Winners: R. H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering. 12 April 2018 . AIChE.
  17. Web site: Ioannis Kevrekidis. 2021-05-19. scholar.google.com.
  18. Back in the saddle again: a computer assisted study of the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97. 18. 9840–9843. 10.1073/pnas.97.18.9840. 2000. Theodoropoulos. C.. Qian. Y.-H.. Kevrekidis. I. G.. 10963656. 27601. free.
  19. Alternative Approaches to the Karhunen-Loève Decomposition for Model Reduction and Data Analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97. 18. 9840–9843. 10.1073/pnas.97.18.9840. 10963656. 2000. Theodoropoulos. C.. Qian. Y.-H.. Kevrekidis. I. G.. 27601. free.
  20. "Coarse" stability and bifurcation analysis using time-steppers: A reaction-diffusion example. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97. 18. 9840–9843. 10.1073/pnas.97.18.9840. 10963656. 2000. Theodoropoulos. C.. Qian. Y.-H.. Kevrekidis. I. G.. 27601. free.
  21. Equation-free, coarse-grained multiscale computation: Enabling mocroscopic simulators to perform system-level analysis. Communications in Mathematical Sciences. 1. 4. 715–762. 12 April 2018. December 2003. Theodoropoulos. Constantinos. Runborg. Olof. Kevrekidid. Panagiotis G.. Hyman. James M.. Gear. C. William. Kevrekidis. Ioannis G.. 10.4310/CMS.2003.v1.n4.a5. free.
  22. Diffusion maps, spectral clustering and reaction coordinates of dynamical systems. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. 21. 113–127. 10.1016/j.acha.2005.07.004. 2006. Nadler. Boaz. Lafon. Stéphane. Coifman. Ronald R.. Kevrekidis. Ioannis G.. math/0503445. 1073758.

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