Dr. Mengwu Guo (郭孟武) is a Senior Lecturer in Scientific Computing at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Lund University. Mengwu has broad interests in computational science, engineering, and mathematics, and his recent research activities have been focused on data-driven predictive modeling, model order reduction, uncertainty quantification, and verification & validation in the general context of scientific/physics-aware machine learning. With an interdisciplinary background between engineering sciences and computational mathematics, Mengwu is dedicated to the development of novel numerical methods towards real-world scientific and engineering applications.
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Education
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with top honors | Tsinghua University | August 2013 – July 2017 | Supervised by Prof. Hongzhi Zhong
- B.Eng. in Civil Engineering with top honors | Tsinghua University | August 2009 – July 2013 | Grade average: 93.11/100, ranking the 1st out of 104
Professional Experience
- Senior Lecturer | Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Lund University | Since April 2024
- Assistant Professor | Mathematics of Imaging & AI group, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente | February 2021 – March 2024
- Visiting Researcher | Laboratory for Modeling and Scientific Computing (MOX), Politecnico di Milano | September 2021 – October 2021
- Postdoctoral Fellow | Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin | February 2020 – January 2021 | Mentored by Prof. Karen E. Willcox
- Postdoctoral Researcher | Institute of Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | September 2017 – January 2020 | Mentored by Prof. Jan S. Hesthaven
- Visiting PhD Student | Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa | October 2015 – February 2016 | Mentored by Prof. Weimin Han
Awards and Distinctions
- Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) in Numerical Analysis (level 2), 2023– 2033
- Research Award of Young Investigator Training Program 2019 funded by the Association of Foundations and Banks Saving SpA (Italy), 2021
- Tsinghua Zijing Scholar, 2017
- Top Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation at Tsinghua University (among the best evaluated 29 out of 1385), 2017
- Outstanding Doctoral Graduate in Beijing City (top 5%), 2017
- China National Petroleum Corporation Scholarship, 2016
- Academic Rising Star Award at Tsinghua University's Department of Civil Engineering, 2016
- Chinese National Scholarship for Doctoral Candidate, 2015
- Outstanding Graduate at Tsinghua University (top 1%), 2013
- Outstanding Graduate of Beijing City (top 5%), 2013
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis at Tsinghua University, 2013
- Bao Steel Scholarship, 2012
- Chinese National Scholarship for Undergraduate Student, 2010
- First Prize in Hebei Province in the Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), 2008