Research Group

Current group members

• Thanin (Juju) Quartz, PhD student (Applied Math)
• Yun Su, PhD student (Applied Math)
• Guilherme De Araujo, PhD student (Applied Math)
• Yanming Kang, PhD student (Applied Math)
• Devin Blankespoor, Master's student (Applied Math with Quantum Information)
• Andrew Gray, Master's student (Applied Math)
• Adam Vieno, Master's student (Applied Math)

Former group members

• Sitanshu Gakkhar, postdoc (Applied Math)
• Phuong Dong Le, PhD student (Applied Math)
• Vyom Patel, Master's student (Applied Math with Quantum Information)
• Adam Smith, Master's student (Applied Math)
• Oliver Krzysik, postdoc (2021–2023)
• Andersen (Man Shun) Ang, postdoc (2021–2023)
• Yifan Qu, undergraduate research student (May–Aug 2023)
• Juju (Thanin) Quartz, Master's student (Applied Math) (2020–2022)
• William Zhou, Master's student (Data Science) (2020–2022)
• Waqas Hamed, Master's student (Computational Mathematics) (2021–2022)
• Shuhui Zhu, Master's student (Computational Mathematics) (2020–2021)
• Oliver Krzysik, PhD student (Mathematics, at Monash University) (2017–2021)
• Stanislav Polishchuk, PhD student (Mathematics, at Monash University) (2017–2021)
• Paul Coones, undergraduate research student (Sep–Dec 2021)
• Qizhao Huang, undergraduate research student (May–Aug 2021)
• Yunhui He, postdoc (2019–2021)
• Matthew Hall, Master's student (Computational Mathematics) (2020–2021)
• Dawei Wang, PhD student (2019–2020)
• Aaron Baier-Reinio, undergraduate research student (Sep–Dec 2019 and May–August 2020)
• Tim Dockhorn, Master's student (Applied Math) (2017–2019)
• Xuemeng Zhang, undergraduate research student (Sep–Dec 2019)
• Sarthak Chakraborty, undergraduate research student (May–July 2019)

Former group members at Monash University, 2015–2018

• Thien-Binh Nguyen, postdoc (with Paul Cally), 2016–2018
• Sarah Jabbari, postdoc (with Paul Cally), 2016–2018
• Simon Kiesewetter, postdoc (with Hans Elmlund), 2017–2018
• Samuel Schneider, Honours thesis (with Tiangang Cui), 2018
• Drew Mitchell, Honours thesis, 2018
• Jess Suares, Undergraduate Research Student, summer 2018
• Phillip Luong, Undergraduate Research Student (with Gregoire Loeper and Ivan Guo), summer 2017–2018
• Jamin Wu, Undergraduate Research Student (with Hans Elmlund), summer 2017–2018
• Edward Yang, Undergraduate Research Student (with Ha Bui), summer 2017–2018
• Drew Mitchell, Undergraduate Research Student, summer 2017–2018
• Eleanor Day, Undergraduate Research Student, summer 2016–2017
• Randall Chu, Undergraduate Research Student, summer 2016–2017
• Samuel Schneider, Undergraduate Research Student, summer 2016–2017
• Edward Finn Dann, Undergraduate Research Student, summer 2016–2017
• Samuel Schneider, Undergraduate Research Student, “Numerical optimisation for big data analytics”, summer 2015–2016

Former group members at University of Waterloo, 2005–2015

• Alex Howse, PhD Applied Mathematics, 2013–2017
• John Lang, PhD Applied Mathematics, “Mathematical Modelling of Social Factors in Decision Making Processes at the Individual and Population Levels”, 2011–2016
• Manda Winlaw, PhD Applied Mathematics, “Algorithms and Models for Tensors and Networks with Applications in Data Science”, 2009–2016
• Michael Hynes, M.Math. Applied Mathematics, “A Taylor polynomial expansion line search for large-scale optimization”, 2014–2016
• Shawn Brunsting, M.Math. Computational Mathematics, “Algorithms for Analysis of Twitter Data using Spark”, 2014–2015
• Anant Subramanian, undergraduate research assistant (MITACS Globalink fellowship), May–July 2015
• Lucian Ivan, Postdoc, “MHD simulation on cubed-sphere grids”, 2009–2015
• Andree Susanto, PhD Applied Mathematics, “Numerical methods for MHD”, 2009–2014
• Chris DeGroot, “Advanced simulation methods for a next generation computational fluid dynamics solver”, 2012–2014
• Kenneth Webster, Master's Applied Mathematics, “Multigrid algorithms for image inpainting”, 2012–2014
• Anthony Caterini, Undergraduate Research, “Multilevel co-clustering”, Fall 2013, Spring 2014; “Matrix factorization for recommendation”, Fall 2014, Winter 2015
• Junyu Lai, “Efficient Implementation of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm in Spark”, 2012–2014
• Yuzhi Xu, MITACS Globalink Undergraduate Research Student, “Advanced algorithms for social network analysis with Hadoop/MapReduce”, Spring 2013
• Haifeng Xu, Master's Computational Mathematics, 2012–2013, project: Multilevel clustering of social network data.
• Minghua Lin, PhD Applied Mathematics (co-supervised with Henry Wolkowicz), 2011–2013, project: Angles, Majorization, Wielandt Inequality and Applications.
• Rasha Kashef, postdoc, 2011–2013, project: Multilevel community detection in social networks.
• Killian Miller, PhD Applied Mathematics, 2007–2012, project: Algebraic Multigrid for Markov Chains and Tensor Decomposition.
• Yasunori Aoki, PhD Applied Mathematics (co-supervised with David Siegel), 2007–2012, project: Numerical methods for the Capillarity Equation.
• Kenneth Webster, Master's Computational Mathematics, 2011–2012 (OGS fellowship).
• Chen Zhang, PhD CS, 2006–2011, project: Cloud computing for scientific applications. Currently a postdoc at the McGill CS department.
• Johann Setiawan, Master's Computational Mathematics, 2009–2011, project: Iterative solvers with Hadoop/MapReduce.
• Lee Betchen, postdoc, Jan–May 2011.
• Yuan Wang, undergraduate research student, 2009–2010, project: Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for spin systems.
• Geoffrey Sanders, visiting postdoc, May–November 2009.
• Jianping Shen, Master's Computational Mathematics, 2008–2010.
• Adley Au, Master's Applied Mathematics, 2007–2009 (NSERC fellowship), project: Clustering methods for biomedical image processing.
• Scott Rostrup, Master's Applied Mathematics, 2007–2009 (OGS fellowship), project: Fluid dynamics simulation on Cell and GPU.
• Tiffany Chao, Master's Computational Mathematics, 2008–2009 (NSERC fellowship).
• Manda Winlaw, Master's Computational Mathematics, 2008–2009.
• Daniel Park, Undergraduate Research Student, 2008–2009, project: Numerical methods on GPUs.
• Zhiyuan Wu, undergraduate research student, 2008, project: Grid computing for bioinformatics.
• Shawn Andrews, NSERC USRA research student, Summer 2008. Master's in CS at Simon Fraser University (2008–2010).
• Zhiyuan Wu, coop research student, Fall 2007, project: Grid computing for bioinformatics.
• James Pearson, NSERC summer student, summer 2007, project: Multilevel Adaptive Aggregation for Markov Chains Applied to Google's PageRank. Master's in C&O at Waterloo (2008–2009).
• Paul Ullrich, summer 2007, project: Development of a 3D Finite Volume Solver on Unstructured Grids. PhD in Atmospheric Science at the University of Michigan (from 2007).
• Quoc Nguyen, research student, spring–summer 2006, project: Efficient calculation of Google's PageRank. PhD in finance at University of Illinois (from 2007).
• Lei Tang, Master's Applied Mathematics, 2005–2007, project: hp-Adaptive Least-Squares Finite Element Methods and Nonlinearity. PhD in Applied Math at University of Colorado at Boulder from Fall 2007.
• Jeff Butler, Master's Applied Mathematics, 2004–2006, project: Parallel Algebraic Multigrid Solvers. Currently working at CIBC in Toronto.
• Sasha Papo, coop student, spring 2006, projects: “An efficient web crawler for Google PageRank” and “Database-driven grid computing”.
• Nina Gavrilovic, Undergraduate Thesis, 2005–2006, project: Calculating critical trajectories in ODE systems.
• Paul Ullrich, NSERC summer student, summer 2005, project: Unstructured Grid Solvers for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.
• Scott Rostrup, NSERC summer student, summer 2005, project: Modeling Hydrodynamic Escape from Planetary Atmospheres.
• Nizar Nadeem, coop student, summer 2005, project: Length-effects in RNA helices: simulation on computational grids.
• Matt Keoshkerian, coop student, winter 2005, project: Enhancing the TaskSpaces grid computing framework.