Research Group

Current group members

  • Oliver Krzysik, postdoc
  • Andersen (Man Shun) Ang, postdoc
  • Yanming Kang, PhD student (Applied Math)
  • Phuong Dong Le, PhD student (Applied Math)
  • Juju (Thanin) Quartz, Master's student (Applied Math)
  • William Zhou, Master's student (Data Science)
  • Waqas Hamed, Master's student (Computational Mathematics)

Former group members

  • 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.