Alfredo Parra Hinojosa, M.Sc.

Address:

TU München

Institut für Informatik

Boltzmannstr. 3

85748 Garching b. München

Office:

MI 02.05.059

Email:

Phone:

(089) 289 18 629

Fax:

(089) 289 18 607

Education

• 2013- : Research associate / PhD candidate, Department of Informatics, TU München
• 2011-2013: M.Sc. Computational Science and Engineering (Official, FB), TU München
• 2009-2010: Exchange student, École Polytechnique, France
• 2006-2010: B.Sc. Engineering Physics, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico

Research Interests

• Fault tolerance in large HPC systems
• Sparse grids (combination technique)
• Low-rank tensor representations (Matrix Product States, Tensor Trains)
• Fractional calculus and fractional differential equations
• Random ordinary differential equations

Publications

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Talks

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Awards

• ISC 2016 PhD Forum Award
• Preis für beste Lehre 2016

Student Projects

I currently have open topics in the field of parallel solvers for high-dimensional PDEs (efficient communication schemes, detection of silent data corruption in PDE solvers, fault tolerance via MPI redundancy, error propagation in plasma simulations, testing the Sandia framework "GREMLIN", parallel implementation of iterative solvers). The topics vary in mathematical/programming complexity and can be adjusted to your skills. You can see a list of possible topics here.

Past:

• Paul Sarbu: Fault-tolerant communication schemes for the Sparse Grid Combination Technique (Research Assistant)
• Ionut-Gabriel Farcas: Efficient implementation of the Generalized Coefficient Problem using GLPK for the Fault Tolerant Combination Technique (Research Assistant)

Projects

• EXAHD - An Exa-Scalable Two-Level Sparse Grid Approach for Higher-Dimensional Problems in Plasma Physics and Beyond

Current activities

• Student advisor and program coordinator of the CSE Master's program
• Assistant program coordinator of the elite track BGCE
• Tutor of Einführung in die wissenschaftliche Programmierung, WS 2016/17
• Supervisor of the Next Generation High Performance Computing Seminar, WS 2016/17

Past activities

• Supervisor of the Uncertainty Quantification Seminar, SS 2016
• Supervisor of the Scientists and Ethics Seminar, SS 2016
• Supervisor of the Uncertainty Quantification Seminar, SS 2015
• Tutor of Einführung in die wissenschaftliche Programmierung, WS 2014/15
• Supervisor of the Uncertainty Quantification Seminar, SS 2014
• Tutor of Einführung in die wissenschaftliche Programmierung, WS 2013/14