Distinguished Alumnus
- Traian Iliescu
Traian Iliescu
Traian is an assistant professor of mathematics at Virginia Tech. He received his PhD in 2000 under the direction of Professor Bill Layton. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Wilkinson Fellow at the Argonne National Laboratory.
As a graduate student in 1999, Traian was a winner of the SIAM Paper Prize. His research interests include applied and computational mathematics, computational fluid dynamics (large eddy simulation of turbulent flows, geophysical flows), and numerical analysis (subgrid-scale modeling, mesh adaptation).