Hector D. Ceniceros 
Professor of Mathematics

Partner of the  Complex Fluids Design Consortium
Faculty Advisor of the UCSB SACNAS Chapter
Faculty Advisor of the UCSB SIAM Chapter

Research Interests:

  • Numerical Analysis.
  • Soft materials and complex fluids.
  • Free boundary problems.
  • Data Science.

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Editorial Activities: Honors:

  • Plenary Speaker, Colombian Congress of Applied and Industrial Mathematics. Medellin, August, 2022.
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
  • Science Without Borders Special Research Fellow, 2014-2016, Brazil.
  • Diego Bricio plenary speaker, XXIV National School of Optimization and Numerical Analysis (ENOAN), CIMAT, Guanajuato, 2014.
  • Plenary speaker, American Mathematical Society, Western Section, Spring 2011 Meeting, Las Vegas NV, 2011.
  • Keynote speaker, Davis SIAM Research Conference, Davis CA, 2010.
  • Plenary speaker, XX National School of Optimization and Numerical Analysis (ENOAN), Morelia, 2010.
  • Faculty Career Development Award. University of California Santa Barbara, 2003.
  • The Mochizuki Teaching Award, University of California Santa Barbara, 2002.