Amina BENACEUR
		Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139-4307, Unites States of America. e-mail: amina.benaceur@enpc.fr benaceur@mit.edu

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Current position

• (04/2019 - ...) - Research associate in applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • In collaboration with Anthony T. Patera.
  • Parametrized model order reduction for engineered coastal and hydraulic systems.

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Former position

• (01/2016 - 01/2019) - PhD student in applied mathematics at CERMICS.
  • Directed by Alexandre Ern.
  • PhD program supported by EDF R&D .
  • Defended on December, 21st, 2018 [Manuscript, Defense slides].

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Research interests

• Reduced order modeling for variational equalities:
  • Nonlinear heat transfer problems.
  • Proper orthogonal decomposition.
  • Reduced basis methods.
  • Greedy algorithms.

• Reduced order modeling for variational inequalities:
  • Contact mechanics.
  • Nonlinear constraints.
  • Reduced basis methods.

• Data assimilation:
  • Parametrized-Background Data-Weak approach.

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Publications

• AB, V. Ehrlacher, A. Ern and S. Meunier, A progressive reduced basis/empirical interpolation method for nonlinear parabolic problems, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 40(5), A2930--A2955 (2018) [pdf , copyright SIAM]

• AB, A. Ern and V. Ehrlacher. A reduced basis method for parametrized variational inequalities applied to contact mechanics [pdf]

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Conference talks

• Reduced order modeling for nonlinear heat transfer:
  • Workshop Industry & Mathematics (Paris, France, November 2016).
  • MODRED 2017 (Odense, Danemark, January 2017). [Slides]
• PREIM (Progressive RB-EIM) for nonlinear PDEs:
  • ENUMATH 2017 (Voss, Norway, September 2017). [Slides]
  • MORTech 2017 (Sevilla, Spain, November 2017).[Slides]
  • MoRePaS 2018 (Nantes, France, April 2018). [Poster]
  • GDR AMORE 2018 (Paris, France, November 2018).

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Teaching activities

• Arithmetics and cryptography basics at University Pierre et Marie Curie: [webpage]
• Training session at EDF R&D on the industrial model reduction software developed during the thesis.
• Supervision of a Master's thesis on applied model reduction to industrial valves at EDF R&D.
• Hands-on session on model reduction at University Mohamed 6 Polytechnique [Assignment].