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Biography

Shyam Mohan Subbiah Pillai is a remote postdoctoral researcher in the Stochastic Numerics group, specializing in stochastic optimal control, uncertainty quantification, and numerical methods for stochastic differential equations. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from RWTH Aachen University, where his work focused on the development and analysis of computational methods for chance-constrained stochastic control problems and rare-event simulation. 

Expertise and Interests

Shyam's research interests include Monte Carlo methods for rare events, numerical methods for McKean—Vlasov SDEs, and optimal control problems in engineering.

Education
Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.)
Mathematics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2025
Master of Science (M.S.)
Simulation Sciences, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2022
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, India, 2019

Visiting Students

Biography

Beichen Zhao is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at China University of Petroleum–Beijing. He is also a visiting student in the Applied Mathematics and Computational Science program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Expertise and Interests

Beichen’s research interests include physics-informed neural networks, scientific machine learning, surrogate modeling, subsurface fluid flow, CO₂ enhanced oil recovery, geological carbon storage, and geothermal reservoir simulation.

Education
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Energy Artificial Intelligence, China University of Petroleum - Beijing, China, 2023