Personnel
Dr. Vladimir Protopopescu
Deputy Director
Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research
Group Leader of Complex Nonlinear Systems Group
ORNL/CSMD
One Bethel Valley Road, PO Box 2008
Bldg. 6010, MS-6364
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
865-574-4722
protopopesva@ornl.gov
Vladimir Protopopescu received a Ph.D. degree in mathematical physics from the Institute for Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania, in 1976. From 1968 till 1984, he worked successively at the Institute for Atomic Physics in Bucharest, Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Yale University, and Boston University.
In 1985, Dr. Protopopescu joined the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he presently is a senior member of the research staff.
His research interests include mathematical modeling, analysis and optimal control of partial differential equations, dynamical systems, inverse problems, global optimization, and modern application of control theory to quantum systems. He has published over 150 journal and conference papers in various areas of applied mathematics and mathematical physics, and co-authored a monograph on boundary value problems in kinetic theory, which - fifteen years after its publication - continues to be the absolute reference for rigorous treatment of transport problems.
Dr. Protopopescu is a Member of AMS, SIAM, APS, and IAMP. He serves as an Associate Editor for "Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences", "Transport Theory and Statistical Physics", and the Birkhäuser series on "Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering, and Technology". In 1998 he got an R&D 100 Award on his work on global optimization. He holds a patent on "Fast and Secure Encryption-Decryption Method Based on Chaotic Dynamics," U.S. Patent No.: 5,479,513 (December 26, 1995).
