He is the holder of the C.J. Craft Jr. Faculty Fellowship and the FCMG Research Chair in Robust Reduced Complexity Modeling in Reservoir Engineering. Dr. Gildin holds a PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and an MSc and BSc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Brazil. He has held postdoctoral positions with the Center for Subsurface Modeling at ICES/UT-Austin and the Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. His research interests include the mathematics of reservoir simulation, numerical methods for control and model reduction of large-scale systems, finite element modeling, numerical analysis and optimization with an emphasis in petroleum engineering problems.