Alvaro is a founding class member of KAUST. He obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Math in January 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Raul Tempone. During his Ph.D., Alvaro coauthored five research articles in refereed journals related to numerical methods and algorithms for pure jump Markovian processes. In 2013, Alvaro was the recipient of the KAUST Academic Excellence Award.

Guests of the January 2016 Uncertainty Quantification Applications Workshop (UQAW) had to check whether they were truly at a science and technology university in Saudi Arabia, or had perhaps taken a wrong turn en route to the poster session and reception in the KAUST University Library on the evening of 6 January.

Alessandro Iania successfully defended his Master thesis "Basket option pricing for processes with jumps using sparse grids and Fourier transforms" at Politecnico of Torino. He wrote his thesis at KAUST in the period May - Dec 2015 oriented by Raul Tempone, Fabian Crocce, and Juho Häppölä (Stochastic Numerics group).
During Spring and Summer 2014, Dr. Blanca Ayuso de Dios was a visiting researcher and consultant within the Stochastic Numerics group lead by Prof. Tempone. During that time she collaborated with several group members and others from the KAUST SRI UQ​.