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Rima Alaifari
I am a Full Professor (W3) at the Department of Mathematics at RWTH Aachen, where I hold the chair for Analysis and its Applications. I mainly work in the fields of applied analysis, inverse problems and scientific machine learning. My research interests include stability analysis and regularization of inverse problems, applied harmonic analysis, phase retrieval and stability aspects of machine learning, including operator learning.
News
2026We have built a new research group at RWTH Aachen! Welcome to Steffen Carstensen, Dr. Piero Deidda, Pasquale Nettis and Justus Wiegersma!
Jan 2024Congratulations to Tandri Gauksson for successfully defending his PhD thesis in January 2024!
2023Both of our NeurIPS 2023 submissions have been accepted! Check out our ReNO paper and our CNO paper!
2023My talk on Representation equivalent Neural Operators given at the Mathematical and Scientific Machine Learning at ICERM in June 2023 is now online.
2023Dr. Francesca Bartolucci, former postdoctoral researcher in my group, is now tenure-track assistant professor at TU Delft! Congratulations, Francesca!
2022My talk at the Women in Data Science Zürich Conference is now online.
2022I will be giving a plenary talk at the 8th International Conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis in September 2022.
Mar 2022Congratulations to Matthias Wellershoff for successfully defending his PhD thesis in March 2022!
2022I am organising a mini-symposium on “Advances in phase retrieval” at Curves and Surfaces 2022.
Jan 2021Dr. Jesse Railo, a postdoctoral researcher in my group, has won the Finnish Inverse Prize for his dissertation. Congratulations!
Sep 2020My talk in the One World Mathematics of INformation, Data, and Signals (1W-MINDS) Seminar is now available here.
Student thesis projects available, especially for CSE students on MSc level. Send me an email if you are interested!
Oct 2019My SNF funded project on “Mathematical analysis of the phase retrieval problem” has launched in October 2019.
Short CV
Since 08/2025Full Professor and Head of Chair of Analysis and its Applications at RWTH Aachen
10/2016-07/2025Assistant Professor for Applied Mathematics at ETH Zürich
01/2016-09/2016ETH Postdoctoral Fellow (cofunded through FP7 Marie Curie Actions)
2014-2016D-MATH Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zürich
2012–2014Ph.D. fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
2010–2014Ph.D. in Mathematics under the supervision of Prof. Ingrid Daubechies and Prof. Michel Defrise, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ph.D. thesis on “Analysis of the truncated Hilbert transform arising in limited data computerized tomography”
2005–2010Bachelor and Master of Science in Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz
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