Jose E. Roman

Affiliations

• Associate Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática (ETSINF), Departmento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación (DSIC).
• Researcher at the Institute for the Applications of Advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ITACA), in the Research Group of Grid and High Performance Computing (GRyCAP).

Research

Topics of Interest

• Numerical solution of large-scale sparse eigenvalue problems.
• Software engineering for large-scale scientific computing.
• General: numerical linear algebra, PDE's, high performance computing.

Research Projects

• SLEPc: the Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem Computations.

Selected Journal Articles

• Fast Eigenvalue Calculations in a Massively Parallel Plasma Turbulence Code (with M. Kammerer, F. Merz and F. Jenko), Parallel Comput., xx: xx-xx, 2009.
• A Robust and Efficient Parallel SVD Solver Based on Restarted Lanczos Bidiagonalization (with V. Hernandez and A. Tomas), Electron. Trans. Numer. Anal., 31: 68-85, 2008.
• Simulating Control Rod and Fuel Assembly Motion Using Moving Meshes (with D. Gilbert, Wm. J. Garland, and W.F.S. Poehlman), Ann. Nucl. Energy, 35(2): 291-303, 2008.
• Parallel Arnoldi Eigensolvers with Enhanced Scalability via Global Communications Rearrangement (with V. Hernandez and A. Tomas), Parallel Comput., 33(7-8): 521-540, 2007.
• SLEPc: A Scalable and Flexible Toolkit for the Solution of Eigenvalue Problems (with V. Hernandez and V. Vidal), ACM Trans. Math. Softw., 31(3): 351-362, 2005.

Selected Conference Contributions

• A Parallel Implementation of the Davidson Method for Generalized Eigenproblems (with E. Romero), PARCO 2009, Lyon (France), Sep 2009.
• A Parallel Implementation of the Trace Minimization Eigensolver (with E. Romero), VECPAR 2008, Toulouse (France), June 2008.
• Parallel Eigensolvers for a Discretized Radiative Transfer Problem (with P. Vasconcelos and O. Marques), VECPAR 2008, Toulouse (France), June 2008.
• A Parallel Krylov-Schur Implementation for Large Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Eigenproblems (with V. Hernandez and A. Tomas), ICIAM 07, Zurich (Switzerland), July 2007.

A longer list of my publications can be found at DBLP or CCSB.

Teaching

See my timetable for the current semester.

Undergraduate Courses

• Fall 2009: Numerical Algorithms
• Spring 2010: Numerical Computing

Postgraduate Courses

Master/PhD programme Parallel and Distributed Computing

• Fall 2009: Parallel Programming Technology
• Spring 2010: Data Management and Visualization in Scientific Computing

Biographical Sketch

Jose E. Roman received a degree in Computer Science from Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 1996. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UPV in 2003. He has been a lecturer at UPV since 2000 and faculty member since 2003.