Matt West
Matt West is Associate Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his PhD in control and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology; his research interests include asynchronous and structure-preserving integrators, stochastic simulation and uncertainty quantification, and multi-scale and multi-physics simulations. Through AE3 and an NSF WIDER grant, Matt has developed and disseminated a number of innovations for teaching at scale, engaged faculty teams in renovating courses, and led efforts to implement project-based learning in the curriculum. As an AE3 Education Innovation Fellow he has provided on-the-ground help for faculty communities of practice invested in educational change.
