Harbir Antil
Recent Research Interests
- optimization algorithms for problems
governed by nonlinear, large-scale (infinite dimensional)
physical models given by partial
differential equations (PDEs);
- free boundary problems;
- calculus of variations;
- inverse problems;
- numerical analysis;
- scientific computing and software development;
- dimensional reduction;
- deep learning.
Sponsored Research
Selected research grants, see Curriculum Vitae (
.PDF) for
more details.
Current
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National Science Foundation (NSF) DMS - 2110263 (together with Pablo Stinga)
Nonlocal School on Fractional Equations.
June 2022-May 2023.
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) - FA9550-22-1-0248.
Compression and Randomization for Extreme-Scale Training & Optimization (CREST Opt).
May 2022-April 2025.
- DARPA (together with Tyrus Berry)
Geometries Of Learning (GoL).
April 2022-August 2023.
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) (together with Rainald Loehner)
Numerically Inspired Deep Neural Nets for Chemically Reacting Flows (NINNs).
April 2022-October 2022.
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National Science Foundation (NSF) DMS - 2110263
Algorithms and Numerics for Optimization Problems with PDEs.
August 2021-July 2024.
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) - FA9550-21-1-0181.
Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).
Optimization, Control, Networks and Learning from Data.
May 2021-October 2022.
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) (together with Rainald Loehner).
Neural-Net/Deep Learning Based Chemical Reaction Package.
April 2020 - September 2022.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) DMS - 1913004
Collaborative Research: Multilevel Methods for Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations and Optimization-Based Domain Decomposition.
July 2019-June 2022.
Recently Ended
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National Science Foundation (NSF) DMS - 1907412
East Coast Optimization Meeting (ECOM).
March 2019-August 2022.
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) - FA9550-19-1-0036.
Structure Exploiting Trust Regions for Bilevel and Risk-Averse Optimization.
January 2019-December 2021.
- Department of Navy, Naval PostGraduate School - N00244-20-1-0005.
Constrained Optimization and Machine Learning.
February 2020 - February 2022.
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National Science Foundation (NSF) DMS - 1818772
Partial Differential Equation Constrained Optimization: Algorithms, Numerics, and Applications.
August 2018-July 2021.
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Algorithms for Image and Shape Analysis in 3d.
August - December 2020.
- Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories
Fractional differential operators for features detection in the subsurface.
January-May 2019.
- Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories
Fractional operators in Geophysics.
January-May 2018
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National Science Foundation (NSF) DMS - 1521590
Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equation Constrained Optimization Problems.
July 2015-May 2019.
Outcomes
- See Publications for a
complete list of latest work
- Software written link
- Mentoring of students and postdocs link