Youssef Marzouk

Youssef M. Marzouk is an American computational scientist who is the Breene M. Kerr Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an associate dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. His research focuses on uncertainty quantification, Bayesian computation, inverse problems, data assimilation, and machine learning for complex physical systems.

Early life and education Marzouk was born and raised in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. His parents emigrated from Egypt to the United States in the 1970s, and the family settled in St. Louis. He earned his S.B. in 1997, S.M. in 1999, and Ph.D. in 2004 from MIT.

Career and research After completing his doctorate, Marzouk worked at Sandia National Laboratories as a Truman Fellow and member of the technical staff before joining the MIT faculty in 2009.

In 2018, Marzouk became co-director of MIT's Center for Computational Science and Engineering.