Modeling Human Migration
Bios:
Diana Suleimenova is a Research Fellow in Multiscale Migration Prediction for the Horizon 2020 Verified Exascale Computing for Multiscale Applications (VECMA) project. Her research concentrates on migration modelling and verification, validation and uncertainty quantification of multiscale applications deployed on emerging exascale platforms. She has a PhD in Computer Science focusing on quantitative data analysis of forced displacement and the development of an automated agent-based modelling technique to predict the distribution of incoming refugees across neighbouring camps.
Derek Groen is a Lecturer in Simulation and Modelling at Brunel University. He is also an Emeritus Fellow for the EPSRC-funded 2020 Science Network, a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Centre for Computational Science at University College London. He completed an MSc in Grid Computing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 2006, and a PhD in Computational Astrophysics both at the UvA and Leiden University in November 2010. After his PhD he worked as a post-doctoral researcher on EU projects about distributed multiscale computing (MAPPER) and high-performance computing towards the Exascale (CRESTA). He received a 1-year position as a Fellow of 2020 Science in January 2015, and funded himself for two months through an EPSRC eCSE to work on new approaches for domain decomposition. He joined Brunel University in September 2015 to become a Lecturer and He currently collaborates in the EU ComPat project about multiscale computing towards the Exascale.
He has published >20 peer-reviewed journal papers in venues such as IEEE Computer, IEEE CiSE, Journal of Computational Science, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A., Physics Review E., the Astrophysical Journal and eLife. In addition, he was second author of the first ever feature article in Advanced Materials, which was on multiscale modelling of clay-polymer nanocomposites and received news coverage from the Daily Telegraph and the BBC. He currently runs Science Hackathons to efficiently establish new interdisciplinary collaborations.