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Other Positions

• Co-organizer of the semester program "Stochastic and Randomized Algorithms in Scientific Computing: Foundations and Applications" at ICERM, Brown University (Spring 2026)
  
• Member of Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group (ISTEG) , National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, (2022 - Present)
  
• Research Advisory Committee for College of Science (COS), George Mason Univesrity (2023 - Present)
  
• Guest Editor on "Reduced Order Modeling in Analysis and Design" for Finite Elements in Analysis and Design (January-October 2023) link
  
• President of SIAM Washington Baltimore Section (Feb 2023 - present)
  
• Vice President of SIAM Washington Baltimore Section (Feb 2022 - Feb 2023)
  
• Associate Editor of Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA) (since May 2023) link
  
• Associate Editor of SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing (SISC) (since January 2022) link
  
• Associate Editor of SIAM Reviews (SIREV) (since January 2021) link
  
• Gene Golub SIAM Summer School Committee (since January 2021)
• co-Founder and co-Editor in Chief (EiC) of Advances in Discrete and Continuous Models (July 2021 - December 2024) link
• Associate Editor of Mathematical Control and Related Fields (MCRF) (since January 2019) link
  
• Affiliate Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware (2019-Current)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University (2016-17)

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Awards

• 2024 Dean's Research Scientist Award. College of Science, George Mason University.
• Research Fellow at ICERM, Brown University (Fall 2020).
• George Mason’s 2020 Career Connection Faculty Award for making a positive impact on students’ career goals, employment plans, and graduate school preparation.
• Nominated for 2020 and 2019 George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award.
• US Junior Oberwolfach Fellow, National Science Foundation travel grant. 2012 and 2017.
• Dean’s Early-Career Excellence Award, College of Science at George Mason University 2015. The Early-Career Excellence Award is presented to a tenure-track faculty member.

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Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)

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Selected Recent Funding

• NSF DMS - 2408877 (2024-2027)
• ONR - N00014-24-1-2147 (2024-2029)
• DURIP AFOSR - FA9550-24-1-0022 (2024-2025)
• NSF DMS - 2330895 (2023-2024)
• NSF DMS - 2213723 (2022-2023)
• AFOSR - FA9550-22-1-0248 (2022-2025)
• DARPA (2022-2023)
• NSF DMS - 2110263 (2021-2024)
• DURIP AFOSR FA9550-21-1-0181 (2021-2022)
• NSF DMS - 1913004 (2019-2022)
• NSF DMS - 1907412 (2019-2022)
• AFOSR - FA9550-19-1-0036 (2019-2021)
• Department of Navy, Naval PostGraduate School - N00244-20-1-0005 (2020-2021)
• NSF DMS - 1818772 (2018-2021)

For more details and research interests Research and Funding.

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Press

• H. Antil and R. Loehner’s article on "High-Fidelity Simulation of Pathogen Propagation, Transmission, and Mitigation” appeared in SIAM News, Volume 54, Number 6. July/August 2021. Link
• H. Antil and Rainald Loehner's project on "simulations of air flows to understand, minimize, and suppress the spread of pathogens such as COVID-19" has been chosen by NSF as Research Highlight. Link
• The New York Times has published our study on viral particles propagation in Subway. See also our related publication Detailed Simulation of Viral Propagation In The Built Environment . Computational Mechanics (2020). Link
• Review of our book Frontiers in PDE Constrained Optimization . SIAM Review. Volume 61, Issue 4, pp. 903. Year, 2019. Link
• LIGO and Gravitational Waves (GWs). Our work on Reduced Order Quadrature is playing a crucial role at Advanced LIGO in detecting GWs . The lead LIGO scientists on GWs won 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics. link .
• PDE Constrained Optimization. Frontiers in PDE Constrained Optimization (Page 11). link