Taras Lakoba

Taras Lakoba
Occupation	Academic

Taras Lakoba is an applied mathematician at the University of Vermont. His work spans numerical analysis, nonlinear optics, and mathematical physics, including the stability of numerical schemes and optical signal regeneration.

Research

According to Semantic Scholar, Lakoba has published 117 papers that have collectively received 2,378 citations, with an h-index of 23. His research has addressed numerical treatment of boundary conditions in simulations of distributed-feedback lasers, amplitude regeneration and phase noise suppression using nonlinear optical loop mirrors, and the stability of numerical schemes for partial differential equations. He has also contributed to work on pulsar radio emission mechanisms, including the origin of relativistic Langmuir solitons in pulsar plasma, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Other work has examined atomically thin superfluid and solid phases of atoms on strained graphene, and spinodal de-wetting of light liquids on graphene, published in Physical Review B and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, respectively.

According to National Science Foundation records, Lakoba has received four collaborative research awards totaling $342,845. These include a 2020 award of $8,400 for a project titled "Expanding the Reach of Industrial Career Training for Graduate Students," a 2012 award of $181,836 for "Instability analysis of the split-step method on spatially-varying backgrounds, with applications to optical telecommunications and Bose-Einstein condensation," a 2009 award of $99,708 for "Multichannel All-Optical Signal-Processing Devices Based on a Group-Delay-Managed Nonlinear Medium," and a 2005 award of $52,901 for "Mathematical and Engineering Study of Multi-Channel All-Optical Regenerator."

Selected publications

• "Numerical Treatment of Boundary Conditions to Reduce High-Frequency Artifacts in Simulations of Distributed-Feedback Lasers" (2022), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
• "Amplitude regeneration and phase noise suppression of an 8-PSK signal by an attenuation-imbalanced NOLM" (2022), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
• "Towards Determining Amyloid Fibril Structures Using Experimental Constraints from Raman Spectroscopy" (2022)
• "Pulsar radio emission mechanism II. On the origin of relativistic Langmuir solitons in pulsar plasma" (2022), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• "Recent Progress in Studies of Stability of Numerical Schemes" (2022), Symmetry
• "Atomically thin superfluid and solid phases for atoms on strained graphene" (2022), Physical Review B
• "Dynamics of Plane Waves in the Fractional Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Long-Range Dispersion" (2021), Symmetry
• "Recent Progress on Optical Regeneration of Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Data" (2021), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
• "Higher-order explicit schemes based on the method of characteristics for hyperbolic equations with crossing straight-line characteristics" (2021), Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
• "Spinodal de-wetting of light liquids on graphene" (2021), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

External links

• Semantic Scholar author profile