Alvaro Moraes

About

Alvaro Moraes worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Professor Raul F. Tempone's Stochastic Numerics Research Group at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Prior to that, Alvaro obtained a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from KAUST.

Research Interests

Alvaro's research interests included ​Uncertainty Quantification, Multiscale Modeling of Epidemic Diseases, and their Statistical Analysis and Simulation and Inference for Pure Jump Processes.

Selected Publications

• A. Moraes, F. Ruggeri, R. Tempone and P. Vilanova, "Multiscale Modeling of Wear Degradation in Cylinder Liners",  Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 12(1):396-409, 2014.
• A. Moraes, R. Tempone and P. Vilanova, "Hybrid Chernoff Tau-leap", Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 12(2):581-615, 2014.​ 
• A. Moraes, R. Tempone and P. Vilanova. "Multilevel Hybrid Chernoff Tau-leap", BIT Numerical Mathematics, April 2015. 
• A. Moraes, R. Tempone and P. Vilanova, "A multilevel adaptive reaction-splitting simulation method for stochastic reaction networks", submitted, 2014.
• C. Bayer, A. Moraes, R. Tempone, P. Vilanova, "An Efficient Forward-Reverse Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Statistical Inference in Stochastic Reaction Networks​", Stochastic Analysis and Applications, Volume 34, Issue 2, 2016.
• Olivier Le Maitre, Omar Knio, and Alvaro Moraes, "Variance Decomposition in Stochastic Simulators​", The Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 142, Issue 24, 2015.
• ​C. Ben Hammouda, A. Moraes, R. Tempone, Multilevel hybrid split-step implicit tau-leap, Numerical Algorithms, pp 1-34, June 2016.

Education Profile

• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
  • Ph.D. Of Science in Applied Mathematics, January 2015. GPA 3.96 / 4.0
  • Thesis Topic: Simulation and Statistical Inference of Stochastic Reaction Networks.
• ​University of the Republic, Uruguay.
  • B.Sc. in Statistics with a mayor in Actuarial Math, November 2008. GPA 3.50 / 4.0
  • Thesis Topic: Focused on nonlinear Bayesian regression applied to Item Response Theory.

Professional Memberships

• ​​​Invited faculty at the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI) at Arizona State University (​summer 2014).​
• Teaching Assistant at KAUST (Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equation with Random Inputs, Numerical Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations, Stochastic Methods in Engineering, Numerical Linear Algebra).
• Research Intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (summer 2009 and summer 2010).
• Lecturer at Universidad de la Republica (Numerical Analysis, Probability and Statistics, Linear Algebra, Special Topics in Advanced Statistics).

Awards and Distinctions

• Academic Excellence Award, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
• Provost´s Award for Outstanding Scholastic Scholarship, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
• Graduate Fellowship Award, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
• Member of the Uruguayan Team for the Iberoamerican Mathematical Olympiads.
• Laboratory of Probability and Statistics of the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay.