Session 1B: Non-Destructive Evaluation Uncertainty Quantification Using Optimization-Based...

Session 1B: Non-Destructive Evaluation Uncertainty Quantification Using Optimization-Based Confidence Intervals Michael (Mike) Stanley is a new postdoctoral researcher at NASA Langley Research Center contracted through Analytical Mechanics Associates (AMA). He obtained his PhD in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University under Mikael Kuusela with a thesis focused on statistical inference for ill-posed inverse problems in the physical sciences. During his PhD, he collaborated extensively with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on carbon flux uncertainty quantification and was awarded a Strategic University Research Partnership (SURP) to develop decision theoretic and optimization-based UQ. This work centered around the strategic desire to provide prior-free UQ alternatives to NASA and remains a key focus of his research. More broadly, he is interested in the intersection of statistics, probability, optimization, and computation.