Alexandre Caboussat

Curriculum Vitae

Complete CV (March 2011) under pdf format can be found [here] .

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Previous Employment

• Haute Ecole de Gestion (HES), Genève (Lecturer, Sep 2010 - present)
• Ycoor systems SA (Software engineer, Mar 2010 - present)
• University of Houston (Adjunct Professor, Sep 2010 - present)


• EPFL (Scientific Collaborator, Sep 2010 - Aug 2011)
• University of Houston (Assistant Professor Tenure-Track Sep 2005 - Aug 2010)
• University of Houston (Postdoctoral fellow Mar 2004 - Feb 2005)
• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Research Assistant, Jan 2001 - Feb 2004)

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Research Interests

• Numerical Analysis and scientific computing.
• Numerical optimization and variational problems.
• Computational fluid dynamics and free surface flows.
• Industrial applications.
• Air quality modeling and computational chemistry.

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Education

• Jan 2001 - Dec 2003 : Ph.D. es Sciences. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Ph. D. thesis: Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Free Surface Flows. (Ph.D. advisor: Prof. J. Rappaz).
• Sep 1999 - Sep 2000 : Master degree in mathematical engineering. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Ecole Polytechnique de Paris.
• Sep 1995 - Sep 2000 : Master and bachelor degrees in applied mathematics. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne M. S. thesis: Numerical resolution of the Navier-Stokes equations with solidification by using C++ library Diffpack for application in continuous casting.

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Book in preparation

• A. Caboussat, R. Glowinski. Numerical Methods for Non-Smooth Variational Problems: Constrained Optimization and Generalized Eigenvalues, To be published in Springer Series in Scientific Computing, Springer-Verlag.

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Publications

View publications [here] .

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Ph.D. Students

• V. Pons (University of Houston). Numerical Methods for Non-Smooth Problems from Calculus of Variations: Applications. (co-advisor: R. Glowinski). PhD defended in December 2008.
• C. Landry (EPFL). Numerical Analysis of Optimization-Constrained Differential Equations: Applications to Atmospheric Chemistry. (co-advisor: J. Rappaz). PhD defended in March 2009.

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Awards

• Swiss NSF, Postdoctoral Fellowship. Mar 2004 - Feb 2005.
• Best PhD Thesis Award of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2003.
• Finalist for the European ECCOMAS award for the Best PhD Thesis in computational mathematics, 2003.

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Research Grants

• Rio Tinto Alcan Research Project. Jan 2011 - Dec 2011.
• Rio Tinto Alcan Research Project. Sept 2010 - Dec 2010.
• NSF DMS-computational mathematics, 0913982. Collaborative Research: Numerical Methods for Fully or Implicitly Nonlinear Elliptic Equations (with R. Glowinski and D. C. Sorensen), Sep 2009 - Aug 2011.
• University of Houston New Faculty Internal Grants. Primal-Dual Optimization Methods for the Minimization of the Gibbs Free Energy in Atmospheric Aerosol Particles (single PI), Jan 2007 - Sep 2007.
• EPA Star Grant. Fundamental Modeling of the Physical State of Atmospheric Particles and Application to 3D Air Quality Models (PI J.W. He), May 2005 - Apr 2007).
• Swiss NSF, Postdoctoral Fellowship. Mar 2004 - Feb 2005.

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