Professor
Duke University
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
omar.knio@duke.edu

Omar Knio is Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., Professor at Duke University. Prof. Knio combines expertise in the design of numerical methods and their application to problems in fluid dynamics and geophysical flows, as well as the design of uncertainty quantification methods, algorithms and software, and the application of these capabilities to uncertainty propagation, sensitivity analysis, Bayesian inference, model selection, and inverse problems. Dr. Knio currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, of ISRN Applied Mathematics, and of SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification. He has co-authored over 100 journal papers, two books, and is an inventor on 12 patents.