People

Jesse Chan

Education and Other Appointments:

Associate Professor (2025-present), Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences and the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, UT Austin.
Associate Professor (2024-2025), Assistant Professor (2016-2024), Dept. of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research (CMOR), formerly the Dept. of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAAM).
Postdoctoral Researcher (2015-2016): Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
Pfieffer Postdoctoral Instructor (2013-2015): CAAM Dept, Rice University
PhD (2013): Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSEM), UT Austin
BA (2008): Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University

Bio: Jesse Chan is an associate professor at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences and in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at UT Austin. He received his PhD in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013 working on high order adaptive finite element methods for steady compressible fluid flows. After postdoc positions at Rice University (2013-2015) and Virginia Tech (2015-2016), he joined Rice as a faculty member in the Department of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research (previously Computational and Applied Mathematics) in 2016. In 2025, he moved back to UT Austin. His research focuses on the accurate and efficient numerical solution of time-dependent hyperbolic partial differential equations, in particular the construction and analysis of provably stable high order methods for fluid dynamics.

Graduate students and postdocs

Raven Shane Johnson

Raven received her MA from Claremont Graduate University in 2021. Raven has loved teaching and math for as long as she can remember and plans to become a faculty who advocates for underrepresented peoples in STEM. In her spare time, Raven enjoys baking, analyzing movies, and spoken word poetry.

Ray Qu

I am a PhD student specializing in reduced order models. I received BS degrees in Math and Statistics from UNC Chapel Hill. My experience also includes an internship at Los Alamos National Labs, where I applied model reduction techniques to uncertain quantification.

Raymond Park

I am interested in HPC and entropy stable DG methods. I received my BS in Chem. Eng. and Math from UT Austin, where I worked on compression algorithms, information theory, and UQ. In my free time, I play the cello and piano!

Samuel Van Fleet

I am a postdoctoral associate interested in numerical methods for PDEs and kinetic equations. Most recently, I was a Pearson Fellow and instructor in the Dept of Applied Mathematics at UW. I received my PhD from Iowa State in 2022 on DG methods for conservation laws.

Former members

Brian Christner: Spring 2024-Fall 2025. Optimization-based FCT-like limiting and entropy correction artificial viscosity.
Samuel Kwan: Fall 2022-Fall 2024. Meshfree simulations of nonlinear conservation laws.
Vincent Wang: Summer 2024-Fall 2024. Efficient Julia implementations of high order Bernstein-Bezier DG methods.
Daniel Stulski: Fall 2023. shock capturing mechanisms in Trixi.jl
Mark Lopatofsky: (Summer 2023-Fall 2023): simulations of rocket designs using Trixi.jl. First position after: Intuitive Machines.
Krissh Chawla: Summer 2023-Spring 2024, High School Student. Implementation of entropy stable DG methods for the quasi-1D shallow water and Euler equations in Trixi.jl. First position after: Stanford University.
Christina Taylor: 2019-2024, PhD student. High order entropy stable cut-cell methods. First position after graduation: O'Donnell Postdoc at UT Austin Oden Institute (with Clint Dawson), joining the Boise State Dept. of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering in Spring 2026.
Yimin Lin: 2019-2023, PhD student. High order entropy stable schemes for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. First position after graduation: Aurora
Prani Nalluri (Spring 2021-Spring 2023). First position after: PhD Student in Applied Mathematics at Columbia.
Ruofeng (Charlie) Liu (Fall 2020-Spring 2021). First position after: graduate student at MIT
Mario J. Bencomo: 2019-2022. First position after: assistant professor at UC Fresno.
Philip Wu: 2019-2022, PhD student. High order entropy stable schemes for the shallow water equations. First position after graduation: Matroid.
Kaihang Guo: 2017-2021, PhD student. Stable and efficient high order discontinuous Galerkin methods for wave propagation. First position after graduation: CGG Veritas.
Kyle Busse: 2019-2021, MA candidate.
Khemraj Shukla: Oklaholma State University, visiting PhD student. High order discontinuous Galerkin methods for poroelastic wave propagation (with M. V de Hoop).
Quan Le (Summer 2020-Fall 2020).
Jacob Engel: Summer 2019, Rice undergraduate (CAAM). Stable finite volume schemes on networks.
Nigel Tan: 2018-2019, MA student. Efficient implementation of high order entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin methods.
Matt Schwartz: Summer 2018, Rice undergraduate (Physics). Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the shallow water equations.
Joey Munar: Summer 2017, Rice undergraduate (CAAM). Fekete points for B-splines.
Eva (Chen) Chen: Spring 2017, Rice undergraduate (CAAM). Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) using finite difference methods.

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