The Numerical Mathematics Group

David I. Ketcheson

Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics
Individual website
david.ketcheson@kaust.edu.sa

Manvendra Rajvanshi

manvendra.Rajvanshi@kaust.edu.sa
Ph.D. from IISER Mohali, 2021
Individual website

Carlos Muñoz

carlos.munozmoncayo@kaust.edu.sa
Ph. D. student
MS Thesis: "Fast, Robust, Iterative Riemann Solvers for the Shallow Water and Euler Equations"
Research interests: Numerical analysis, nonlinear analysis, differential equations, and scientific computing.

Laila Busaleh

laila.busaleh@kaust.edu.sa
Ph. D. student
MS Thesis: "Homogenized Equations for Isothermal Gas in a Pipe with Periodically-Varying Cross-Section"

Gabriel Barrios

gabriel.barrios@kaust.edu.sa
MS/Ph. D. student

Tuo (Terence) Liu

tuo.liu@kaust.edu.sa
MS Degree 2024

Yousef Alamri

yousef.alamri@kaust.edu.sa
MS degree 2023

Abhijit Biswas

abhijit.biswas@kaust.edu.sa
Ph.D. from Temple University, 2021
Research interests: Numerical methods for partial differential equations, hyperbolic conservation laws, numerical analysis, time-stepping methods
Postdoc, 2022-2025
Next position: Assistant Professor, IIT Kaunpur, India
Current position: Assistant Professor, IIT Kaunpur, India

Manuel Quezada

Research Scientist, 2019-2021

Hendrik Ranocha

Individual website
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021 Next position: postdoc at U. Munster (Germany) Current position: Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Mainz, Germany

Yiannis Hadjimichael

Thesis topic:
Strong stability preserving time discretizations using downwind-biased spatial discretizations

PhD student, 2011-2017
Next postion: postdoctoral research, ELTE (Budapest)

João Reis

MS Student
Thesis topic: Stability of BDF-ADI discretizations

Lajos Lóczi

Visiting Professor
Current position: Professor at ELTE (Budapest)

Imre Fekete

Postdoctoral fellow, 2015-2016
Next position: Assistant professor, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary

Amal Alghamdi

MS thesis student, 2009-2012
MS Thesis topic: Parallelization of a hyperbolic PDE solver in Python
Graduated: MS 2012
Next position: PhD student at University of Texas at Austin, working with Omar Ghattas
Current position: Postdoc at Denmark Technical University

Matteo Parsani

Postdoctoral fellow, 2010-2013
Next position: Postdoctoral fellow at NASA, Langley
Current position: Associate professor at KAUST

Benson Muite

Postdoctoral fellow, 2013-2014
Research interests:
Continuum Mechanics, Partial Differential Equations, Spectral Methods, Numerical Methods, Parallel Computing

Manuel Quezada

MS thesis student, 2009-2011
Thesis topic: Solitary waves in two-dimensional periodic media
Graduated: MS 2011
Next position: PhD student at Texas A&M, working with Jean-Luc Guermond
Current position: US Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development

Aron Ahmadia

Research Scientist, 2009-2012
Next position: research scientist at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Current position: Senior Manager, Data Science, Capital One