Francesco Ballarin
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics and Physics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Research interests
Numerical analysis
Reduced order modelling
Computational fluid dynamics
Open-source software development
Contact
Highlights
Lead developer of RBniCS - reduced order modelling in FEniCS, 2015-ongoing.
Lead developer of multiphenics/multiphenicsx - easy prototyping of multiphysics problems in FEniCS/FEniCSx, 2016-ongoing.
Lead developer of FEMlium - interactive visualization of finite element simulations on geographic maps with folium, 2021-ongoing.
Lead developer of FEM on Colab/FEM on Kaggle, 2021-ongoing.
Lead developer of viskex - interactive visualization for firedrake and FEniCSx, 2023-ongoing.
Jaemin Kim, Ida Ang, Francesco Ballarin, Chung-Yuen Hui, and Nikolaos Bouklas. A finite element implementation of finite deformation surface and bulk poroelasticity. Submitted, 2023. arXiv:2305.08805.
Fabian Key, Max von Danwitz, Francesco Ballarin, and Gianluigi Rozza. Model order reduction for deforming domain problems in a time-continuous space-time setting. Submitted, 2023. arXiv:2303.16662.
Julien Genovese, Francesco Ballarin, Gianluigi Rozza, and Claudio Canuto. Weighted reduced order methods for uncertainty quantification in computational fluid dynamics. Submitted, 2023. arXiv:2303.14432.
Teaching assistant for course on “Elements of numerical analysis”. Master degree in Mathematics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy (Spring 2023).
Teaching assistant for course on “Numerical analysis”. Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy (Fall 2022 + Spring 2023).
Lecturer for course on “Stochastic Processes and Optimization for Machine Learning”. Master degree in Data analytics for business, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy (Fall 2022).
Co-advisor in the bachelor thesis of Francesco Pasqualini, “Automatic differentiation for machine learning models”. Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy (Apr. 2023).
Advisor in the master thesis of Davide Alberto Lupis, “Credit card fraud detection through isolation forest”. Master degree in Data Analytics for Business, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy (Apr. 2023).
Co-advisor in the bachelor thesis of Lorenzo Ronchi, “Algorithms for arbitrary precision floating-point arithmetic”. Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy (Feb. 2023).
Organizing committee, FEniCS 2023, Pula (Cagliari), Italy (Jun. 2023, 14-16).
Minisymposium organizer, Math 2 Product 2023, Taormina, Italy (May 2023, 30 - Jun. 2023, 1).
Minisymposium organizer, SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Annual Meeting, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States (Mar. 2023, 25-26).
Invited seminar, Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States (Feb. 2023, 21).
Member of “Metodi numerici per lo studio di strutture geometriche parametriche complesse”, INdAM GNCS 2023, 2023.
Member and unit leader of “Accurate ROMs for Industrial Applications”, MSCA-RISE-2019, 2022-2024.
Principal investigator of “Reduced order modelling for numerical simulation of partial differential equations”, D.1 project by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2022-2024.
Member of “Metodi di riduzione computazionale per le scienze applicate: focus su sistemi complessi”, INdAM GNCS 2022, 2022.