Laurent Demanet
Principal Investigator
Laurent Demanet is Professor of Applied Mathematics, in the Department of Mathematics at MIT. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Since 2025, he is co-director of MIT's Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE). From 2018 to 2025, he was director of MIT's Earth Resources Laboratory.
Previously, he was Szego assistant professor (a postdoctoral position) in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2006 under Emmanuel Candes, in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech. He completed his undergraduate studies in mathematical engineering and theoretical physics at Universite de Louvain, Belgium.
He is the recipient of a Sloan research fellowship, a CAREER award from NSF, and a Young Investigator award from AFOSR. His research interests include scientific AI, scientific computing, inverse problems, and wave propagation. His group studies the mathematical and numerical challenges of inverse wave scattering, among others.
Contact Information
Email: ldemanet@mit.edu
Telephone: 617-324-2614
Office: 2-247
Postal Address:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 2, Room 247
Cambridge, MA 02139