Dr. Malena Espanol's research interests are in the areas of Applied and Computational Mathematics. She is interested in the development, analysis, and application of mathematical models and numerical methods for solving problems arising in science and engineering. Her work has been focused on problems related to materials science, image processing, and medical diagnostics. More specifically, her research has been at the intersection of many different mathematical areas including numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, calculus of variations, and machine learning.