Dr. Panagiota Birmpa

I am an Assistant professor in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University. Before that, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst (2018-2022).

My research interests include: Generative modeling, Scientific Machine learning, Uncertainty Quantification, Probabilistic Graphical models, Interacting Particle Systems, Optimal transport Theory and Partial Differential Equations.

Education

PhD in Mathematics (Topic: Quantification of Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Fluctuations in Interacting Particle Systems, supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis), 2018

University of Sussex, UK

MSc in Pure Mathematics, 2014

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece

BSc+MSc (integrated master) in Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences (5 Year-degree), 2011

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece

News

Awarded LMS Scheme 9 Grant (Celebrating New Appointments grant), 2024.
Awarded Maxwell Institute Event Funding (in collaboration with P. Dobson, M. Majka, F. Tudisco), 2024.
Talk on "Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs" in the SIAM Uncertainty Quantification 2024, Trieste, Italy, 27 Feb.-1 Mar., 2024.
Organizer of the mini-symposium "Optimal Transport for Uncertainty Quantification" in the SIAM Uncertainty Quantification 2024, Trieste, Italy, 27 Feb.-1 Mar., 2024 (together with B. Zhang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst).

Upcoming Events

Talk on "Proximal optimal transport divergences and their connections with neural operators." in the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS24), Atlanta, Georgia, US, October 21-25, 2024.
Organizer of the two-day event "Recent advancements in uncertainty quantification for scientific machine learning, artificial intelligence and sampling algorithms", Edinburgh, UK, 3-4 Sept. 2024 (together with P. Dobson, M. Majka, F. Tudisco) .