Rate My Professor Boyce Griffith

Boyce E. Griffith is a Professor of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also holds appointments as Research Professor in the Department of Surgery, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences, and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Mathematics. He earned his PhD in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 2005, along with a BA in Computational and Applied Mathematics and Mathematics and a BS in Computer Science from Rice University in 2000. Griffith's academic career includes faculty positions at New York University School of Medicine from 2008 to 2014, following postdoctoral fellowships there from 2005 to 2008 as an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Courant Instructor. Since joining UNC Chapel Hill in 2014 as Assistant Professor of Mathematics, he has advanced to full Professor, with additional roles in the McAllister Heart Institute, Computational Medicine Program, Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, and Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

Griffith's research specializes in computational and applied mathematics for simulating cardiovascular physiology, focusing on fluid-structure interaction, extensions of the immersed boundary method, cardiac electrophysiology, electro-mechanical coupling, heart valves, atrial fibrillation, thrombosis, and cardiovascular medical devices. His group develops physiological models through collaborations with clinicians, engineers, and computational scientists. Key publications include 'Immersed methods for fluid-structure interaction' (Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2020, with N. A. Patankar), 'Simulating cardiac fluid dynamics in the human heart' (PNAS Nexus, 2024), 'Electrophysiology' (Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2013, with C. S. Peskin), and the book chapter 'Computer modeling and simulation of heart valve function and intervention' (Principles of Heart Valve Engineering, 2019). Griffith maintains the open-source IBAMR software for high-performance immersed boundary simulations. His contributions have earned the 2025 Langtangen Prize for advancing numerical simulation technology, NSF CAREER Award (2017), Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize for Outstanding Dissertation (2006), Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (2000–2004), and over 6,900 citations per Google Scholar.