Matteo Parsani

November 2025

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  KAUST master’s student Osama Dabbousi awarded Rhodes Scholarship

  1 min read · Tue, Nov 18 2025

  News Clip Awards News

  HPC GPU Algorithms numerical methods

  KAUST master’s student Osama Dabbousi earns the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, reflecting KAUST’s growing role in developing national research talent.

April 2025

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  KAUST and McLaren Racing: A winning formula for innovation and impact

  1 min read · Mon, Apr 21 2025

  News Clip News

  KAUST and McLaren Racing partner to push boundaries in F1 innovation—from smart sensors to advanced aerodynamic research.

September 2024

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  Octopus suckers inspire sticky medical patch

  1 min read · Wed, Sep 11 2024

  News Clip News

  Hybrid 3D printing helps to create adhesive textures for a highly adhesive and reusable biopatch that monitors health.

February 2024

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  Matteo Parsani begins cycling journey across Saudi

  3 min read · Mon, Feb 5 2024

  News

  Six years ago, Dr. Matteo Parsani, associate professor of applied mathematics and computational science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), experienced a life-changing incident that resulted in the loss of movement and sensation in the lower part of his bod
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  Matteo Parsani finishes hand-cycle from east to west coast

  2 min read · Thu, Feb 1 2024

  News

  Traversing from East to West across 10 cities throughout the Kingdom in 30 days, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Matteo Parsani concludes his journey “Athar: East to West.” Covering a long route that included Dammam, Riyadh, Qassim (Buraydah), Hail, AlUla, Red Sea Global, AlMadinah, Makkah, Jeddah, and concluding at KAUST, Parsani hand-cycled a distance of over 3,000 kilometers, averaging 150 kilometers per day. Six years ago, Parsani faced a life-altering incident that left him with the loss of movement and

September 2023

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  Congratulations to Daniela for successfully defending her PhD thesis

  1 min read · Mon, Sep 11 2023

  Spotlight News

  Left: Daniela and three (out of four) committee members after her PhD defense, with Prof. Jorge Mateu (left), Daniela (center left), Prof. Raphaël Huser (center right), and Prof. Hernando Ombao (right). Prof. Matteo Parsani (not on the picture) was the last committee member. Right: picture taken after the defense, with Daniela (center) and Prof. Raphael Huser (in right corner holding his three kids).

August 2021

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  A supercomputer, billions of data points—and a plan for more efficient planes

  1 min read · Mon, Aug 2 2021

  News

  Matteo Parsani and his team at KAUST are modeling how air particles move around objects—providing vital info for engineers designing lighter jets.

June 2021

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  Inverse CFD design using a Deep Network Surrogate (CFD-Net)

  1 min read · Fri, Jun 4 2021

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  Problem we are facing: Because of the massive computational burden of typical inverse CFD design process, searching a wide variety of input geometry shape to optimize a payoff function (e.g. drag) is infeasible. How we aim to tackle it: To reduce the search space for new optimized shapes, we leverage the universal approximation property of deep neural networks to estimate a differentiable surrogate to the CFD forward simulation: CFD-Net. McLaren and Boeing have already expressed their interest to work with us on this line of research. Investigator: Matteo Parsani Bernard Ghanem

February 2021

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  ECRC contributions to SIAM CSE21

  4 min read · Sat, Feb 27 2021

  News

  research conference HPC computational science and engineering

  ECRC @ SIAM CSE21! Follow us @KAUST_ECRC As in previous SIAM conferences on Parallel Processing (PP) and Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), ECRC members and their collaborators will have a strong presence at SIAM CSE21, nominally in Fort Worth, Texas, but held virtually due to the pandemic. ************************************************** SIAM CSE21 will run virtually with live sessions. ************************************************** Registration to SIAM CSE is required to gain access to the online platform and attend live sessions. Once registered, please use your personal

September 2020

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  Quieter wind beneath the wings

  1 min read · Tue, Sep 22 2020

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  extreme computing Acoustics applied mathematics computational science

  The ability to efficiently simulate the noise generated by wings and propellers promises to accelerate the development of quieter aircraft and turbines.

April 2020

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  12 April 2020 International Day of Human Space Flight

  3 min read · Sun, Apr 12 2020

  News

  aerodynamics aerospace software engineering

  Rocket Scientists @KAUST Which is your main ongoing RESEARCH in the aerospace and space flight sectors? I study high pressure flames and high speed combustion. Both are simplified versions of what’s happening in rocket engines and other propulsion systems. Prof. Deanna Lacoste I work in high pressure combustion, just what is needed in a rocket engine or other propulsion device. Prof. William Roberts Two keywords here: "turbulence" and "computational aerodynamics". In my group we conduct research in simulating turbulent flows over airfoils, wings and other aerodynamic shapes to better

June 2019

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  Renzo Caballero succesfully defended his MS Thesis

  1 min read · Fri, Jun 21 2019

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  Uruguay is a pioneer in the use of renewable sources of energy and can usually satisfy its total demand from renewable sources. Control and optimization of the system are complicated by half of the installed power - wind and solar sources - being non-controllable with high uncertainty and variability. In this work, we present a novel optimization technique for efficient use of the production facilities.

May 2019

• Better racing car design through an industry partnership

  1 min read · Sun, May 19 2019

  News

  applied mathematics computational science fluid dynamics aerodynamics

  The Formula 1 race track is the ultimate testbed for a KAUST researcher's latest work.

March 2019

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  A race against time

  2 min read · Thu, Mar 7 2019

  News Spotlight

  Formula 1 algorithm aerodynamics

  The theme of the University's 2019 Winter Enrichment Program (WEP) was "time." It represented an opportune moment for KAUST to welcome members of the McLaren Group to campus to discuss the recently signed extreme performance research partnership between KAUST and McLaren.

April 2017

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  KAUST Research Conference: Predictive Complex Computational Fluid Dynamics 2017

  2 min read · Mon, Apr 3 2017

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  computational fluid dynamics multi-scale complex flow simulations

  KAUST will host the 2017 Research Conference "Predictive Complex Computational Fluid Dynamics " on May 22-24, 2017. The Research Conference aims to gather international top scientists of all ages from academia and industry and will focus on cutting-edge research in the field of algorithmic development for CFD and multi-scale complex flow simulations. Although CFD is arguably the oldest area of computational science, it is a very challenging and active one, due to to the fact that worldwide research centers, in the private and public sector, are still actively working on the development and application of CFD algorithms to supplement experiment and to interpolate between experimental scenarios. CFD is currently being applied to scenarios where physical experiments are not feasible due to prohibitive costs, and ethical concerns, or where reproducibility is impossible to achieve.