Teaching and Students

Available Masters Projects

  • Develpment of 2D and 3D numeircal models of Norwegian fjords using finite element methods
  • Investiagation of implicit, explicit, and imex time stepping for finite element appriximations in coastal engineering applications
  • Machine learning for meteorological forcings in shallow water numerical models
  • Finite elements methods and Low-Rank approximations (with Jonas Kusch)
  • Modeling batteries and their degradation (with Mathijs Janssen)
  • Modeling of aquaculture offshore installations (with Odd Ivar Lekang and industrial partner)

Courses Thaught

  • The Finite Element Method TBM350.
  • Programming and Data Processing INF120
  • Partial Differential Equations MAth250

Students

Ph.D.
  • Dr. Benjamin Pachev, Automated GPU Acceleration of Stabilized Shallow Water Solvers with FEniCSx (2024) Co-supervisor with Clint Dawson
  • Dr. Chayanon (Namo) Wichitrnithed, Coupled Continuous-Discontinuous Galerkin solver for hurricane storm surges (2025) Co-supervisor with Clint Dawson
  • Kenton Wu (2022-) Co-supervisor with Clint Dawson
  • Matthew Scarborough (2023-) Main supervisor
  • Amirhossein Aghabarari (2024-) Co-supervisor with Marin Thomas Horsch and Mathijs Adriaan Janssen
  • Anne Stavang (2025-) Co-supervisor with Nils-Otto Kitterød, Louise Chavarie, and Thomas Skaugen
M.Sc.
  • Tonje Martine Lorgen Kirkholt (NMBU 2024) “Investigating the Viability of Machine Learning for the Prediction of Icing Occurrences at Airports”, main supervisor with John Bjørnar Bremnes and Jean Rabault Førland
  • Sougata Bhattacharya (NMBU 2024) “Knowledge Graphs for Software Security Assessments and Cyber Threat Intelligence”, main supervisor with Leon Moonen
  • Raul Andreas Sanjines (NMBU 2024) “A Parameter Estimation Approach in Simulated Neural Data Using Metamodelling Approaches”, main supervisor with Fadi Al Machot
  • Bikesh Shresta (NMBU 2024) “Low-Rank Methods in Julia”, with main supervisor Jonas Kusch
  • Navneet Sharma (NMBU 2025) “Large Language Models in Semantic Parsing for Log Analysis and Anomaly Detection”, main supervisor with Leon Moonen
  • Erling Tennøy Nordtvedt (2025) “Machine Learning Approach for R-adaptive Mesh Refinement in Finite Element Analysis”, main supervisor with Jonas Kusch
  • Sujan Devkota (2025) “Enhancing Sperm Detection in Microscopic Videos Using Image Super-Resolution: An Experimental Study on Detection Accuracy and Generalization”, main supervisor with Vajira Thambawita
  • Jouval Max Erik Somer (2024-) with Kent-Andre Mardal
  • Nivetha Suntharamoorthy (2025-) main supervisor with Helge Spieker
  • Mahdi Hosseini (2025-) main supervisor with Jørgen Dokken
  • Åsmund Tveit Aspholm (2025-) main supervisor
  • Tobias Sørlie (2025-)
  • Aksel Aimar Gundersen (2025-)