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Professor Matteo Parsani received his Master’s in Aerospace Engineering in 2006 from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from Vrije Universiteit, Belgium.

Parsani’s journey at KAUST began when he joined the University as a postdoctoral fellow in 2010. Four years later, while pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship at NASA’s Langley Research Center in the United States, he received an offer to return to KAUST as a professor.

He is now an associate professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division and the principal investigator of the Advanced Algorithms and Simulations Lab (AANSLab). Parsani is also affiliated with the Mechanical Engineering Program at KAUST.

His research focuses on developing self-adaptive, variable-order, robust algorithms for compressible flows and advection-reaction-diffusion, designing efficient simulation codes and deploying them on large parallel platforms.

Parsani's high-performance computational solvers and libraries are utilized to tackle complex engineering challenges in collaboration with industry partners such as Boeing, NASA’s Langley Research Center (LaRC), the McLaren F1 racing team, Airbus, E1 Series and Lucid Motors.

Research Interests

Professor Matteo Parsani’s research interests are related to designing and implementing novel, robust and scalable numerical methods. Specifically, unstructured grids for hyperbolic and mixed hyperbolic/parabolic partial differential equations.

A core focus of Parsani’s research is on efficient and robust algorithms for the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic design of aerospace vehicles. Additionally, he studies non-classical gas-dynamic phenomena for energy conversion systems and the investigation of biological flow in cancer treatments.

His current research examines the stability and efficiency of spatial and temporal discretizations and structure-preserving methods that can mimic results from the continuous to the discrete level. A number of application domains are currently driving his research, including computational aerodynamics, dense gas flow simulations, and computational aeroacoustics.

Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Mechanical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2010
Master of Science (M.S.)
Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2006

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Roberto earned a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Padova in 2014. Then he obtained a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics at Politecnico di Torino in 2017. Subsequently he earned a Ph.D. in pure and applied mathematics at Politencnico di Torino under a Marie Curie Horizon 2020 program in 2021.

Research Interests

Roberto's research involves numerical analysis of high-order algorithms for solving partial, ordinary, fractional, and integral equations. He is also interested in approximation theory in the context of numerical methods for partial differential equations. Furthermore, he also works on multiphysics models, coupled algorithms, and randomized linear algebra.

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