Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
matti [at] ucsd [dot] edu
My research interests are, broadly: interdisciplinary mathematical/stochastic modeling, data assimilation, Monte Carlo sampling, reduced
order modeling. Specifically: numerical methods for data assimilation and inverse problems – importance/implicit sampling, Markov chain Monte
Carlo, variational methods, Kalman filters.
I create new mathematics and computational tools and work towards their successful application across the Earth sciences. A main theme of my work is how sampling methods can function (or not) in high-dimensional spaces.
Please download my publications here.
Please download my CV here.
Dan Blatter. Check out Dan's work on trans-dimensional MCMC.
Kyle Gwirtz, Project: geomagnetic data assimilation.
Travis Harty, Applied Mathematics. Projects: intra-hour forecasting of global horizontal irradiance for solar power and multi-scale localization.
Jessica Pillow, Applied Mathematics. Co-advised with Matt Kupinski. Project: Inverse problems in X-ray radiography.
Travis Davis, Computer Science.
Spencer Lunderman, Mathematics, U of Arizona. Dissertation: Feature-based parameter estimation of the nonlinear cloud and rain equation and global Bayesian optimization in data assimilation. Position after graduation: finance (declined JPL postdoc).
Jesse Adams, Applied Mathematics, U of Arizona. Co-advised with Aaron Luttman (NNSS). Dissertation: Scalable block Gibbs sampling for image deblurring in X-ray radiography. Position after graduation: Postdoc at NNSS.
Andrew Leach, Applied Mathematics, U of Arizona. Co-advised with Kevin Lin. Dissertation: Monte Carlo methods for stochastic differential equations and their applications. Position after graduation: Google, Machine Learning Engineer.
Antonio Lorenzo, Optical sciences, U of Arizona. Co-advised with Alex Cronin. Dissertation: Short-term irradiance forecasting using an irradiance sensor network, satellite imagery, and data assimilation. Position after graduation: Research Scientist at the University of Arizona.
Savannah Rae Armstrong, Engineering and Mathematics double major.
Shivansh Singh Chauhan, Computer Science.
Tene Carter (undergraduate), Computer Science and Mathematics double major.
Rafael Orozco (undergraduate), Computer Science, Mathematics minor.
Snapshots of modern mathematics from Oberwolfach article about merging models and data (2018)
SIAM News story about simplified geomagnetic models (2020)
UA News story about geomagnetic reversals (2017)
UA News story about Sloan Research Fellowship (2016)
NNSS article about Jesse Adams' dissertation work
Public lecture about data assimilation (2017, Everything is Math lecture series)
Office: Revelle 2102
Email: matti [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Mail: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego,9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0225, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225