Christina Christara

Christina C. Christara is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on scientific computing, numerical methods, and high-performance computing, including parallel algorithms and large-scale PDE solvers. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in numerical methods and high-performance scientific computing. Her work spans applications in engineering, finance, and climate modeling.

Christina Christara is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, specializing in Numerical Analysis, Numerical Computation, and Parallel Numerical Computation. Her research focuses on developing and implementing numerical methods for solving partial differential equations, with applications in finance, geophysics, and computational science. She has contributed to the design of adaptive and high-order methods for valuing financial derivatives, as well as parallel algorithms for efficient computation on GPUs. Her work includes spline collocation methods, multigrid techniques, and domain decomposition strategies for solving elliptic and parabolic PDEs. Christara's research emphasizes the development of scalable and efficient numerical software for scientific computing.