Matthew West

Contact

362E Mechanical Engineering Building
1206 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Phone: +1-217-333-2836
Fax: +1-217-333-6534
mwest@illinois.edu
http://lagrange.mechse.illinois.edu/mwest/

Employment

August 2022
to present
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
August 2012
to August 2022
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
January 2008
to August 2012
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
April 2004
to January 2008
Stanford University
Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
January 2003
to March 2004
University of California, Davis
Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Education

1997 to 2002 California Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems (conferred 2004)
Advisor: J. E. Marsden
Thesis title: Variational integrators
1992 to 1996 University of Western Australia
B.Sc. (first class honours) in Pure and Applied Mathematics