People

Group Lead

Jed Brown

jed.brown@colorado.edu

Jed is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and leads the Physical Prediction, Inference, and Design Group. Among other community software work, he is a maintainer of PETSc and libCEED, and Associate Editor for JOSS. He likes climbing, skiing, running, and spending time with his two daughters.

Research Associates

Adeleke O. Bankole

adeleke.bankole@uni-hamburg.de

Adeleke is a Research Associate interested in the design, development, analysis and implementation of numerical methods/algorithms, PDE discretizations (FVM, FDM, FEM, Meshfree Particle Methods) applied to fluid flow simulations. He enjoys doing HIIT sports.

PhD Students

Jeremy Thompson | Applied Math

jeremy.thompson@colorado.edu

Jeremy is a former USAFA professor and USAF OR analyst. He is a core developer of libCEED interested in performance-portable high-order finite element methods, matrix-free multigrid, and computational fluid and solid mechanics.

Leila Ghaffari | Computer Science

leila.ghaffari@colorado.edu

Leila (lay-lah) is one of the developers of libCEED interested in high-order finite element methods, computational fluid mechanics, and preconditioning methods for CFD solvers.

Rezgar Shakeri | Civil Engineering

rezgar.shakeri@colorado.edu

Graduate student in Civil Engineering working on mixed-FEM for porous media and incompressible materials.

Mike McCabe | Computer Science

michael.mccabe@colorado.edu

Mike is a PhD student working on integrating machine learning and numerical methods for computational science. His current interests include SciML and optimization for deep learning.

Rey Koki | Computer Science

Ren Stengel | Computer Science

Constance Delannoy | Applied Math

Sarah Gage | Computer Science

Masters Students

Emily Jakobs | Applied Math

emily.jakobs@colorado.edu

Emily is a M.S. student in Applied Math who is working on applying machine learning to inverse problems in computational solid and fluid mechanics. Interests include statistics in dynamical systems, algorithmic differentiation, and robust numerical PDE methods.

Undergraduate Students

Devon Quispe

Zack Jorquera | Computer Science

zackary.jorquera@colorado.edu

Zack is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. In his free time he likes to hike, ski, and whitewater kayak.

David Reeder

Alumni

Name	Position	Current Position
Valeria Barra	Postdoc, 2018-2020	RSE, Caltech
Tristan Konolige	PhD Student, 2016-2020	MLSys Engineer, OctoML
Dmitry Duplyakin	PhD Student, 2015-2017	Researcher III, NREL
Matthew Normile	BS+MS Student, 2017-2019	Engineer

PhyPID Group Projects