Computational
Science and
Engineering

Research Group

Curriculum Vitae

Linda R. Petzold
Professor

Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070

Office: Room 3217 Phelps Hall
Phone: (805) 893-5362
Fax: (805) 893-5435
E-mail: petzold@engineering.ucsb.edu

Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1978

Computational Science and Engineering: Numerical ODEs, DAEs and PDEs, parameter estimation and optimal control for PDEs, scientific computing, problem solving environments.

Professor Petzold’s research group concentrates on computational science and engineering, and in particular simulation, sensitivity analysis, design optimization, optimal control and problem solving environments for systems described by differential-algebraic equations and partial differential equations. Current projects focus on several important engineering applications:

• development of a computational infrastructure for microfluidic systems with applications to biotechnology
  
  
• development and analysis of multiscale simulation methods for biochemical networks

The computational issues addressed range from development and analysis of numerical methods for problems at scales from stochastic to deterministic, to analysis of errors due to the use of reduced order models, to the design of software environments to make scientific computation more easily accessible. more easily accessible.