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Pierre Lermusiaux

Nam Pyo Suh Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Areas of expertise

  • - Ocean Data Assimilation
  • - Numerical Ocean Modeling
  • - Uncertainty Quantification and Inference Schemes
  • - Applications to Physical and Interdisciplinary Ocean Dynamics and Engineering

Major works

  • A. Gupta and P.F.J. Lermusiaux. Neural closure models for dynamical systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. (2021) 477 : 2252, 20201004, doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.1004

  • M. Serra, P. Sathe, I. Rypina, A. Kirincich, S.D. Ross, P.F.J. Lermusiaux, A. Allen, T. Peacock, and G. Haller. Search and rescue at sea aided by hidden flow structures. Nature Communications. (2020) 11 :1, 2525, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16281-x

  • D.N. Subramani and P.F.J. Lermusiaux. Energy-optimal path planning by stochastic dynamically orthogonal level-set optimization. Ocean Modelling. (2016) 100 , 57-77, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2016.01.006

  • M.P. Ueckermann, P.F.J. Lermusiaux and T.P. Sapsis. Numerical Schemes for Dynamically Orthogonal Equations of Stochastic Fluid and Ocean Flows. Journal of Computational Physics. (2013) 233 , 272-294, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2012.08.041

  • T.P. Sapsis and P.F.J. Lermusiaux. Dynamically orthogonal field equations for continuous stochastic dynamical systems. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. (2009) 238 :23-24, 2347-2360, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2009.09.017

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About me

Dr. Lermusiaux is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Science and Engineering at MIT. He received his B. / M. Eng. degree from the University of Liege (1992), his M. Sc. from Harvard University (1993), and his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1997). He received a Fulbright Foundation Fellowship (1992), the Wallace Prize at Harvard (1993), the Ogilvie Young Investigator Lecture in Ocean Eng. at MIT (1998), and the MIT Doherty Chair in Ocean Utilization (2009-2011). In 2010, the School of Eng. at MIT awarded him with the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has made outstanding contributions in data assimilation, as well as in ocean modeling and uncertainty predictions. His research thrusts include understanding and modeling complex physical and interdisciplinary oceanic dynamics and processes. With his group, he creates, develops and utilizes new mathematical models and computational methods for ocean predictions and dynamical diagnostics, for optimization and control of autonomous ocean systems, for uncertainty quantification and prediction, and for data assimilation and data-model comparisons. He has participated in many national and international sea exercises. He has served on numerous committees and organized large meetings and workshops. He is associate editor in three journals and has more than hundred twenty refereed publications.