Team

The COMP-M team is made of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates from the Department of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research:

Beatrice Riviere

Noah G. Harding chair and professor
Dr. Riviere is the author of more than one hundred scientific publications in numerical analysis and scientific computing.  Her book on the theory and implementation of discontinuous Galerkin methods published by SIAM, is highly cited. Dr. Riviere has worked extensively of the derivation of numerical methods applied to problems in porous media and in computational fluid dynamics. Her current research deals with the development of high-order methods in time and in space for multiphase multicomponent flows (in rigid and deformable media); the modeling of pore scale flows for immiscible and miscible components; the numerical model of transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide in a network of blood vessels; the theoretical analysis of neural networks for image segmentation of biological tissues and the design on numerics-inspired neural networks.

Dr. Riviere is a SIAM Fellow, an AWM Fellow and an IACM Fellow. She has been engaged with various activities with SIAM; she was elected President of the SIAM TX-LA Section for 2020-2022 and was elected Chair of the SIAM activity group in Geosciences for 2019 and 2020. She is also a member of AWM and USACM and is actively involved with both societies.
Dr. Riviere has served on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Results in Applied Mathematics and Advanced in Water Resources.

 

Alyssa Taylor-LaPole

Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Taylor-LaPole received his Ph.D. in 2024 in Biomathematics at North Carolina State University. Her research interests are in modeling of cardiovascular phenomena and in sensitivity analysis.

Students are listed in reverse alphabetical order.

Arshia Singhal

Ph.D. graduate student
Arshia’s research interests are in numerical analysis and computational biology

Adrian Celaya

Ph.D. graduate student
Adrian’s research interests are in machine learning, image segmentation and scientific machine learning.

Cito Balsells

Ph.D. graduate student
Cito’s research interests are in machine learning and image segmentation.

George Chumbipuma

Ph.D. graduate student

Uzochi Gideon

Ph.D. graduate student

Jerry Villalobos

Ph.D. graduate student

Mani Puram

Undergraduate student

Pierce Zhang

Undergraduate student