Alumni

Wei Xi Boo, PhD Summer 2025

Thesis Title: Multiscale Methods for Maxwell's Equations for Mixtures of Dispersive and Non-Dispersive Dielectrics

Sebastián Naranjo Álvarez, PhD Winter 2021

Thesis Title: Virtual Element Methods for Magnetohydrodynamics on General Polygonal and Polyhedral Meshes

First Job :Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca in Italy.
Current Job :Computational Engineer (development of scientific computation software) SandBox Semiconductor, Feb 2022 - Present

Awards and Honors

1. OSU NRT Graduate Trainee in Risk and Uncertainty Quantification in the Marine Sciences . Fully funded NSF fellowship in AY 2017-2018.
2. Completed two summer internships at Los Alamos National Laboratory with advisor Vitaliy Gyrya in the Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics group, funded by the NSF NRT program on Oregon State campus and an INTERN supplement to Professor Bokil's NSF grant..

Publications:

1. S. Naranjo Alvarez, F. Dassi, L. Beirao Da Veiga, V. A. Bokil, V. Gyrya, G. Manzini, The virtual element method for a 2D incompressible MHD system , Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Volume 211, September 2023, Pages 301-328.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2023.03.029
2. S. Naranjo Álvarez, V. A. Bokil, V. Gyrya, G. Manzini, The virtual element method for the coupled system of magneto-hydrodynamics , Book Chapter, first Online: 08 May 2022 in SEMA SIMAI Springer Series book series (SEMA SIMAI,volume 31)
   Also, see the arxiv site.
3. S. Naranjo Alvarez, V. A. Bokil, V. Gyrya, and G. Manzini, The virtual element method for resistive magnetohydrodynamics,Volume 381, 1 August 2021, 113815, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME), March 2021. Also, see the arxiv site

Puttha Sakkaplangkul, PhD Spring 2017

Thesis Title: Multiscale Methods and Energy Stable Discretizations for Maxwell’s Equations in Linear and Nonlinear Materials

Current Job : Lecturer, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand.
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State University

Publications:

1. Puttha Sakkaplangkul and V. A. Bokil, Convergence Analysis of Yee-FDTD Schemes for 3D Maxwell's Equations in Linear Dispersive Media , Submitted, February 2021.
2. Puttha Sakkaplangkul, V. A. Bokil, and Camille Carvalho, A Fully Fourth Order Accurate Energy Stable Finite Difference Method for Maxwell’s Equations in Metamaterials, accepted, IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, 2019.
3. Yan Jiang, Puttha Sakkaplangkul, V. A. Bokil, Yingda Cheng and Fengyan Li, Dispersion Analysis of Finite Difference and Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes for Maxwell's Equations in Linear Lorentz Media Volume 394(1), Pages 100-135, Journal of Computational Physics, October 2019.
4. V. A. Bokil, Y. Cheng, Y. Jiang, F. Li and P. Sakkaplangkul, High Spatial Order Energy Stable FDTD Methods for Maxwell's Equations in Nonlinear Optical Media in One Dimension, J. Ssientific Computing 2018.
5. V. A. Bokil and P. Sakkaplangkul, Construction and Analysis of Weighted Sequential Splitting FDTD Methods for the 3D Maxwell's Equations , International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, 2018.

Duncan McGregor, PhD Spring 2016

(co-advised with Nathan Gibson)

Thesis Title: Compatible Discretizations for Maxwell's Equations with General Constitutive Laws

Current Job: Staff Member, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM

Publications:

1. V. A. Bokil, V. Gyrya and D. A. McGregor, A Dispersion Minimized Mimetic Method for Cold Plasma , Proceedings ECCOMAS 2016.
2. V. A. Bokil, N. L. Gibson, D. A. McGregor and C. R. Woodside, Toward Estimating Current Densities in Magnetohydrodynamic Generators , CCP 2014 Proceedings, Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), published by the IOP, to appear 2015.
3. V. A. Bokil , N. L. Gibson, V. Gyrya and D. A. McGregor, Dispersion Reducing Methods for Edge Discretizations of the Vector Wave Equation , To appear, J. Comp. Phys., 2015.

Carrie Manore, PhD Spring 2011

Thesis Title: Non-spatial and spatial models for multi-host pathogen spread in competing species: applications to barley yellow dwarf virus and rinderpest

Current Job: Staff Member, Information Systems and Modeling Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Past Job: NSF SEES Postdoctoral Fellow , Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Computational Science, Tulane University.

Read about Carrie's recent research on Covid-19.

Awards:

• Oregon State University Winner of the 2012 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award
• 2012 Lee Segel Prize for Best Student Paper

Publications:

1. S. M. Moore, C. A. Manore, V. A. Bokil, E. T. Borer and P. R. Hosseini, Spatiotemporal Model of Barley and Cereal Yellow Dwarf Virus Transmission Dynamics with Seasonality and Plant Competition, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 73(11), 2707-2730, 2011. Winner of the 2012 Lee Segel Prize.
2. V. A. Bokil and C. A. Manore, Linking Population Dynamics and Disease Models for Multi-Host Pathogen Systems: Implications for Pathogen and Species Invasion, To appear: Special Issue on Modelling in Infectious Diseases, J. Biol. Sys., 2014.
3. Frank M. Hilker, Linda J. S. Allen, Vrushali A. Bokil, Cheryl J. Briggs, Zhilan Feng, Karen A. Garrett, Louis J. Gross, Frederic M. Hamelin, Michael J. Jeger, Carrie A. Manore, Alison G. Power, Margaret G. Redinbaugh, Megan A. Rua, and Nik J. Cunniffe. Modelling virus coinfection to inform management of maize lethal necrosis in Kenya. published online, Phytopatholoy, 2017.
4. Frederic Hamelin, Linda J. S. Allen, Vrushali A. Bokil, Louis J. Gross, Frank Hilker, Michael J. Jeger, Carrie A. Manore , Alison G. Power, Megan A. Rua, and Nik J. Cunniffe. Coinfections by non-interacting pathogens are not independent and require new tests of interaction, accepted, PLOS Biol., 2019.