Emma Hart

Program Year:

University:

Emory University

Field of Study:

Computational Mathematics

Advisor:

Julianne Chung

Degree(s):

B.A., Applied Mathematics, Colgate University, 2022

Personal URL:

https://math.emory.edu/~ehart5/

Practicum Experience(s)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2024)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

Xiaoye Sherry

Practicum Title:

Flow Matching for Probabalistic Forecasting of Time Series

Summary of Research

I work on inverse problems and uncertainty quantification, with applications in medical and geophysical imaging. Currently, under the mentorship of Julianne Chung and Matthias Chung at Emory, I am working with autoencoder networks that can supplement traditional inverse problem techniques (in UQ and regularization, for example). More broadly in my research, and throughout my PhD, I hope to learn more methodologies of numerical linear algebra and ways that they can be applied to solve problems in engineering and sustainability.

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Fellow Poster

: DOE CSGF 2026: Emma Hart — Fellow Poster (

2026

)

Fellow Poster

: Paired Autoencoders for Inference and Regularization (

2024

)

Publications

E. Hart, B. Peters, J. Chung, and M. Chung (2026). Latent Space Inference via Paired Autoencoders Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 68.4, p. 50

E. Hart, J. Chung, and M. Chung (2026). A paired autoencoder framework for inverse problems via Bayes risk minimization. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 48.2, p. C385-C414

S. H. Lim, Y. Wang, A. Yu, E. Hart, M. W. Mahoney, X. S. Li, and N. B. Erichson (2025). Elucidating the design choice of probability paths in flow matching for forecasting. Transactionson Machine Learning Research

M. Chung, E. Hart, J. Chung, B. Peters, and E. Haber (2024). Paired autoencoders for likelihood-free estimation in inverse problems. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 5.4, p. 045055

E. Buser, E. Hart, and B. Huenemann (2022). Comparison of atlas-based and neural-network-based semantic segmentation for dense MRI images. SIAM Undergraduate Research Online, 15

Awards

Women in Natural Sciences Fellowship, Emory University (2022-Present)
Piedmond Project Graduate Fellow in Sustainability, Emory University (2026)
SIAM Student Travel Award, National Science Foundation (2026)
SIAM Student Travel Award, National Science Foundation (2025)
Dean's Award for Academic Excellence with Distinction, Colgate University (2018-2022)
Graduate School Access Fund Recipient, Colgate University (2021)
Osborne Mathematics Prize, Colgate University (2021)
Sisson Mathematics Prize, Colgate University (2020)
Charles A. Dana Scholar, Colgate University (2020)
Liberal Arts Core Curriculum Prize, Colgate University (2019)