Joannes Westerink
Joseph and Nona Ahearn Professor in Computational Science and Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
1984 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1981 M.S. Civil Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
1979 B.S. Civil Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, State University of New York at Buffalo
jjw@nd.edu

Damrongsak Wirasaet
Research Associate Professor
High performance DG finite element solutions to shallow water equations,
transport equations and Navier Stokes equations.
2007 Ph.D. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
2005 M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
1999 M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok
1997 B.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok
dwirasae@nd.edu

Albert Cerrone
Research Assistant Professor
Propagating uncertainty through hydrodynamic simulation frameworks with machine learning and ensemble forecasts
2014 Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
2009 B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Notre Dame  
acerrone@nd.edu

Dylan Wood
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Integrating hydrology and coastal hydraulics in dynamic parallel computational frameworks
2020 Ph.D. Civil, Environmental & Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University
2016 M.S. Mathematical Science w/Computational Sciences, The Ohio State University 
2014 B.S. Physics, Austin Peay State University
dwood7@nd.edu

Hannah Spero
Graduate Research Assistant
Investigating large-scale fluid flow hazards (tsunamis, dam failures, landslides, storms) by combining
numerical modeling and remote-sensing methods
2021 B.S. Geosciences, Emphasis in Hydrology; Minor: Accessibility Studies, Boise State University
hspero@nd.edu

Aman Tejaswi
Graduate Research Assistant
2022 MTech, Water Resources Engineering & Management, IIT Kharagpur
2020 BTech, Agricultural Engineering, SHUATS Prayagraj
atejaswi@nd.edu

Diane Westerink
Lab Coordinator
westerink.5@nd.edu                                                                                                                                                         

Past Students and Post Docs (with current affiliation)

• Coleman Blakely, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory
• Maria Teresa Contreras Vargas, Postdoctoral Research Associate , Los Alamos National Laboratory  
• Mindo Choi, Physical Scientist II, SAIC, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
• Guoming Ling, Assistant Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
• Joaquin Moris Barra, Assistant Professor, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile
• William Pringle, Numerical Modeler/Coastal Hydrology, Argonne National Laboratory 
• Keith Roberts, Senior Engineer, Baird & Associates
• Brian Joyce, Scientist - Storm Surge Risk, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance
• Steven Brus, Assistant Computational Scienctist, Argonne National Laboratory 
• Andika Suhardjo, Software Maintenance Technician, Indiana Toll Road
• Aaron Donahue, Staff Scientist, Cloud Processes Research group, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Elizabeth Holzenthal, SMART Scholar, Oregon State University, internship US Army Corps ERDC, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory
  
• Jessica Meixner, Physical Scientist,NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
• Juan Gonzalez-Lopez, Senior Coastal Scientist, DHI, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
• Mark Hope, Senior Vice President, Guy Carpenter
• Patrick Corbitt Kerr, Coastal Engineering Section Chief, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District
• Rosanne Martyr-Koller, Coastal Hazards and Adaptation Scientist, Climate Analytics
• Maxwell Agnew, Hydraulic Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, LA
• Zachary Cobell, Research Engineer, The Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, LA
• Seizo Tanaka, Associate Professor, Hiroshima Institute of Technology
• Casey Dietrich, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
• Shintaro Bunya, Research Scientist, Coastal Resilience Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Ethan Kubatko, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Hugh Roberts, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, The Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, LA
• Michael Schubert, Water Resources Engineer, HDR Engineering, Des Moines, IA
• Patricia Drummey Stiegel, Water/Wastewater Engineer, Hazen and Sawyer, Raleigh, NC
• Dave Mark, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS
• Ann Mukai, Senior Civil Engineer, R.M. Towill Corporation, Honolulu, HA
• Emily (Spargo) Dhingra, Coastal Team Lead, AECOM, Germantown, MD
• Jesse Feyen, Deputy Director, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, NOAA
• John Atkinson, Director, Hydrodynamic Modeling, Arcadis U.S. Inc.
• Scott Hagen, Professor and John P. Laborde Endowed Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University; Director, LSU Center for Coastal Resiliency
• Cheryl Ann Blain, Research Oceanographer, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS
• Julia Muccino, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University
• Randy Kolar, David Ross Boyd and Austin Presidential Professor, Director, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
• Jiankang Wu, Professor, Mechanics Department, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Elvan Cantekin, Lecturer, Bilgi University, Instanbul, Turkey
  
  

Collaborators

• Clint Dawson, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
• Rick Luettich, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Andrew Kennedy, Alex Taflanidis, David Richter, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
• Ty Wamsley, Jane Smith, Bob Jensen, Dave Mark, Jay Ratcliff, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, US Army Corps Engineer Research and Development Center
• John Atkinson, Arcadis
• Hugh Roberts, Zach Cobell, The Water Institute of the Gulf
• Ethan Kubatko, Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Sciences, Ohio State University
• Shintaro Bunya, Consultant, Advanced Science and Innovation Group, Science and Safety Policy Research Division, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
• Randy Kolar, Kendra Dresback, Chris Szpilka, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma
• Wiebe de Jong, Mathijs van Ledden, Haskoning, Inc.
• Hasan Pourtaheri, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers-MVN
• Guus Stelling, Leo Holthuijsen, Marcel Zijlema, Julie Pietrzak, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology
• Cheryl Ann Blain, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center
• Mark Powell, Hurricane Research Division, NOAA
• Andrew Cox, Oceanweather Inc.
• Troy Butler, University of Colorado at Denver
• Donald Estep, Colorado State University
• Miguel Canals, Julio Morell, Aurelio Mercado, Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observatory System and University of Puerto RIco at Mayaguez
• Don Resio, Taylor Engineering Research Institute, College of Computing, Engineering and Construction, University of North Florida
• John Quinlan, NOAA Fisheries
• Andre Van der Westhuysen, Jesse Feyen, Hendrik Tolman, Bob Grumbine, Sergey Vinogradov, Saeed Moghimi, Ed Myers, Ali Abdolali, NOAA
• Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ning Lin, Princeton University