George Em Karniadakis obtained his diploma of engineering in Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture from the
National Technical University of Athens in 1982. Subsequently, he received his
Scientiæ Magister in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in 1987 from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the advice of Anthony T. Patera and Borivoje B. Mikic. He then joined the
Center for Turbulence Research at
Stanford University,
NASA Ames Laboratory, as a postdoctoral research associate under the mentorship of
Parviz Moin and
John Kim. In 1988, Karniadakis joined
Princeton University as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and as an associate faculty in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics. In 1993, he held a visiting professor appointment in the Aeronautics Department at the
California Institute of Technology, before joining the Division of Applied Mathematics at
Brown University as a tenured associate professor in 1994. He became a full professor of Applied Mathematics in 1996. Since 2000, he has been a visiting professor and senior lecturer of Ocean/Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He was entitled the Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics in 2014. He is the lead
principal investigator (PI) of an OSD/ARO/MURI on fractional PDEs, and the lead PI of an OSD/AFOSR MURI on Machine Learning for PDEs. He is the Director of the DOE center PhILMS on Physics-Informed Learning Machines and was previously the Director of the DOE Center of Mathematics for Mesoscale Modeling of Materials (CM4). ==Honors and awards==