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Owen Melia, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Mathematics

Website
meliao.github.io

Bio

Owen Melia joined the Flatiron Institute in September 2025 as a Flatiron Research Fellow in the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM). Owen researches direct PDE solvers with applications in scientific imaging and deep learning. Prior to joining the Institute, Owen received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Chicago in August 2025. He received a B.S. in mathematics and economics from the University of Chicago in 2019.

Publications

A Model-Guided Neural Network Method for the Inverse Scattering Problem

arxiv:2512.10123, 2025

Olivia Tsang, O. Melia, Vasileios Charisopoulos, Jeremy Hoskins, Jeremy Hoskins, and Rebecca Willett

jaxhps: An elliptic PDE solver built with machine learning in mind

Journal of Open Source Software, 2025

O. Melia, D. Fortunato, Jeremy Hoskins, and Rebecca Willett

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