Sue Minkoff

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Computational Science
Bldg. 725
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

sminkoff@bnl.gov

Expertise | Education | Appointments | Publications | Awards

Expertise

Sue Minkoff is Chair of the Applied Mathematics Department within the Computing and Data Sciences Directorate at BNL. Prior to coming to BNL, she spent 25 years in academia (first at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and then at the University of Texas at Dallas). She is a computational and applied mathematician with expertise in a variety of areas including inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, AI/ML, digital twins modeling, as well as low-rank tensor denoising and completion. She has worked on application problems primarily related to geosciences and optics and photonics.

Education

• Ph.D. Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1995
• M.A. Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 1993
• B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1986

Professional Appointments

• Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chair of Applied Mathematics, Computing and Data Sciences Directorate, 2024-present
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 2025-present
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences,  University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 2024-present
• University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, and Affiliated Professor, Geosciences  and the Department of Science/Mathematics Education, 2012-2024
• Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) Faculty Research Fellow, Durham, NC, 2018
• Associate Director for industrial research consortium:  ``UT Dallas 3D + 4D Seismic Research Consortium'', UTD, 2017-2024
• Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD, 2012
• Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UMBC,  2006-2012
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UMBC, 2000-2006
• Oden Faculty Research Fellow, Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences and the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2007
• Senior Member of Technical Staff, Geophysical Technology Dept, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, 2000
• Von Neumann Fellow in Computational Sciences,  Applied Mathematics Dept., Sandia National Labs,  1997-2000
• National Science Foundation Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin & British Petroleum,  Austin and Houston, TX, 1995-1997

Selected Publications

• Symes WW, Chen H, Minkoff SE (2025) A numerical investigation of matched source waveform inversion applied to acoustic transmission data. Inverse Problems 41:065022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ade182
• Dolski T, Spiller ET, Minkoff SE (2024) Gaussian Process Emulation for High-Dimensional Coupled Systems. Technometrics 66:455–469. https://doi.org/10.1080/00401706.2024.2322651
• Harikumar R, Minkoff SE, Lou Y (2024) A low-rank tensor reconstruction and denoising method for enhancing CNN performance. 2024 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI) 69–72. https://doi.org/10.1109/ssiai59505.2024.10508687
• Popa J, Lou Y, Minkoff SE (2023) Low-Rank Tensor Data Reconstruction and Denoising via ADMM: Algorithm and Convergence Analysis. Journal of Scientific Computing 97:. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-023-02364-6
• Mozumder A, Safin A, Minkoff SE, Zweck J (2023) A Two-Way Coupled Model of Visco-Thermo-Acoustic Effects in Photoacoustic Trace Gas Sensors. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 83:1074–1097. https://doi.org/10.1137/21m1447659
• Symes WW, Chen H, Minkoff SE (2022) Solution of an acoustic transmission inverse problem by extended inversion. Inverse Problems 38:115003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ac8c8c
• Popa J, Minkoff SE, Lou Y (2022) Tensor-based reconstruction applied to regularized time-lapse data. Geophysical Journal International 231:638–649. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac211
• Popa J, Minkoff SE, Lou Y (2021) An improved seismic data completion algorithm using low-rank tensor optimization: Cost reduction and optimal data orientation. Geophysics 86:V219–V232. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2020-0539.1
• Safin A, Zweck J, Minkoff SE (2020) A one-way coupled model for the vibration of tuning fork-based trace gas sensors driven by a thermoacoustic wave. Applied Physics B 126:. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-020-7376-8
• Stuart GK, Minkoff SE, Pereira F (2019) A two-stage Markov chain Monte Carlo method for seismic inversion and uncertainty quantification. GEOPHYSICS 84:R1003–R1020. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2018-0893.1
• Safin A, Minkoff S, Zweck J (2018) A Preconditioned Finite Element Solution of the Coupled Pressure-Temperature Equations Used to Model Trace Gas Sensors. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 40:B1470–B1493. https://doi.org/10.1137/17m1145823
• Kaderli J, McChesney MD, Minkoff SE (2018) A self-adjoint velocity-stress full-waveform inversion approach to microseismic source estimation. GEOPHYSICS 83:R413–R427. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2017-0557.1

Awards & Recognition

• Secretary of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (2020-2023).
• Chair of the SIAM Geosciences Activity Group (2017-2018)
• Member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Council (2014-2017).
• Chair of the Membership Committee for SIAM (2009-2013)
• The American Mathematical Society representative to the 16th Annual Coalition for National Science Funding Exhibition & Reception on Capitol Hill (April 2010).
• Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics (2026-2029)
• Associate Editor for the journal Computational Geosciences (2020-2023).
• Member of the Editorial Board for the journal SIAM Undergraduate Research Online (SIURO) (2015-2018).
• Member of the Editorial Board for the SIAM Mathematics in Industry book series (2014—).
• Member of the Editorial Board for SIAM News (2013—).
• Member of Organizing Committee for the New York Scientific Data Summit,  NYC, September 11-12, 2025.
• Conference Co-Chair of the SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Houston, TX, March 11-14, 2019.
• Member of Organizing Committee for the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT,  March 14-18, 2015.
• Member of Organizing Committee for the SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences Long Beach, CA, March 21-24, 2011.
• Member of Organizing Committee for the SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences Leipzig, Germany, June 15-18, 2009.
• Member of Organizing Committee for the SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences Santa Fe, NM, March 19-22, 2007.
• Honorable Mention for Best Paper in the journal Geophysics (2004)
• Outstanding Reviewer Geophysics (1999)
• The Robert Lowrey Patten Service Award, Rice University (1996)
• The Graduate Student Association Service Award, Rice University (1993)  
• Phi Beta Kappa, Duke University (1985)