Susan Minkoff

Bio: Sue Minkoff is the Chair of Applied Mathematics at Brookhaven National Laboratory. From 2012-2024, she was a professor of Mathematical Sciences and an affiliated professor in the departments of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences and Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Texas at Dallas. From 2000-2012, she served on the faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Minkoff’s research interests include inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, AI/ML, digital twins modeling, Earth science, and photonics. She received her doctorate in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University in 1995. From 1995-1997, she was a National Science Foundation-Industrial postdoc joint between the University of Texas at Austin and British Petroleum, and, from 1997-2000, she held the von Neumann Fellowship in the Mathematics Department at Sandia National Laboratories (New Mexico). In 2000, Minkoff was promoted to senior member of the technical staff in Sandia’s Geophysics Dept.