Ali Samii

Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

I am technical team lead in ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. Before joining URC, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Hydraulics Group and Applied Mathematics Group in the Institute for Computational Sciences and Engineering in The University of Texas at Austin.

I did my PhD in the the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics in UT Austin from 2013-17. Blessed with the greatest superviser Prof. Clint Dawson. My main research was on the application of discontinuous Galerkin method in different problems in fluid mechanics, and coastal ocean modeling. I devised a Hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for KdV equation. Also applied an explicit HDG to the Nonlinear Shallow Water Equation (NSWE), and irrotational Serre-Green-Naghdi equation.

I also had the privillage to work with an awesome mathematician Prof. Irene Gamba on numerical modeling of the coupled drift-diffusion equations in Photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells.