Resume
Personal
Information
Name: Manuel Quezada de Luna
Date of birth: March 24th, 1985
Place of birth: México, D.F.
Contact
Information
1501 Harvey Road, Apt 433
College Station, TX 77840
Mobile: +1(979) 739-6365
e-mail: mquezada@math.tamu.edu
manuel.quezada.dl@gmail.com
http://www.math.tamu.edu/˜ mquezada
Objective
Merge different areas of applied mathematics and scientific computing with engineering for the
solution of specific problems in science and engineering.
Education
Texas A&M University, Texas, U.S.A.
Ph.D., Mathematics, August 2011-Spring 2016 (flexible expected graduation date).
• Interdisciplinary track on fluid mechanics.
• Thesis topic: High-order Maximum Principle Preserving (MPP) techniques for solving
the first order conservation law with applications on multiphase flow.
• Advisor: Jean-Luc Guermond.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
M.Sc., Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, May 2011.
• Thesis topic: Nonlinear Wave Propagation and Solitary Wave Formation in Two-Dimensional
Heterogeneous Media
• Thesis advisor: David I. Ketcheson
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Laguna, ITESM
CL, Torreón Coahuila, México.
B.Sc., Mechatronics Engineering, December 2008.
• Specialization: Automated control.
Languages
Spanish: Native speaker.
Skills
Projects
Jobs
English: Fluent.
• As engineer: many programming languages and engineering software; knowledge in Unix based
systems, microcontrollers, semiconductor physics and fabrication, analog, digital and power
electronics and others.
• As an applied mathematician: general knowledge in linear algebra, numerical linear algebra,
numerical methods, numerical optimization and others; knowledge and practice in numerical
and time discretizations, perturbation methods, asymptotic expansions, homogenization and
others.
As an engineering student:
• Several engineering projects including areas of digital, analog and power electronics, digital
control, programming and others.
As a master student:
• Review report on self-focusing effect.
• Self study and implementation of the finite element method for parabolic PDEs.
As a PhD student:
• Direct Numerical Simulation of fluid flow around a blade at high Reynolds numbers.
• Multiphase simulations conducting novel research.
• Summer internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Summer 2015.
• Research internship at the Numerical Mathematics Group at KAUST, Summer 2013, Winter
2013 and Summer 2014 under supervision of Associate Prof. David I. Ketcheson.
• Research Assistant under supervision of Prof. Jean-Luc Guermond, Spring and Fall 2014,
Spring and Fall 2015 and Spring 2016.
• Teacher Assistant for Math 151 (differential calculus), Math 152 (integral calculus) and Math
442 (Math modeling) at Texas A&M University, Fall 2011-Fall 2013.
• Teacher Assistant for Numerical Analysis of PDEs at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, Fall 2010.
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• Research internship at Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM), at
the Mathematical Institute of Oxford, Summer 2010.
Awards
Journal
Publications
Bachelor in Mexico:
• Graduated with Honors (97%) as a Mechatronics and Systems Engineer, Dec. 2008.
• First Place in the 3rd Engineering Projects Fair in Automation, ITESM CL, April 2008.
Master in Saudi Arabia:
• KAUST Discovery Scholarship, April 2008.
• KAUST Graduate Fellowship, April 2009.
• KAUST Provost Award, November 2009.
• KAUST Academic Excellence Award, November 2010.
PhD in Texas A&M University:
• 2013 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE13.
• 2015 Summer Poster Symposium Award, LLNL Summer 2015.
M. Quezada, B. Durickovic, A. Goriely, Non-linear waves in heterogeneous elastic rods via homogenization,
Int. J. Non-Linear Mech, 2011. doi:10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2011.05.005
David Ketcheson, Kyle Mandli, Aron Ahmadia, Amal Alghamdi, Manuel Quezada de Luna,
Matteo Parsani, Matthew G. Knepley, Matthew Emmett, Pyclaw: Accessible, extensible, scalable
tools for wave propagation problems. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2012. doi:10.1137/110856976
Manuel Quezada de Luna and David I. Ketcheson. Numerical simulation of cylindrical solitary
waves in periodic media. Journal of Scientific Computing, 2013. doi:10.1007/s10915-013-9747-3
Manuel Quezada de Luna and David I. Ketcheson. Two-dimensional wave propagation in layered
periodic media. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2014. doi:10.1137/130937962
David I. Ketcheson and Manuel Quezada de Luna. Diffractons: Solitary Waves Created by
Diffraction in Periodic Media. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. SIAM Interdisciplinary
Journal, 2014. doi:10.1137/130946526
Papers in
Preparation
Jean-Luc Guermond, Manuel Quezada de Luna, Travis Thomson. A conservative one-stage level
set method for two-phase incompressible flows. Submitted at the Journal of Computational
Physics.
R. Anderson, V. Dobrev, Tz. Kolev, D. Kuzmin, M. Quezada de Luna, R. Rieben and V.
Tomov. High-Order Local Maximum Principle Preserving (MPP) Discontinuous Galerkin Finite
Element Method for the Transport Equation. Submitted at the Journal of Computational
Physics.
Other
publications
Manuel Quezada de Luna, Nonlinear Wave Propagation and Solitary Wave Formation in TwoDimensional Heterogeneous Media, master thesis at KAUST, May 2011.
http://numerics.kaust.edu.sa/papers/quezada-thesis/quezada-thesis.html
Presentations Manuel Quezada de Luna, A conservative maximum principle preserving one-stage level set
method for two-phase incompressible flows. FEM Rodeo 2016, Texas A&M.
Manuel Quezada de Luna, Non-Oscillatory FCT for High-Order Finite Elements. LLNL 2015.
Manuel Quezada de Luna, Maximum Principle Preserving (MPP) artificial compression for the
level set method. FEM Rodeo 2015, SMU.
Manuel Quezada de Luna, Two phase flow solver via Continuous Galerkin. FEM Rodeo 2014,
ICES, UT Austin.
Manuel Quezada de Luna, Numerical Simulation of Cylindrical Solitary Waves in Periodic Media,
CSE13, Boston, U.S., lecture conference.
Manuel Quezada de Luna, Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media, ICIAM 2011, Vancouver,
Canada, lecture conference.
Manuel Quezada de Luna, 2D Solitary Waves in Heterogeneous Media, SAM Hyp 2011, Zurich,
Switzerland, poster presentation.
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