2026 Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium

The Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium is a forum for professors, postdocs, graduate students and other researchers in Georgia to meet in an informal setting, to exchange ideas, and to highlight local scientific computing research. Held every year since 2009, the symposium welcomes the entire research community. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, February 21, 2026, at the University of Georgia. The day-long program will feature invited talks, poster sessions with a “poster blitz,” and ample opportunities for networking.

Registration is now closed. For registration inquiries, please contact Hao-Ning Wu at hnwu@uga.edu.

Poster presentations are open to all; we especially welcome graduate students and postdocs to advertise their work. To participate, please include your poster title in the registration form. You’ll also be invited to our Poster Blitz for a one-minute, one-slide preview.

8:30–9:00	Registration
9:00–9:10	Welcome remarks
9:10–9:50	Ming-Jun Lai University of Georgia	Multivariate splines and their classic and modern applications
9:50–10:30	Marco Tezzele Emory University	Predictive digital twins based on graphical models: From infrastructure management to on-orbit operations
10:30–10:50	Coffee
10:50–11:30	Poster Blitz 1. Abir Haque (GT) – Massively parallel random phase approximation correlation energy via Lanczos quadrature 2. Aidan Tillman (GSU) – Impact of stochasticity on dynamic entrainment in a neuronal spiking model 3. Angelo Kwaku Boateng (GSU) – Rate-selective synchronization in switching networks: when timing meets structure 4. Ansley Bentley (Emory) – Randomized hybrid projection methods with recycling for inverse problems 5. Antonio Varagnolo (GT) – Physics-enhanced deep surrogates for the phonon Boltzmann transport equation 6. Ben Burns (GT) – Infinite-dimensional Stein variational inference with derivative-informed neural operators 7. Ben Wilfong (GT) – Shocks without shock capturing; compressible flow at 1 quadrillion degrees of freedom without loss of accuracy 8. Chloe Maitrejean (GSU) – Flight stability of cones and wedges 9. Daniel Vickers (GT) – Highly-parallel fluid-solid interactions for compressible flows 10. Davide Elia De Falco (SSM/Emory) – ELMs with space-time collocation for the numerical resolution of parabolic PDEs 11. Dilmini Warnakulasooriya (GSU) – Comparative analysis of β-adrenergic stimulation of myocyte contraction by different agonists 12. Elle Buser (Emory) – Computational methods for hyperparameter estimation with applications to separable nonlinear inverse problems 13. Emeka Mazi (GSU) – Transform method for modeling erosion analysis with cylindrical bodies in channel flow 14. Eric Fowler (GT) – High-performance tensor contractions in computational chemistry 15. Hamed Karami (GSU) – Modeling and control of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry using network disease dynamics 16. Haoran Yan (GT) – Understanding denoising autoencoders through the manifold hypothesis: a geometric perspective 17. Jiuru Lyu (Emory) – Test double descent with color intermittent diffusion (DD-CID) with challenges in different disciplines 18. Justyna Sokolik (GSU) – Network model of tissue engineering scaffolds 19. Kashvi Mundra (GT) – Autoregressive multifidelity neural surrogate modeling under scarce data regimes 20. Katherine Keegan (Emory) – Manifold-aware perturbations for constrained generative modeling 21. Lawan Wijayasooriya (GSU) – Dynamic entrainment for optimal pulse timing in Morris-Lecar model 22. Marrium Shamshad (GSU) – Aperiodic 1/f fingerprints of excitation–inhibition balance in human epilepsy 23. Max Collins (Emory) – Latent twins: learning physical systems from data 24. Mitchell Scott (Emory) – What makes a good preconditioner for data science? 25. Riley Yizhou Chen (Emory) – Variable projected augmented Lagrangian methods for generalized Lasso problems 26. Sebastian Gutierrez Herandez (GT) – PDPO: parametric density path optimization 27. Srijon Sarkar (Emory) – Kronecker approximations of covariance matrices for solving inverse problems 28. Tommy Stell (GSU) – Commitment issues in motoneurons: how ionic currents enable bistability 29. Umma Hafsah Himu (GSU) – Statistical meta-analysis to investigate the association of SNP (rs4680) in COMT gene with multiple cancers 30. Vivian Zhang (GT) – Multifidelity operator inference: non-intrusive reduced order modeling from scarce data 31. Xian Hadia (GT) – Data efficiency of surrogate models: learning physics data from full field data vs. inductive bias from approximate PDE solvers 32. Xiangming Huang (GT) – Neural operator accelerated evolutionary strategies for PDE-constraint optimization 33. Xu (Melissa) Wang (Emory) – A primal-dual price-optimization method for computing equilibrium prices in mean-field games models 34. Yiran Xu (GSU) – Nationwide epidemiologic and cost burden analysis of chemotherapy-induced neurological disorders 35. Zhaiming Shen (GT) – Understanding in-context learning on structured manifolds: bridging attention to kernel methods 36. Zhongjie Shi (GT) – Towards understanding generalization in DP-GD: a case study in training two-layer CNNs
11:30–12:30	Poster Session
12:30–14:00	Lunch at Bolton Dining Commons
14:00–14:40	Helen Xu Georgia Tech, CSE	Optimizing data movement in sparse computations via cache-friendly layouts
14:40–15:20	Chi-Kuang Yeh Georgia State University	Single and multi-objective optimal designs for group testing experiments
15:20–15:40	Coffee
15:40–16:20	Haomin Zhou Georgia Tech, Math	A parameterized Wasserstein Hamiltonian flow approach for solving the Schrödinger equation

Local Information

Lunch will be served at Bolton Dining Commons. Complimentary admission tickets will be provided to all attendees at the conference reception.
Parking is free on weekends per UGA parking policy. The address of the Physics Building is 220 Cedar Street, Athens, GA 30602. We recommend parking in the S1 Parking Lot or nearby lots (highlighted in orange). If it is full, alternative options include the Tate Center Deck and the South Deck.
Local Guide visitathensga.com

Participants

List of Participants (click to expand)

Sheriff Akeeb, Georgia State University
Mohammed S. Al-Mahrouqi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brighton Ancelin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Clara Armstrong, Emory University
Taiwo Ayeni, Georgia State University
Asma Azizi, Kennesaw State University
Mamoun Benchekroun, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ansley Bentley, Emory University
Christeen Bisnath, Georgia State University
Angelo Kwaku Boateng, Georgia State University
Vladimir E. Bondarenko, Georgia State University
Alex Brower, University of Georgia
Audrey Bu, Emory University
Benjamin Burns, Georgia Institute of Technology
Elle Buser, Emory University
Alina Chen, Emory University
Riley Yizhou Chen, Emory University
Sifur Safuka Chowdhury, Georgia State University
Allison Chung, Georgia Institute of Technology
Max Collins, Emory University
Luca Dieci, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chelsea Drum, Emory University
Jacob Eiermann, University of Georgia
Davide Elia De Falco, Scuola Superiore Meridionale
Caleb Fikes, Emory University
Eric Fowler, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kaine Griffin, University of Georgia
Viktorya Grigoryan, Emory University
Sebastián Gutiérrez Hernández, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dan Ha, Georgia Institute of Technology
Xian Hadia, Georgia Institute of Technology
Abir Haque, Georgia Institute of Technology
Cuiyu He, University of Georgia
Umma Hafsah Himu, Georgia State University
Weiwei Hu, University of Georgia
Xiangming Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Russell Jeter, Georgia State University
Tiffany Jin, Emory University
Sung-Ha Kang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hamed Karami, Georgia State University
Caner Kazanci, University of Georgia
Katherine Keegan, Emory University
Steven Kesser, University of Georgia
Andrew Krause, Georgia State University
Ming-Jun Lai, University of Georgia
Meixi Li, Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephanie Li, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yang Li, Georgia State University
Wenjing Liao, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tongtong Liu, University of Georgia
Yicong Luo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jiuru Lyu, Emory University
Chloe Maitrejean, Georgia State University
Manuela Manetta, Emory University
Talea Mayo, Emory University
Emeka Mazi, Georgia State University
Leslie J. Meadows, Georgia State University
Bakhshi Mehul, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mohammed Altayeb Yagoub Mohammed, Georgia State University
Leonardo Molinari, Emory University
Lin Mu, University of Georgia
Kashvi Mundra, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jim Nagy, Emory University
Toby Viet Nguyen, Georgia Institute of Technology
Levon Nurbekyan, Emory University
Lucas Onisk, Emory University
Valerio Palamara, University of Georgia
João M Pereira, University of Georgia
Joe Rao, Georgia Institute of Technology
Somiya Rauf, Georgia State University
Haley Rosso, Emory University
A Saha, Georgia Institute of Technology
Akshita Sahni, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pejman Sanaei, Georgia State University
Srijon Sarkar, Emory University
Mitchell Scott, Emory University
Marrium Shamshad, Georgia State University
Kaichen Shen, Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhaiming Shen, Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhongjie Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Martin Short, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ruiwen Shu, University of Georgia
Amy María Sims, Georgia State University
Sindhoora, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kevin Slote, Clarkson University
Justyna Sokolik, Georgia State University
Jack Michael Solomon, Emory University
Tommy Stell, Georgia State University
Marco Tezzele, Emory University
Alex Tian, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ye Tian, University of Georgia
Aidan Tillman, Georgia State University
Antonio Varagnolo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Alessandro Veneziani, Emory University
Deepanshu Verma, Clemson University
Daniel Vickers, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ishita Vohra, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ha Vu, Georgia State University
Xinning Wang, Georgia State University
Xu Wang, Emory University
Yan Wang, University of Georgia
Dilmini Warnkulasooriya, Georgia State University
Warin Watson, Emory University
Tharindu Wijayalath, Kennesaw State University
Lawan Wijayasooriya, Georgia State University
Ben Wilfong, Georgia Institute of Technology
Joseph Woods, Emory University
Hao-Ning Wu, University of Georgia
Helen Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tianshi Xu, Emory University
Yiran Xu, Georgia State University
Haoran Yan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Huanhuan Yang, Central China Normal University
Jiaqi Yang, Emory University
Yahong Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chi-Kuang Yeh, Georgia State University
Benjamin Yellin, Emory University
Vivian Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhe Zhong, Georgia State University
Haomin Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wei Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Organizers

Weiwei Hu, University of Georgia
Ming-Jun Lai, University of Georgia
Lin Mu, University of Georgia
João M Pereira, University of Georgia
Hao-Ning Wu, University of Georgia

Sponsored by the Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant #854439.