Elizabeth Qian
Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech
Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech
I'm an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech in the Schools of Aerospace Engineering and Computational Science and Engineering. My research develops fast and accurate computational methods that enable engineers to leverage data for making predictions and decisions under uncertainty. My specialties are model reduction, data-driven modeling, scientific machine learning, and multi-fidelity methods. You can learn more on my research page.
Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, I held a von Kármán Instructorship at Caltech in the Department of Computing + Mathematical Sciences. I received my SB, SM, and PhD degrees from the MIT Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics. I also currently hold a visiting appointment as a Hans Fischer Fellow at the Technical University of Munich.
I am excited about mentoring and teaching the next generation of aerospace engineers and computational scientists, and I work to make my professional communities more equitable, diverse, and inclusive for generations to come. My service and teaching contributions have previously been recognized with departmental and division-wide DEI awards, as well as an institute-wide teaching award.
November 2026: I am serving on the scientific committee for MORe 2026 (Conference on Model Reduction and Surrogate Modeling), from November 2-6, in Milan, Italy.
December 2026: I am co-organizing FrontUQ 2026 "Frontiers in Uncertainty Quantification: Digital Twins and Model Reduction" at the Technical University of Munich, December 1-4, in Garching, Germany.
October 2026: Our paper on Sparse POD Mode Selection and Manifold Dimensionality Reduction with Neural Networks, led by GT PhD student Tomoki Koike, has been accepted for publication in the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. This work is a collaboration with the National Laboratory of the Rockies.
New preprint on Analytically Optimal Sample Allocations for Nested Multivariate Multifidelity Control Variate Estimators is available on arXiv. This work is led by GT PhD student Atticus Rex.
September 2026: Our paper on dimension and model reduction approaches for linear Bayesian inverse problems with rank-deficient prior covariances, led by former Fulbright visiting student Josie König, has been published in Computational Science and Engineering (open access at the link).