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Research Interests

Laura is an applied mathematician in the Computation, Computers, Information, and Mathematics Center at Sandia National Laboratories. She is involved with the DAKOTA software project, and currently works in computational statistics.  Laura's research interests include uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, optimization under uncertainty, and model calibration.  Current research projects involve uncertainty quantification and calibration for engineering design problems. Laura has been investigating Bayesian methods to calibrate model parameters in a framework that explicitly accounts for model uncertainty as well as experimental uncertainty.  She has also been working on epistemic uncertainty approaches, primarily Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to propagate epistemic uncertainty in computational models.

Laura spent many years working in applied reliability analysis. She developed an optimization algorithm for reliability improvement that was incorporated in Sandia's Reliability Modeling and Analysis Program, WinR. She analyzed a variety of diagnostic and experimental systems. Laura was PI for a project involving vulnerability analysis of computer networks by generating attack graphs. She led a research effort developing prognostic algorithms for health monitoring and predictive maintenance applications, with a specific focus on the F-16 Accessory Drive Gearbox.

Publications

Some of Laura’s publications may be found at the CCIM Publications page, CCIM Publications and Presentations, or the DAKOTA publications page, Recent and Upcoming Publications

 

Education

Laura received her B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Yale University in 1987, her M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford in 1989, and her Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. She is currently a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification Department at Sandia National Laboratories.

Contact Information

Voice: (505) 844-8093
Facsimile: (505) 284-2518
lpswile@sandia.gov

Mailing Address:
PO Box 5800, MS 1318
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1318 USA

FedEx Address:
MS 1318
Sandia National Laboratories
1515 Eubank Blvd. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87123 USA

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