Karen Willcox

Karen E. Willcox is Director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Associate Vice President for Research, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She is at the forefront of new computational methods to advance engineering design and uncertainty quantification. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and received the 2024 Theodore von Karman Prize.