Bianca Champenois

Hello! My name is Bianca. I am a PhD candidate at MIT in the joint Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science/Engineering program. I work with Professor Themistoklis Sapsis in the SAND Lab (Stochastic Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics) on data-driven fluid mechanics for ocean and atmospheric modeling. I am curious about all things related to machine learning, reduced-order modeling, uncertainty quantification, Bayesian inference, fluid dynamics, numerical methods, and extreme events. In my free time, I like to fix bikes and make comics. Here is my resume.

I will be running the NYC marathon in November for the Women's Prison Association. Check out my fundraising page if you want to support me :)

News

[July '24] I was featured on Radio Canada to discuss the future of weather and climate modeling.

[May '24] The club I founded, The Bike Lab, made it into MIT News.

[Jan. '24] My first first-author paper was published in Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena.

[July '23] I attended the MIT Portugal Marine Robotics Summer School.

[Apr. '23] My research was featured in Spectrum magazine.

Awards

[May '24] My poster won 2nd place at the De Florez Competition.

[Feb. '24] My poster won 2nd place at the SIAM UQ Power of Diversity workshop.

[May '23] I was awarded the Meredith Kamm Memorial Award (Excellence in a Woman Graduate Student) and the Clement F. Burnap Award (Outstanding Master of Science in the Marine Field).

[May '23] My poster won 3rd place at the De Florez Competition.

[Apr. '20] I was awarded the NSF GRFP.

Conferences

[July '24] ENOC at TU Delft

[June '24] ISOPE in Rhodes, Greece.

[Feb. '24] SIAM UQ in Trieste, Italy.

[Dec. '23] AGU in San Francisco, CA.

[Dec. '21] AGU in New Orleans, LA.

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