Andy Kassen

About Me

In 2021, I completed my Ph.D. in the mathematics department at the University of Utah as a part of the mathematical biology program. My research is in 3D simulations of whole blood on GPUs, which involves computational fluid dynamics, solid mechanics using radial basis functions to create elastic cell models, and high-performance computing. I am interested in high-order radial basis function-based numerical methods for PDEs on irregular domains and PDEs with discontinuities. I am also interested in numerical methods for the Navier-Stokes equations in irregular domains.

Education and Experience

1. B.S. Mathematical and Scientific Computation B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of California, Davis 2006-2011
2. Research Assistant University of California, Berkeley 2011-2012
   • High-throughput genomic sequencing of cassava bacterial blight strains identifies conserved effectors to target for durable resistance
3. Ph.D. Mathematics University of Utah 2013-2021
   
   Publications
   • A continuous energy-based immersed boundary method for elastic shells
   • A fine-grained parallelization of the immersed boundary method
   • Immersed boundary simulations of cell-cell interactions in whole blood (in preparation)
   
   Thesis
   • Continuous energy, shared memory parallel, 3-dimensional whole blood simulations

Research

Here you can find links to some preliminary results for the projects I have been working on.

• Parallel IB results
• Some RBC force model tests
• Some platelet force model tests
• Some whole blood simulations

Code written in the last week

This is just an approximation based on changes in some local git repos. Pie wedges not to scale.

Find me

email

kassen (at) math.utah.edu
atkassen (at) gmail.com

phone

+1 801 585 1646

office

LCB 326

address

155 S 1400 E RM 233
Salt Lake City, UT, 84112-0090

Other stuff

I formerly organized the biofluids/gels research group meeting.
In the past, I have taught MATH 2210, MATH 1090, MATH 1100, MATH 1210, and have been a TA for MATH 1310, MATH 1320, and MATH 4100/COMP 5360.
For the 2016-2017 academic year, I was webmaster for the Mathematics GSAC website and was the webmaster for the Mathematical Biology group website from 2017 to 2019.