About me

I am an associate professor of Mathematics at UMass Dartmouth. I am the co-director of our Engineering & Applied Science PhD program and was previously the co-director of our data science program (2017-2024). Previously, I was a research associate at Cornell University working in Saul Teukolsky’s numerical relativity group and a Joint Space-Science Institute postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland working with Manuel Tiglio. In 2011 I completed my PhD under the supervision of Jan Hesthaven at Brown University.

My research interests include Bayesian inference, surrogate and reduced order modeling, gravitational-wave data science, scientific and high performance computing, object and task-based parallel programing, scalable and parallel algorithms, discontinuous Galerkin methods, computational general relativity and fluid dynamics, and near-field to far-field methods.

The applications I have been most interested in are motivated primarily by general relativity, gravitational waves, and large datasets.

Our research group is a member of the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes collaboration (SXS), the Center for Scientific Computing and Data science Research (CSCDR), the UMass-URI Gravity Research Consortium (U2GRC), and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) consortium. Our work has been supported through grants from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and ACCESS/XSEDE.

Contact information

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Department of Mathematics
email: sfield+at+umassd+dot+edu
phone: 508-999-8318