David Del Rey Fernandez

David Del Rey Fernandez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. He holds the Pratt & Whitney Canada Research Chair in Industrial Artificial Intelligence, serves as Associate Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aeronautics, and is a Research Cluster Lead (Modelling) for the Future Cities Institute. He also acts as Graduate Officer for the Computational Mathematics Program.

Education:

• PhD from University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
• Postdoctoral fellowship at NASA Langley Research Center

Research interests focus on numerical methods for partial differential equations, including:

• Machine learning integration for simulations
• Quantum numerical methods
• Summation-by-parts and finite-element/discontinuous Galerkin/flux reconstruction methods
• Efficient computation technologies like mesh adaptation

Awards & Recognition

• Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Early Career Award (2024)