Lecturers

Christophe Geuzaine (Topic 1)

Christophe Geuzaine received his PhD degree in 2001 from the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of Liège in Belgium. After post-doctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and with the Belgian National Science Foundation, he became an assistant professor of Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University in 2005. In 2007 he came back to Belgium and joined the Engineering Faculty at the University of Liège. He is the founder and head of the Applied and Computational Electromagnetics group at the University of Liège, as well as the director of the Electromagnetics Compatibility laboratory.

Prof. Geuzaine's research encompasses modeling, analysis, algorithm development, and simulation for problems arising in various areas of engineering and science, with current applications in computational electromagnetics and biomedical problems. He has published more than 60 papers in international journals, and is the creator of two widely used software tools: the multi-physics solver GetDP and the finite element mesh generator Gmsh.

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Montefiore Institute, University of Liège,
Sart-Tilman, Bldg. B28, Parking P32 B-4000 Liège, Belgium
Tel: +32 4 366 37 30
Email: cgeuzaine@ulg.ac.be
URL: http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine

Tom Dhaene (Topic 2)

Tom Dhaene received the M.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. From 1989 to 1993, he was Research Assistant at Ghent University, in the Department of Information Technology (INTEC), where his research focused on different aspects of full-wave electromagnetic circuit modeling, transient simulation, and time-domain characterization of high-frequency and high-speed interconnections. In 1993, he joined the EDA company Alphabit (IMEC spin-off, later acquired by Hewlett-Packard, and now part of Agilent Technologies). He was one of the key developers of the world-leading planar EM simulator ADS Momentum. Since October 2000, he has been a Professor in the Computer Modeling and Simulation (COMS) research group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Since October 2007, he is a Full Professor in the Internet Based Communication Networks and Services (IBCN) research group of the Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Ghent University. He is affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Institute of Broadband Technology Flanders (IBBT).

His modeling and simulation EDA software (Electronic Design Automation) is successfully used by academic, government and business organizations worldwide, for study and design of high-speed electronics and broadband communication systems. As author or co-author, he has contributed to more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and abstracts in international conference proceedings, journals and books about computational science and engineering, numerical analysis, and computer science. He is the holder of 5 U.S. patents. His research interests include distributed scientific computing, signal integrity, machine learning and surrogate modeling.

Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University,
Complex Zuiderpoort Blok C0 bus 201, Gaston Crommenlaan 8?B-9050 Gent, Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)9 331 49 33
Email: tom.dhaene - @ - ugent.be
URL: http://www.sumo.intec.ugent.be/?q=tomd

Dirk Deschrijver (Topic 2)

Dirk Deschrijver received the Bachelor degree and Master degree in Computer Science in 2003, from the University of Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium. Since then, he worked as a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the same university, supported by a research project of the Fund for Scientific c Research Flanders. During the period from May-October 2005, he was a Marie Curie Fellow in the Scientific Computing group at the Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In October 2007, he obtained the PhD degree in Computer Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is currently working as an FWO post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Information Technology (INTEC) at the Faculty of Engineering at Ghent University. Simultaneously, he is working towards a second PhD degree, in Electrical Engineering. He is a member of the IBCN research group, which is one of the leading research groups within the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT). He is also an associated member of the Electromagnetics research group at Ghent University.

His research interests are mainly focused towards scientific computing with applications in Engineering (robust numerical techniques, fast system identification, and broadband parametric macromodeling). As author or co-author, he has contributed to more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and abstracts in international conference proceedings, journals and books. Some of these contributions are now included in major commercial EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software packages, and/or filled for patenting.

Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University
Complex Zuiderpoort Blok C0 bus 201, Gaston Crommenlaan 8?B-9050 Gent, Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)9 331 49 96
Email: dirk.deschrijver (@) intec.ugent.be
URL: http://www.sumo.intec.ugent.be/?q=dirkd

Slamowir Koziel (Topic 3)

Slawomir Koziel received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He also received the M.Sc. degrees in theoretical physics and in mathematics, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, as well as the PhD in mathematics in 2003, from the University of Gdansk, Poland. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavik University, Iceland.

His research interests include CAD and modeling of microwave circuits, simulation-driven design, surrogate-based optimization, space mapping, circuit theory, evolutionary computation and numerical analysis. In recent years, he has been working extensively on surrogate-based modeling and optimization techniques as well as computationally efficient simulation-driven design methods for microwave engineering and aerospace engineering. He has published several book chapters and more than 200 research papers. He is a founder and director of Engineering Optimization & Modeling Center at Reykjavik University.

Slawomir Koziel is a recipient of Fulbright Scholarship for the academic year 2003/2004. He has served on the Editorial Board of 3 international journals, program committee member as well as co- organizer of numerous special sessions and workshops at international conferences (recently, SIAM Conf. Opt. 2011, EngOpt 2010, ICCS 2010 and 2011, IMS 2011, ACES 2011). He has also been a guest co-editor of 4 special issues of international journals (including Optimization and Engineering, Int. J. RF and Microwave CAE, Int. J. Math. Modeling and Num. Opt), as well as a co-editor of two books ("Computational Optimization, Methods and Algorithms" and "Computational Optimization and Application in Engineering and Industry" both published by Springer, 2011)

Engineering Optimization & Modeling Center, School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavik University
Menntavegur 1, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland,
Tel: +354 5996376,
Email: koziel@ru.is

Maureen Clerc (Topic 4)

Maureen Clerc holds a research director position at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France. She graduated in 1993 from Ecole Polytechnique and obtained her PhD in 1999. She received the "Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches" from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in 2007. Her research encompasses signal and image processing, computer vision, and mathematical and computational aspects of electrophysiology. Her current application areas are mainly Brain Functional Imaging by electro- and magneto-encephalography, Functional Electrical Stimulation and Brain Computer Interfaces. Apart from academic research, she is also involved in teaching to graduate students, and software development, notably the OpenMEEG library for BEM-based low-frequency bioelectromagnetism.

Email: maureen.clerc@inria.fr
URL:http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Maureen.Clerc or http://www-sop.inria.fr/athena

Marián Slodicka (Topic 5)

Marián Slodicka gained all his education in Bratislava. After finishing the grammar school in 1976 he entered the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University. He graduated in mathematics in 1981. He was awarded the prize of Minister of Education of Slovak Federative Republic in 1981 because of his excellent study results. In 1988 he gained the Ph.D. degree (Prof. J. Kacur) in Mathematics at the same faculty. In 1999 he gained his habilitation at the University of Augsburg (Prof. R. Hoppe) in Germany, and he obtained the degree "Dr.rer.nat.habil" in mathematics. In 2001 he obtained the degree "Dozent" at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava. Since 2003 is he a professor at the Ghent University in Belgium.

Marián Slodicka is a well recognized expert in evolution differential equations. His field of interest ranges from mathematical modeling, going through the analysis of a problem, designing an efficient numerical scheme and finishing with scientific computing. He deals with direct and inverse problems covering reaction-diffusion equations, porous media flow, computations of electromagnetic fields, micro-magnetism. In these fields, together with collaborators, he has written 4 books and 90 original research papers published in the leading scientific journals and peer-reviewed proceedings. During his academic career he visited many universities and research institutes in various countries. From long stays one can mention the following ones: Banach center, Warsaw, Poland (3 months); Joint Institut for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia (2 and half years); UniBw Munich, Germany (4 years and 4 months). Marián Slodicka is frequently invited for talks at international conferences and institutions all over the world. His results have already been presented at more than 112 lectures. He was co-organizer of 9 conferences and minisymposia. He has been principal investigator of many national research grants in Belgium. Up to now, he has been supervisor of 7 PhD students, who successfully defended their theses.

Department of Mathematical Analysis, Ghent University,
Galglaan 2, Ghent, Belgium
Tel: +32 264 4959,
Email: marian.slodicka@ugent.be
URL: http://cage.ugent.be/~ms