Alejandro N. Diaz

S. Scott Collis Fellowship in Data Science

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S. Scott Collis Fellowship in Data Science

andiaz@sandia.gov

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Biography

Alejandro is a S. Scott Collis Fellow in Data Science in the Quantitative Modeling & Software Engineering department at Sandia National Labs. His work focuses on nonlinear model reduction of multi-component systems, and he is broadly interested in developing modeling and simulation techniques at the intersection of data science/machine learning and classical numerical methods. He received his MA and PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University and a BS in Mathematics from University of Maryland, College Park. While a PhD student, he was a DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow and completed a research internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a data science internship at Microsoft.

Education

  • PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 2024
  • MA in Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 2022
  • BS in Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2019

Research interests

  • Reduced-order modeling
    • Nonlinear approaches, i.e. autoencoder-based nonlinear-manifold ROMs and quadratic-manifold ROMs
    • Kernel methods for model reduction
  • Coupling methods for multi-physics/multi-component systems
  • Scientific machine learning