Matthew West

Current students and postdocs

Binglin Chen Postdoc, CS, UIUC, co-advised with Craig Zilles chen386@illinois.edu
Jeffrey Curtis Postdoc, Atmos. Sci., UIUC, co-advised with Nicole Riemer jcurtis2@illinois.edu
Chuanzheng "Chad" Li Ph.D. student, MechSE, UIUC, co-advised with Hae-Won Park cli67@illinois.edu
Matin Mohebalhojeh Ph.D. student, MechSE, UIUC matinm2@illinois.edu
Nicholas Nytko Ph.D. student, CS, UIUC, co-advised with Luke Olson nnytko2@illinois.edu
Seth Poulsen Ph.D. student, CS, UIUC, co-advised with Geoffrey Herman sethp3@illinois.edu
Ehsan Saleh Ph.D. student, CS, UIUC, co-advised with Tim Bretl ehsans2@illinois.edu
Ali Taghibakhshi Ph.D. student, MechSE, UIUC alit2@illinois.edu

Graduated students

Alan Zorn Ph.D. 2019, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, co-advised with Sanjay Lall "Multipoint optimal control with applications to space flight"
Jeffrey Curtis Ph.D. 2019, Atmospheric Sciences, UIUC, co-advised with Nicole Riemer "Particle-resolved aerosol modeling on the regional scale: Insights into importance of capturing aerosol mixing state"
Chenchao Shou Ph.D. 2018, Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC "Learning-accelerated algorithms for simulation and optimization"
Peter Maginnis Ph.D. 2018 and M.S. 2011, Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC, co-advised with Geir Dullerud "Variance reduction for Poisson and Markov jump processes"
Pradeep Gudla Ph.D. 2016, Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC "High-order multistep asynchronous splitting methods (MASM) for the numerical solution of multiple-time-scale ordinary differential equations"
Nakul Nuwal M.S. 2016, Aerospace Engineering, UIUC, co-advised with Nicole Riemer "Explicit stochastic schemes for transport in particle-resolved simulations"
Matthew Michelotti M.S. 2013, Computer Science, UIUC, co-advised with Michael Heath "Binning for efficient stochastic particle simulations"
Chowdhury Ashraf M.S. 2012, Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC "Adaptive step-size selection for tau-leaping simulation of stochastic particle coalescence"
Laurent Lessard Ph.D. 2011, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, co-advised with Sanjay Lall "Tractability of complex control systems"
Rishabh Jain M.S. 2011, Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC "An efficient multinomial sampling algorithm for spatially distributed stochastic particle simulations"
Sun Hwan Lee Ph.D. 2010, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University "Parallel stochastic particle methods using Markov Chain random walks"
Christina Selle Ph.D. 2010, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University "Multiscale distributed estimation with applications to GPS augmentation and network spectra"
Tzu-Chen Liang Ph.D. 2008, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University "Topology Optimization of Microfluidic Mixing Channels and Cutoff Phenomena in Chaotic Mixing", winner of the 2008 Ballhaus Prize for Best Ph.D Thesis in Aeronautics and Astronautics
Michael Salomon Ph.D. 2008, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, co-advised with Alex Silbergleit "Properties of Gravity Probe B Gyroscopes Obtained from High Frequency Squid Signal"
Mong Tang Ni Engineer 2008, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University "Analysis of a Fluid Structure Interaction Problem Using an Immersed Boundary Method with a Finite Element Approach"