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Professor
Themistoklis Sapsis
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Interests
- Quantification and prediction of extremes events in complex systems
- Reduced order modeling of chaotic and turbulent systems
- Targeted energy transfers in mechanical systems
Faculty Details
Education
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2005
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Diploma -
2011
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)
Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Extreme events
- Uncertainty quantification and prediction
- Turbulent systems
- Nonlinear water waves
- Random vibrations
- Energy harvesting
Online Data
Honors + Awards
- 2021, Bodossaki Award on Basic Sciences: Mathematics
- 2020, Verisk AI Faculty Research Award
- 2020, MathWorks Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship, MIT
- 2017, Doherty Associate Professor Chair in Ocean Utilization, MIT
- 2016, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award
- 2015, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
- 2015, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Ocean Sciences
- 2015, Army Research Office Young Investigator Award
- 2015, Office of Naval Research - Summer Faculty Research Program Fellow
- 2013, Recipient of the first American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Chair, MIT
Memberships
- American Physical Society
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
- International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers
Professional Service
- 2017-present, Editorial Board, Spinger Nature Nonlinear Dynamics
- 2017-present, Editorial Board, SIAM/ASA Journal of Uncertainty Quantification
- 2014-present, Editorial Board, Journal of Ocean and Wind Energy
Teaching
- 2.121/2.122 Stochastic Systems
- 2.003 Dynamics and Control
- 2.700/2.701 Principles of Naval Architecture
- 2.081/16.230 Plates and Shells: Static and Dynamic Analysis