SIAM Student Chapter Delft - Board

Buu-Van Nguyen

President

Welcome! My PhD research is about scalability of integrated energy networks. Currently, I am in my 2nd year and I am part of the Numerical Analysis group (DIAM). Moreover, I am supervised by Kees Vuik (TU Delft). I enjoy playing clarinet. From time to time I like to play mystery, rhythm and strategy games. I sometimes like to stand a long time in the kitchen to create delicious things that go in my tummy.

Hasti Garjani

Vice President and Treasurer

Hi! My name is Hasti, and I am a Ph.D. student in the Mathematical Physics group at the EEMCS faculty. I moved to the Netherlands to pursue my Ph.D. under the supervision of Johan Dubbeldam and Katerina Stankova. My Ph.D. research focuses on using game theory to improve the treatment of metastatic cancers. In my free time, I enjoy bouldering, cycling, and playing board games.

Hugo Verhelst

President

Hi! My name is Hugo Verhelst and I am a second-year PhD student in the Numerical Analysis group (EEMCS) as well as in the Maritime Transport and Technology group (3mE). My work focusses on the modelling of complex thin shell problems using Isogeometric Analysis and my daily supervisors are Matthias Möller (EEMCS) and Henk den Besten (3mE). I have been a proud citizen of Delft during my Bachelor and Master degrees, but I am currently living in the beautiful center of Utrecht. I love to cycle, run and play board games and during my holidays, I love to hike and to sail.

Elisa Atza

Vice President and Treasurer

Hello, I am a second year PhD student in the Numerical Analysis group (DIAM). I model plant growth under the supervision of Neil Budko and Kees Vuik. I studied Mathematics in Bologna (B.Sc.) and Bonn (M. Sc.) and after a short experience in consulting I moved to the Netherlands to pursue a PhD. I am an avid reader and I enjoy woodworking and sewing. In normal times I travel as much as possible.

Kishan Ramesh Kumar

Webmaster and Secretary

Hey, I am Kishan Ramesh Kumar pursuing my PhD (currently in 2nd year) in the DARSim group, Department of Geosciences (CiTG) I am working on Multi-scale modelling of subsurface H2 storage in porous reservoirs under the guidance of Dr. Hadi Hajibeygi. I did my bachelors in India, and masters at TU Delft in the department of mechanical engineering (3mE). In my free time I like to regularly workout, travel and also an avid reader of non-fiction books.

Roel Tielen

BaNaNa officer

Hi all! My name is Roel and I organize the so-called BaNaNa talks (link naar website). I am a third year PhD student at the Numerical Analysis department. My research is in the field of Isogeometric Analysis and particle methods (i.e. MPM). This research is preformed together with my promotor Prof. Kees Vuik and supervisor Matthias Moller. Apart from cycling on my racing bike and playing tennis, I am a proud member of our department football team, the Krylov Tigers.

Qiyao Peng

President

Hi, my name is Qiyao, and everyone calls me Alice here. I am a third year PhD in Numerical Analysis group, under the supervision of Dr.ir. Fred Vermolen and promotor Prof.dr.ir. Kees Vuik. My research is about burn injuries and wound healing, and we want to improve the model such that it can be used as a tool to estimate the probablity that the patients may develop complications after a severe injury. In my spare time, I like cooking, playing the badminton and travelling if my wallet permits.

Prajakta Nakate

Vice President and Secretary

Hi All, My Name is Prajakta Nakate. I am Ph.D. student at numerical analysis group. My Ph.D. project is in collaboration with a company named Aluchemie that has anode baking furnaces in Rotterdam. I am working on the mathematical model of the anode baking furnace to reduce NOx emissions. Apart from work, I like to cook, travel with friends, go for hiking, workout in the gym, do yoga (not really great at it yet though)

Linlin Bu

Treasurer

Hi, my name is Linlin Bu. I am a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kees Oosterlee. I am interested in numerical analysis of PDE, especially fractional differential equations. In daily life, I like music, cooking and reading.

Roel Tielen

BaNaNa officer

Varun Jain

President

My name is Varun and I am a PhD Candidate in Department of Aerospace Engineering. My phD project focusses on development of conservative and affordable discretization schemes. In my free time I like to read fiction, cook, play table-tennis, hiking or spend my day at the beach (weather permitting 😉 )

Amey Vasulkar

Vice President and Web Master

Hi, my name is Amey (pronounced: aa-mey-ya :P). I am Ph.D. candidate at the Mathematical Physics group at TU Delft. I work on the FAST4NL project where I am responsible to develop a numerical model for the water level variations due to melting of the Arctic ice and calibrate the model using the altimter-data. My advisor and promotor is Dr. Martin Verlaan. I like to cook food, fly my new drone (amateur), play flute or party on the weekends.

Shuaiqiang Liu

Secretary

My name is Shuaiqiang Liu and I am a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Kees Oosterlee. My current research interests lie in machine learning and computational finance, e.g., developing deep neural networks for risk management. As a player of the football team, the Krylov Tigers, I have been enjoying regular matches in the league of TUD. I also play badminton in the spare time, better than football:-)

Xiujie Shan

Treasurer

My name is Xiujie Shan. I am now a Ph.D. student at the Delft University of Technology. My supervisor is Martin van Gijzen. My major is numerical mathematics and research areas include the medical image denoising, deblurring and etc. In daily life, I like swimming, biking and reading.

Roel Tielen

BaNaNa officer

Merel de Leeuw den Bouter

President

Hi, my name is Merel. I am a PhD candidate under the supervision of Martin van Gijzen. I am working in a team that is developing an inexpensive and portable version of an MRI scanner for developing countries. My focus is on developing algorithms for image reconstruction. Some of my hobbies are playing tennis, dancing salsa, singing and skiing.

Mousa Hosseinimehr

Vice President

Hola! This is Mousa, secretary and vice president. I am a PhD candidate at both EWI and CiTG faculties. My project is related to multilevel dynamic methods for CFD modeling on fractured porous media. I am working with Kees Vuik and Hadi Hajibeygi. I play in Krylov Tigers football team. And I am a Latin dance addict! salsa, bachata (my favorite), kizomba, ballroom, you name it :D

Roel Tielen

Treasurer, baNaNa officer

My name is Roel and I am the treasurer of the board. Furthermore, I organize the so-called BaNaNa talks (link naar website). My research is in the field of Isogeometric Analysis and is performed together with my daily supervisor Matthias Moller and promotor Prof. Kees Vuik. I am a proud member of our department football team, the Krylov Tigers. In my spare time, apart from cooking and cycling on my racing bike, I like to play tennis against our president :-)

Jochen Hinz

Webmaster, External Relations officer

My name is Jochen and I am a PhD candidate under the supervision of Matthias Möller and Kees Vuik. In my master's, I studied applied mathematics and physics. My current research interests lie in spline-based parameterization techniques for Isogeometric Analysis applications. In my spare time, I play the piano and the guitar (sometimes alone, sometimes with friends), do sports or read about other topics that interest me like history and geography.

Anne Markenseijn

President

Hello! My name is Anne and I am currently doing my PhD project at the TU Delft under the supervision of Johan Romate and Kees Vuik. My project focuses on the integration of a power grid, gas network and district heating network into one model. Next to math I like doing sports, baking and playing board games.

Jörn Zimmerling

Vice President

Hello! I am Jörn Zimmerling a PhD student at TU Delft in the Research Group Circuits and Systems. My Co-promotor and daily supervisor is Rob Remis. My mathematical field of interest span a wide range. Specific topic include modelling of wave phenomena, model order reduction, Krylov methods and inverse problems. I am especially enthusiastic about connections between mathematics and physics. Next to math I like to spend my time biking, and outdoors in the nature.

Gabriela Diaz Cortes

Secretary

Hello! My name is Gaby and I am a PhD student at TU Delft in the Numerical Analysis department. My promotors are prof. Kees Vuik and prof. Jan Dirk Jansen. My research field is applied mathematics, in particular, preconditioning techniques for Krylov subspaces and POD-based deflation methods. My applications are for reservoir simulation. As hobbies, I practice sports and I like music and traveling.

Jiao Chen

Treasurer

Hello! My name is Jiao Chen from China. I am doing my PhD supervised by Dr.ir. Fred Vermolen and Prof.dr.ir. Kees Vuik at TU Delft in the Research Group pf Numerical Analysis. My research is about numerical modelling of cancer development and inhibition. Besides math and biology, I like table tennis and music.

Patrick Fuchs

External Relations officer

Hi, I am Patrick Fuchs and I am doing my research in Electromagnetic modeling for MRI scanners with Rob Remis at the Circuits and Systems group. My mathematical interests lie in applied probability, modeling electromagnetics and inversion problems. Besides mathematics I enjoy making music a lot and I play the cello in various ensembles and orchestras as well as sing in a choir. Within the student chapter I am responsible for the website and our contacts with companies for excursions and talks.

Manuel Baumann

The baNaNa officer

Hello! My name is Manuel and I am a PhD student of Martin van Gijzen. My research is in the field of numerical linear algebra, but I am also interested in model order reduction and optimal control. Besides math, I like tennis and skying as well as traveling. Within the Student Chapter, I organize the so-called baNaNa talks.

Jorn Zimmerling

President

Lisa Wobbes

Vice president

Hello! My name is Lisa and I am a PhD student of Lars Beuth (Deltares) and Kees Vuik (TU Delft). The focus of my project is on the material point method and its application to flow slides. Furthermore, I like to participate in aerobics classes, spend time with my friends and travel.

Zaza van der Have

Secretary

My name is Zaza van der Have and my promotor and daily supervisor is prof.dr.ir. Kees Oosterlee. My research is in the field of financial mathematics, and it focuses on pricing financial derivatives with Fourier methods.

Menel Rahrah

Treasurer

Hello! My name is Menel and I am the treasurer of the SIAM Student Chapter at Delft University of Technology. I am also doing my PhD project at this university, supervised by Fred Vermolen and Kees Vuik. In my research I focus on the modeling of a new technique to infiltrate large amounts of water in the shallow subsurface, using the poro-elasticity model of Biot and Finite Element Method.

Baljinnyam Sereeter

Webmaster

My name is Baljinnyam Sereeter and I am from Mongolia. I am doing my PhD at TU Delft in the Research Group of Numerical Analysis. My daily supervisor is prof. Kees Vuik and Co-promotor is prof. Cees Witteveen. My research is focused on the mathematical model of the Smart Grid. Particular interest of scientific fields are numerical linear algebra, optimal control and data science.

Manuel Baumann

The baNaNa officer

Mohamed el Abbassi

Social-event officer

Hello! I’m Mohamed and my daily supervisor is dr. Domenico Lahaye. My promotor is prof.dr.ir. Kees Vuik. Coming from an applied study, I’m embracing the world of mathematics. My research field is about numerical modelling of turbulent incompressible flows, turbulence-chemistry interaction and heat transfer. Furthermore I like to practice different sports and love watching movies.

Manuel Baumann

president

Reinaldo Astudillo

vice president

Hello everyone! I'm Reinaldo and my Co-promotor and daily supervisor is dr.ir. Martin van Gijzen. My promotor is prof.dr.ir. Kees Vuik and my interest is Numerical linear algebra in general, focus on Krylov subspace methods, spectra and pseudospectra computations, linear systems, preconditioning.

Thea Vuik

secretary, treasurer

My name is Thea Vuik and I am the first secretary and treasurer of the first SIAM Student Chapter in The Netherlands, at Delft University of Technology. In addition to this honourable task, I am a PhD student, working with dr. Jennifer Ryan. My research focuses on the detection of shocks and discontinuities in discontinuous Galerkin schemes, using a multiwavelet decomposition. If you have any questions about my research or the SIAM Student Chapter, don't hesitate to ask me!

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