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Affiliated Members

NAME
RESEARCH INTEREST
Miguel Anjos
BSc (McGill), MS (Stanford), CUT, PhD (Waterloo)
Computational Optimization
Shai Ben-David
BSc, MSc, PhD (Hebrew University)
Computational and Statistical Learning Theory, Applications of Statistical Learning to Data Mining, Sensor Networks, Approximation Algorithms and Processor Architecture
Dan Brown
SB(MIT), MS, PhD (Cornell University)
Bioinformatics, Sequence analysism Evolutionary modelling, Optimization, Stochastic algorithms
Dong Eui Chang
BSc (California), MSc and PhD (Seoul)

Optimal Control, Optimal theory of partial differential equations and differential algebra
Tom Coleman
BMath (Waterloo), MMath (Waterloo), PhD (Waterloo)
Practical and efficient numerical algorithms for continuous optimization problems. Computation of implied volatility surfaces from option prices, hedging techniques, index tracking, portfolio optimization, the use of parallel computing techniques in computational finance
Hans De Sterck
MElectEngin (Leuven), MPhys (Leuven & Wroclaw), PhD (Leuven)
Multilevel Sparse Matrix Solvers, Computational Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Parallel Bioinformatics on Computational Grids
Guangzhe Fan
BS (Shandong Univ of Technology, China), MA (Renmin, China), MS, PhD (Alabama)
Global Optimization, Stochastic Searching, Tree Models, Genetic Algorithms, Supervised Learning, Classification and Regression
Peter Forsyth
BSc (Western Ontario), MSc (Australian National), PhD (Western Ontario)
Computational Finance, numerical solution of partial differential equations, iterative methods for sparse matrices
Ricardo Fukasawa
BSc, MSc (Brazil), PhD (Georgia)

Computational aspects of Integer programming and discrete optimization
Mark Giesbrecht
BSc (UBC), MSc, PhD (Toronto)

Algorithms for symbolic linear and multi-linear algebra, symbolic-numeric algorithms for polynomials, factoring polynomials & differential operators, algebraic complexity
Keith Geddes
BA (Saskatchewan), PhD (Toronto)
Symbolic Computation, Hybrid symbolic-numeric algorithms
Yulia Gel
MSc, PhD (St. Petersburg State, Russia)
Computational statistics, spatio-temporal modelling with application to weather forecasting and functional magnetic resonance imaging data
Alan George
BSc, MSc (Alberta), PhD (Stanford)
Algorithms and Software for the solution of large scale linear algebra problems
Ali Ghodsi
BSc (Shiraz, Iran), MS (Montreal), PhD (Waterloo)
Machine Learning, Probabilistic Inference, Unsupervised Learning, Dimensionality Reduction

Chris Godsil
BSc, MSc, PhD (Melbourne)

Computational combinatorics
Robert Gracie
BSc (Ottawa), PhD (Northwestern)

New numerical methods. The extended/Generalized Finite Element Method, Meshfree Methods and Molecular Dynamics. Current applications include continuum-atomistic multiscale simulations of materials, CO2 sequestration in aquifer systems, and the modelling impact loading on infrastructure.
Kevin Hare
BMath (Waterloo), MSc, PhD (Simon Fraser)
Computational Number Theory
Brian Ingalls
BSc (U of King's College),
MS (Dalhousie), PhD (Rutgers)

Mathematical Control Theory, Systems Biology
Adam Kolkiewicz
MMath (Wroclaw), PhD (Waterloo)
Computational Finance and Monte Carlo Simulation Methods
Jochen Koenemann
MS (Saarbrucken), PhD (Carnegie Mellon)
Fast approximate algorithms for packing and covering linear programs
Lilia Krivodonova
BS, MS (St. Petersburg State University, Russia), PhD (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Numerical analysis, discontinuous Galerkin methods, adaptive schemes, scientific computing

George Labahn
BSc, MSc, PhD (Alberta)
Computer Algebra, Computational Finance
Kevin Lamb
BMath (Waterloo), PhD (Princeton)
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Nathalie Lanson-Thompson
Diploma, PhD (Instit National des
Sciences Appliquees, Toulouse)
Meshfree methods for partial differential equations (theory and applications)
Christiane Lemieux
BSc (Laval), MSc, PhD (Montreal)

Quasi-Monte Carlo methods, Stochastic Simulation, Computational Finance.
Yuying Li
BS (Sichuan-China), MSc (Waterloo),
PhD (Waterloo)
Computational Finance, Continuous optimization algorithms, scientific computing

John Lin
MA (Harvard), PhD (Harvard)

Atmospheric Applications, Climate and Weather modelling
Paul Marriott
MA (Oxon), MSc, PhD (Warwick)
Computational aspects of applications of geometry to statistical theory
Don McLeish
BSc (Queen's), MSc (Toronto), PhD (McGill)
Monte Carlo Methods and Stochastic Methods

Kirsten Morris
BSc (Queen's), MMath, PhD (Waterloo)

Control Systems
Wayne Oldford
BMath (Waterloo), MSc, PhD (Toronto)
Quantitative programming environments, data visualization, statistical computing
Jeff Orchard
BMath (Waterloo), MSc (UBC), PhD (Simon Fraser)
Image processing, medical imaging, CT reconstruction, image registration, frequency domain techniques, fractal image coding, photomosaics, dynamical systems

Francis Poulin
BSc (Alberta), MSc (Alberta), PhD (MIT)

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Biological Fluid Dynamics, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Pascal Poupart
BSc (McGill), MSc (UBC), PhD (Toronto)
Artificial intelligence, decision-theoretic planning, Markov decision processes, reasonning under uncertainty, statistica machine learning
Michael Rubinstein
BA, MA, PhD (Princeton)
Number theory, L-functions
Bruce Simpson
MASc (Toronto), PhD (Maryland)
Software and methods for solving partial differential equations and for unstructured mesh generation, with applications to finance and graphics
Jim Sloan
BSc, PhD (Queen's)
Atmospheric applications of chemistry and physics
Marek Stastna
BMath, MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
Computational Fluid Mechanics, Climate and Paleoclimate Simulation
Arne Storjohann
BMATH (Waterloo), MMath (Waterloo), PhD (ETH, Zurich)
Computer Algebra
Ken Seng Tan
BMath, MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
Computational Finance, Risk management, Actuarial Science
Edlyn Teske
MMath (Tech. U Berlin), PhD (Tech.
U Darmstadt)
Public-key Cryptography, Computational Number Theory
Levent Tuncel
BSc (Dokuz Eylul), MSc (Middle East Tech. U.), MSc, PhD (Cornell)
Computational Optimization (continuous and discrete)
Stephen Vavasis
A.B., Mathematics (Princeton), Cert. Adv. Stud., Mathematics (Cambridge), PhD, Computer Science (Stanford)
Continuous Optimization, numerical analysis, Computational Geometry
Michael Waite
BMath (Waterloo), PhD (McGill)
Geophysical fluid dynamics and numerical modelling of atmospheric dynamics
Justin Wan
BS (Hong Kong), PhD (California)
Numerical techniques for physical and biological simulations
Ross Willard
BA (Carleton College, Minnesota), MA (Toronto), MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
Universal algebra and complexity theory
Henry Wolkowicz
BSc, MSc, PhD (McGill)
Large Scale Numerical Optimization
sub areas: Semidefinite Programming, Numerical Linear Algebra
Nicholas Wormald
BSc (Australian National), PhD (Newcastle)
Network optimization, Simulation of random graph processes, Solution of ordinary differential equations with discontinuous derivatives
Mu Zhu
BA (Harvard), MS, PhD (Stanford)
Multivariate analysis, pattern recognition (classification and clustering), dimension reduction, variable selection, detection and retrieval of rare items from large databases, and data visualization

Staff

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Last Modified:  Monday 7 February 2011