Brendan Keith
Scholar

Brendan Keith

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Morton E. Gurtin Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
Computational ScienceFinite Element AnalysisOptimal Design
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
496
 
H-index
14
 
i10-index
18
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
57
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Selected as one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” early career researchers of 2023; received multiple research grants, including NNSA PSAAP IV Focused Investigatory Center (2025-2030), A.P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics (2025-2026), DOE SC Early Career Research Program (2023-2028), and NSF Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (2024-2027).
Research Experience
  • Before joining Brown, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; also held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics.
Education
  • Completed his Ph.D. at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, supervised by Leszek Demkowicz; held a postdoctoral position at the Chair of Numerical Analysis at the Technical University of Munich, supervised by Barbara Wohlmuth.
Background
  • Research interests include computational science, numerical analysis, optimization, and scientific machine learning. Currently, he is the Morton E. Gurtin Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, focusing on numerical methods for PDEs, scientific machine learning, and PDE-constrained optimization.
Miscellany
  • An active MFEM developer; summaries of early finite element work (2015-2020) can be found on his website.