Assistant Professor of Computational Mathematics
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
office: Wean Hall 8206
tel: 412-268-3420
e-mail: schaeffer cmu edu
SHORT BIO
Hayden Schaeffer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at CMU. He received an NSF CAREER Award and an AFOSR Young Investigator Award.
Previously, he was an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow, a von Karmen Instructor at Caltech, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine, and a Collegium of University Teaching Fellow at UCLA. His education includes a Ph.D. and Masters in mathematics from UCLA and a B.A. from Cornell University.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Data Sciences
Integrating machine learning, data sciences, and differential equations for new methods and solvers.
Sparse Models
Leveraging sparsity and optimization for learning and exploiting data and structure.
Math Modeling
Constructing models for problems in mathematical, physical, and information sciences.
Imaging Sciences
Utilizing and creating variational models for problems in imaging and information sciences.
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