Wenyuan Liao

Dr. Wenyuan Liao

Positions

Professor

Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

PIMS Calgary Site Director

Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Contact information

Email

wliao@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

My U of C

PIMS

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SIAM

CAIMS

Canadian Mathematical Society

SEG

NA Digest

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-3946

Background

Educational Background

Ph.D. Mathematics, Mississippi State University, 2003

Research

Areas of Research

Inverse modeling and indudstrial applications (particularly, oil reservoir simulation), Seismic inversion and applications, High performance computing and scientific computation, Numerical methods for PDE, Computational methods for inverse problem, Mathematical modelling and the application of mathematics to industrial problems, Numerical methods and applications to geophysics, Deep Neural Networks Method for PDEs and Inverse Problems

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Energy Innovations for Today and Tomorrow (2013-2021)

Transdisciplinary Research

Energy Futures

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
MATH 277 Multivariable Calculus for Engineers and Scientists Winter 2026
MATH 661.05 Numerical Solution of Differential Equations Fall 2025

Awards

  • CAIMS-Fields Industrial Prize, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, Fields Institute. 2025

Publications

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