Faculty Research Areas

 A large number of research opportunities is available through a body of experienced AUB faculty members each of them well involved in his/her own area.

1. FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (FAS)

Fatima Abu Salem, Computer Science Department
Area of Research: Symbolic Computing
Current Work:
- Computer Algebra: polynomial factorization over finite fields, efficient software for cache friendly and parallel 
  algorithms for multi-cores.
- Parallel I/O models.
 

Mazen Al-Ghoul, Chemistry Department
Area of Research: Computational Chemistry
Current Work:
- Numerical solution of partial differential equations using spectral, finite element and finite volume methods;   
  parallel methods.
- Stochastic differential equations.

 

Khalil Bitar , Physics Department
Area of Research: Computational Physics
Current Work:
Quantum Field theory simulations on a Lattice

Kamal Khuri-Makdisi, Mathematics Department
Area of Research: Number theory
Current Work:
- Algorithmic representation of a curve and its Jacobian
- Equations for modular and Shimura curves
 

Leonid Klushin, Physics Department
Area of Research: Computational Physics
Current Work:
- Statistical mechanics of soft matter
- Phase transitions in macromolecules
 

Nabil Nassif, Mathematics Department
Area of Research: Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
Current Work:
- Parallelizing the time variable in evolutionary problems.
- Analysis and Computation of Reaction Diffusion problems with singular blowing-up solutions.
- Analysis and Computation of age-structured Epidemiological problems.

Simon Neaime, Economics Department
Area of Research: Computational Economics
Current Work:
- Portfolio Management and Derivative Securities.
- Time Series Econometric Analysis
- Financial Economics
- Empirical Finance
 

George Turkiyyah, Computer Science Department
Area of Research: Computational Science
Current Work:
- Computer Graphics and Animation
- Finite Element Analysis
- High Performance Computing

 

2. FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE (FEA)

Marwan Darwish, Mechanical Engineering Department
Area of Research: Computational Fluid Dynamics
Current Work:
- HPC on Clusters Architectures
- Software for Computational Mechanics