Professor, Co-Director of MIT CCSE
Mathematics, EAPS
Education: PhD, Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Inst. of Tech., 2006
Bio: Laurent Demanet, a faculty-member EAPS and Mathematics, served as Director of ERL from 2018-2025, and is now co-director of MIT Center for Computational Science and and Engineering. After completing his undergraduate studies in mathematical engineering and theoretical physics at Universite de Louvain, Belgium, he went on in 2006 to earn a PhD in applied and computational mathematics at Caltech under Emmanuel Candes—for which he was awarded Caltech’s William P. Carey Prize for best dissertation in the mathematical sciences. Laurent held the Szegö Assistant Professorship at Stanford University from 2006-09 before coming to MIT. His work has garnered recognition including, in 2011, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the Air Force Young Investigator Award, and a 2012 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. He also held the Class of 1954 Career Development Professorship at MIT from 2013-16..