Dr. Travis Thompson

Research Interests

Mathematical biology, Mathematical modeling, Numerical analysis, Scientific computing, Applied machine learning

Biography

Dr. Travis Thompson was a strategic hire at the rank of assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech effective Fall 2022. Prior to this, he received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Texas A&M University for work in numerical analysis and finite element methods with application to problems in computational fluid dynamics. Following his doctoral work, Dr. Thompson held postdoctoral fellowship positions in applied mathematics at Rice University, Simula Research Laboratory and Oxford University where he focused on numerical methods and mathematical modeling of neuropathology and the brain. His research focuses on the mathematical modeling of complex biological systems and the development, analysis and application of the numerical methods and data-driven scientific computing approaches enabling their study.