Teaching & Mentoring
| Current Teaching (Temple University) |
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| Spring 2026 | 2197. Mathematical Modeling and Simulation | |
| Past Teaching (Temple University) | ||
| Fall 2025 | 8107. Mathematical Modeling for Science, Engineering, and Industry, co-taught with Gillian Queisser, Daniel Szyld | |
| Spring 2025 | 2121. Mathematical Modeling and Simulation | |
| Fall 2024 | 8200. Topics in Applied Mathematics: Multiscale Modeling and Methods | |
| Spring 2024 | 2121. Mathematical Modeling and Simulation | |
| Fall 2023 | 8200. Topics in Applied Mathematics: Control Theory | |
| Spring 2023 | 5044. Introduction to Numerical Analysis II | |
| Fall 2022 | 9200. Topics in Numerical Analysis I: Computational Methods for Flow Problems | |
| Spring 2022 | 8024. Numerical Differential Equations II | |
| 8107. Mathematical Modeling for Science, Engineering, and Industry, co-taught with Isaac Klapper, Gillian Queisser, Daniel Szyld | ||
| Fall 2021 | 8023. Numerical Differential Equations I | |
| Spring 2020 | 8024. Numerical Differential Equations II | |
| Fall 2019 | 8023. Numerical Differential Equations I | |
| Spring 2019 | 5044. Introduction to Numerical Analysis II | |
| Fall 2018 | 8200. Topics in Applied Mathematics: Control Theory and Practice | |
| Spring 2018 | SCTC 2100. Topics in Science and Technology: Modeling and Simulation in Science and Technology | |
| 8107. Mathematical Modeling for Science, Engineering, and Industry, co-taught with Isaac Klapper, Gillian Queisser, Daniel Szyld | ||
| Fall 2017 | 1041. Calculus I | |
| Spring 2017 | 8024. Numerical Differential Equations II | |
| Fall 2016 | 8023. Numerical Differential Equations I | |
| Spring 2016 | SCTC 2100. Topics in Science and Technology: Modeling and Simulation in Science and Technology | |
| Spring 2015 | 9200. Topics in Numerical Analysis I: Computational Methods for Flow Problems | |
| Spring 2014 | 1042. Calculus II | |
| Fall 2013 | 8107. Mathematical Modeling for Science, Engineering, and Industry, co-taught with Yury Grabovsky, Isaac Klapper, Daniel Szyld | |
| Spring 2012 | 3044. Numerical Analysis II | |
| Fall 2011 | 3043. Numerical Analysis I | |
| 8200. Topics in Applied Mathematics: Mathematical Modeling Course, co-taught with Yury Grabovsky and Daniel Szyld | ||
| Fall 2010 | 8024. Numerical Differential Equations II | |
| Spring 2010 | 8023. Numerical Differential Equations I | |
| 8200. Topics in Applied Mathematics: Mathematical Modeling Course, co-taught with Yury Grabovsky, Daniel Szyld | ||
| Fall 2009 | 2043. Calculus III | |
| Past Teaching (MIT) | ||
| Spring 2009 | 18.336 - Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations → MIT OCW , lecture notes | |
| Fall 2008 | Recitations on 18.02 - Multivariable Calculus | |
| Spring 2008 | 18.086 - Computational Science and Engineering II | |
| Fall 2007 | Recitations on 18.03 - Differential Equations | |
| Spring 2007 | 18.086 - Mathematical Methods for Engineers II | |
| Fall 2006 | Recitations on 18.02 - Multivariable Calculus | |
| Past Teaching (University of Kaiserslautern) | ||
| Spring 2004 | Tutorials on Partial Differential Equations | |
| Spring 2003 | Tutorials on Partial Differential Equations | |
| Spring 2002 | Tutorial on Computational Fluid Dynamics | |
| Fall 2001/2002 | Tutorials on Analysis 1 | |
| Spring 2002 | Tutorials on Ordinary Differential Equations | |
| Fall 1999/2000 | Introduction to MATLAB | |
| Mentoring of Postdoctoral Researchers | ||
| 2024-2025 | Sean McQuade (research associate) | |
| 2022-2024 | Kiera Kean (NSF postdoctoral fellow) | |
| 2021-2024 | Rujeko Chinomona (postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor) | |
| 2021-2024 | Mengsha Yao (postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor) | |
| 2020-2023 | Stephanie Lewkiewicz (postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor, co-advised by Matthew Helmus, Temple Biology) | |
| 2020-2021 | Rabie Ramadan (postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor) | |
| 2015-2016 | Shumo Cui (postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor) | |
| 2014-2018 | Dong Zhou (postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor) | |
| 2012-2016 | Sunnie Joshi (postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor) | |
| 2010-2013 | Prince Chidyagwai (postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor) | |
| Advising of Graduate Students | ||
| 2024-present | Blessing Nwonu (PhD student) | |
| 2022-present | Nicole Zalweski (PhD student) | |
| 2022-present | Jacob Woods (PhD student) | |
| 2020-2024 | Nour Khoudari (PhD student) | |
| 2017-2021 | Abhijit Biswas (PhD student) | |
| 2017-2020 | Najmeh Salehi (PhD student) | |
| 2016-2020 | Joshua Finkelstein (PhD student) | |
| 2016-2020 | Rabie Ramadan (PhD student) | |
| 2014-2015 | Julia Somers (MS student, research) | |
| 2010-2014 | Dong Zhou (PhD student) | |
| 2010-2013 | Shimao Fan (PhD student) | |
| Advising of Undergraduate Student Researchers | ||
| 2025 | Nene Coulibaly (Temple RSP) | |
| 2025 | Matthew Coleman (Temple RSP) | |
| 2025 | Adam Marx (Temple RSP) | |
| 2024-present | Maryam Amr (Temple RSP) | |
| 2024 | Beatriz Souza De Cerqueira (Temple RSP) | |
| 2024-2025 | Fatma Seker | |
| 2023-2024 | Malvin Prifti | |
| 2023-2024 | Jaden Howard (Frances Velay Fellowship) | |
| 2022 | Brandon Calia (Temple URP) | |
| 2022 | Sean Britt (Temple URP) | |
| 2022 | Garret Quallet (Temple URP) | |
| 2021-2022 | Rebecca Zalkin (Temple URP) | |
| 2021 | Joseph Trachtman (Temple URP) | |
| 2020-2022 | Craig Fox | |
| 2020-2021 | Megan Ross | |
| 2019-2020 | Aidan Loza | |
| 2019 | Renee Johnson (Temple URP) | |
| 2019 | Ahmad Saad (Temple URP) | |
| 2018-2021 | Jacob Wells (Temple URP) | |
| 2018-2019 | Brian Davis (Temple URP) | |
| 2018 | Chau Nguyen (Presidential Scholar) | |
| 2018 | HeeWon (Bella) Yang | |
| 2018 | Joseph Grassi (Temple Science Scholar) | |
| 2015 | Hannah Pohlmann (summer exchange student) | |
| 2014-2015 | Louis Graup (Temple URP) | |
| 2014 | Joseph Buhler (Temple URP) | |
| 2013 | Samuel Lee (Temple URP) | |
| 2013 | Louis Graup (Temple Science Scholar) | |
| 2012 | Kathryn Lund (Temple URP) | |
| 2012 | Elisheva Stern (Temple URP) | |
| 2010 | Priyankkumar Patel (Temple URP) | |
| 2009 | Mallika Randeria (MIT UROP) | |
| 2009 | Sara Sheehan (MIT UROP) | |
| PhD Student Theses | ||
| 2024 |
Nour Khoudari:
From Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales: Traffic Waves and Sparse Control (next position: postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University) | |
| 2021 |
Abhijit Biswas:
Structure-Optimized and Order-Preserving Methods for Advection and Time Stepping (next position: researcher at Temple University; first position after Temple: postdoctoral researcher at KAUST) | |
| 2020 |
Najmeh Salehi:
Realistic Off-Ramp Coupling Conditions for Macroscopic Highway Network Models (next position: postdoctoral researcher at Penn State University) | |
| 2020 |
Joshua Finkelstein:
Accurate Langevin Integration Methods for Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics with Large Time Steps (next position: postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory) | |
| 2020 |
Rabie Ramadan:
Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Second Order Traffic Models (next position: postdoctoral researcher at Temple University; first position/job after Temple: Legal & General America) | |
| 2014 |
Dong Zhou:
High-Order Numerical Methods for Pressure Poisson Equation Reformulations of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations (next position: postdoctoral researcher at Temple University; first position after Temple: Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles) | |
| 2013 |
Shimao Fan:
Data-Fitted Generic Second Order Macroscopic Transportation Traffic Flow Models (next position: postdoctoral researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | |
| MS Student Research Theses | ||
| 2015 |
Julia Somers: Macroscopic Coupling Conditions with Partial Blocking for Highway Ramps (next position: Deloitte Consulting) | |
| Lectures Notes, Video Lectures, and Teaching Software | ||
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2020 Video lectures of the
Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Vehicles Tutorials at IPAM, UCLA
Basic Traffic Models and Traffic Waves, Part 1 (video of talk) Basic Traffic Models and Traffic Waves, Part 2 (video of talk) (presentation slides for both talks) | ||
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2015 Video lectures of the
Mathematical Approaches for Traffic Flow Management Tutorials at IPAM, UCLA
A mathematical introduction to traffic flow theory: Part I (video of talk) A mathematical introduction to traffic flow theory: Part II (video of talk) A mathematical introduction to traffic flow theory: Part III (video of talk) (presentation slides for all talks) | ||
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MIT
Open CourseWare site of my course 18.336 in Spring 2009,
a graduate level course on Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations.
→ Lecture notes for this course. | ||
| Matlab codes on the
Computational Science and Engineering webpage
to the book by Gilbert Strang.
Used by teachers and scientists at other universities are:
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