Alumni

Former MSc students

Claus Bendtsen (MSc’92, Technical University of Denmark, DK)
Thesis: Spectral Methods on a Massively Parallel Computer

Lars K. Lundin (MSc’92, Technical University of Denmark, DK)
Thesis: Spectral Methods on a Massively Parallel Computer

Hendrik Riedmann (MSc’10, University of Stuttgart, D)
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Andreas Stock (MSc’10, University of Stuttgart, D)
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Sabina Hoffmann (MSc’08, University of Hamburg, D)
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Allan Nielsen (MSc’12, Technical University of Denmark, DK)
Thesis: Feasibility Study of the Parareal Algorithm

Manuel  Florian Schmid (MSc’15, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Resolution of the Gibbs Phenomenon for Navier-Stokes Equations

Marco Sutti (MSc’15, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Analysis and Optimization of Perfectly Matched Layers for the Boltzmann Equation.

Boris Bonev (MSc’15, University of Stuttgart, D)
Thesis: Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Shallow Water Equations

Caterina Bigoni (MSc’15, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Adaptive WENO Methods based on Non-Polynomial Reconstructions

Jonathan Droxler (MSc’16, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Computation of superlensing and cloaking using negative index metamaterial

Gilles Brunner (MSc’16, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Optimizing the Parareal Method for Shallow Water Equations

Killian Thomas (MSc’16, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: 2D adaptive WENO methods based on RBF reconstructions

Stefani Guarino (MSc’16, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Spectral deferred correction methods for differential integral equations

Seif Ben Bader (MSc’16, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: iCeBOUND Project – Porting a Solar Energy Potential Algorithm on GPU

Bozorgmehr Aminian (MSc’17, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Drag Prediction of LEO Satellites with Artificial Neural Network

Dario Marvin (MSc’17, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Computational Modeling of Cloaking

Stefano Ubbiali (MSc’17, EPFL/Milan, CH)
Thesis: Reduced order modeling of nonlinear problems using neural networks

Nicolo Ripamonti (MSc’17, EPFL/Milan, CH)
Thesis: Energy-preserving model reduction of fluid flows

Fabien Rochat (MSc’18, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Bayesian Inference in Parametric Acoustic Wave Equation

Niccolo Discacciati (MSc’18, EPFL/Milan, CH)
Thesis: Controlling oscillations in high-order schemes using neural networks

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Former PhD students

Baolin Yang (PhD’98, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Spectral Methods and Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Maxwell’s Equations.

Chun-Hao Teng (PhD’01, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Numerical Methods for Wave Problems in Complex Geometries.

Qian-Yong Chen (PhD’04, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Topics in Spectral Methods.

Lucas Wilcox (PhD’06, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: High-Order Accurate Methods for Solving the Time-Harmonic Maxwell’s Equations.

Alex Kanevsky (PhD’06, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Implicit-Explicit Runge-Kutta Methods for Fluid Flow Simulations.

Laura Lurati (PhD’06, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Spectral Methods for Dealing with Uncertainty and the Gibbs Phenomenon.

Sehun Chun (PhD’08, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: High-Order Accurate Methods for Solving Maxwell’s Equations and their Applications.

Akil Narayan (PhD’09, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: A Generalization of the Wiener Rational Basis Functions on Infinite Intervals.

Alan Schiemenz (PhD’09, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Advances in the Discontinuous Galerkin Method: Hybrid Schemes and Applications to the Reactive Infiltration Instability in an Upwelling Compacting Mantle.

Andreas Klöckner (PhD’10, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: High-performance high-order simulations of wave and plasma phenomena.

Scott Field (PhD’11, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Applications of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods to Computational General Relativity.

Sheri Martinelli (PhD’12, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: A Level-Sets-Based Wavefront Propagation Method for Underwater Acoustics

Kenny Chowdhary (PhD’12, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty Quantication/Sparse Gradient Image Recovery from Fourier and Edge Data

Paul Cazeaux (PhD’13, Paris VI, France and Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Quelques modeles mathematiques homogeneises appliques a la modelisation du parenchyme pulmonaire

Xueyu Zhu (PhD’13, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Reduced Basis Methods and Their applications

Seshu Turipathi (PhD’14, Brown University, USA)
Thesis: Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Magma Dynamics

Babak Maboudi Afkham (PhD’18, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Geometric Model Order Reduction

Allan Svejstrup Nielsen (PhD’18, EPFL, CH)
Thesis: Scaling and Resilience in Numerical Algorithms for Exascale Computing

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Former Postdoctoral assistans

Tim Warburton (’99-’01, Brown University, USA)

Cedric Chauviere (’01-’03, Brown University, USA)

Luke Olson (’03-’05, Brown University, USA)

Gustaav Jacobs (’03-’06, Brown University, USA)

Eugene Kashdan (’05-’06, Brown University, USA)

Jeronimo Rodriguez (’05-’06, Brown University, USA)

Stephen Lau (’06-’08, Brown University, USA)

Yanlai Chen (’07-’10, Brown University USA)

Benjamin Stamm (’08-’10, Brown University, USA)

Khosro Shahbazi (08-’11, Brown University, USA) 

Bin Zhang (’10-’11, Brown University, USA)

Shun Zhang (’10-’13, Brown University, USA)

Feng Chen (’12-’14, Brown University USA)

Salomon Jahunen (’13-’14, Brown University, USA)

Paul Cazeaux(’13-’14 Brown University, USA, ’14-’15, EPFL, CH)

Paolo Gatto (’13-’17, EPFL, CH)

Daniel Baffet (’13-’17, EPFL, CH)

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Former long term visitors

Kim Dridi (8/’00-2/’01, Technical University of Denmark, DK)

Jesper Grooss (8/’02-2/’03, Technical University of Denmark, DK)

Allan Peter Engsig-Karup (8/’04-3/’05, Technical University of Denmark, DK)

Eivind Brodal (7/’05-12/05; 8/’06-12/’06, University of Tromso, N)

Stefan Engblom (10/’06-6/’07, Uppsala University, S)

Sabina Hofmann (10/’07-3/’08, University of Hamburg, D)

Arnel Tampos (9/’08-12/’08, University of Philippines, Philippines)

Hendrik Riedmann (4/’09-10/’09, University of Stuttgart, D)

Andreas Stock (4/’09-10/’09, University of Stuttgart, D)

Meilin Liu (9/’08 – 12/’09, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, PRC)

Gao Zhen (9/’08 – 8/’10 Ocean University of China, Qiandao, PRC)

Weihua Deng (9/’09-8/’10, Lanzhou University, PRC)

Qinwu Xu (9/’11-9/’13, Central South University, PRC)

Jens Zudrop (3/’14-10/’14, University of Aachen, D)

Khemraj Shukla (9/’14-5/’15, Oklahoma State University, USA)

Rasmus Ellebark Christensen (9/’14-1/’15, Technical University of Denmark, DK)

Martin Hess (9/’14-11/’14, MPI Madgeburg, D)

Wang Chen (10/’14-9/’15, Northwestern Polytechnic University, PRC)

Somayeh Yeganeh (10/’15-4/’16, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran)

Lijing Zhao (10/’15-10/’16, Lanzhou University, PRC)

Richard Grizivatz (4/’16-9/’16, Ecole Centrale, Lyon, F)

Magnus Dam (4/’16-8/’16,Technical University of Denmark, DK)

Jian Yu (12/’16-12/’17, Beihang University, Beijing, PRC)

Mayha Hajihassanpour (9/’17-3/’18, Sharif University, Teheran, Iran)

Fatemeh Mojarrad (4/’18-10/’18, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran)

Ganesh Sundar Subramaniam (4/’18-10/’18, University of Aachen, D)

Jim Magiera (9/’18-12/’18, University of Stuttgart , D)

Mehran Mahdavi (6/’18-1/’19, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran)

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