Mark Asch

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About Mark Asch

Mark Asch holds a B.S. degree in agronomy, an M.S. degree in applied physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1984) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics (1990) from the Courant Institute of New York University. After post-doctoral work at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton and INRIA, France, he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Paris XI. In 2001 he was nominated as professor of mathematics at the University of Toulon, and since 2003 at the University of Picardy where he was vice-chancellor for research between 2005 and 2008. After 2 years as scientific officer for HPC and Big Data at CNRS in Paris, and 3 years at the French Ministry of Research as scientific officer for mathematics, computing, data and e-infrastructures, he was on secondment at the French Research Agency (ANR). He spent 2 years on secondment in industry, working as scientific advisor to corporate research of Total SA. His research interests are in acoustics, wave propagation, random media, control theory and the application of machine learning and optimal control methods to inverse problems. He has published over 90 articles and conference proceedings in these domains. His book, “Data Assimilation: Methods, Algorithms and Applications”, was published in 2016 by SIAM, USA. His latest book,"A toolbox for Digital Twins: from model-based to data-driven", SIAM, appeared in Aug. He led an action theme in the Belmont Forum “Data Management and e-Infrastructure” initiative and was co-organizer of the international BDEC (Big Data and Extreme-Scale Computing) forum. Prof. Asch is a member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI). For additional information, please consult- my academic web-pages at http://masch.perso.math.cnrs.fr and my Google Scholar page - my list of research grants and industrial projects - my ORCID ID is: