Vera Mikyoung Hur is an Associate Professor and the Philippe Tondeur Scholar in Mathematics. She is Associate Chair for Faculty. She is the Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a faculty affiliate of the Computational Science and Engineering program. She completed her PhD at Brown University in 2006, and was a CLE Moore Instructor at MIT in 2006-2009. She was a Visiting Professor at Brown University in 2016-2017. 

Professor Hur puts together rigorous analysis, numerical computation, and modeling to address issues in the mathematical aspects of water waves: particularly, global regularity versus finite time singularities; the existence of traveling waves and their characterization; the stability and instability of traveling waves. Her projects emphasize large scale dynamics and genuinely nonlinear behaviors, such as breaking and peaking.