People#

Group Lead#

Jed Brown ORCID iD icon#

Jed Brown

jed.brown@colorado.edu

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Jed is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and leads the Physical Prediction, Inference, and Design Group. Among other community software work, he is a maintainer of PETSc and libCEED, and Associate Editor for JOSS and CSAE. He likes climbing, skiing, running, cycling, and spending time outside with his partner and two daughters.

Research Associates#

Jeremy L. Thompson ORCID iD icon#

Jeremy L. Thompson

jeremy@jeremylt.org

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Jeremy is a research software engineer. He is a core developer of libCEED and Ratel, interested in performance-portable high-order finite element methods, matrix-free multigrid, and computational fluid and solid mechanics.

Fabio Di Gioacchino ORCID iD icon#

Fabio.DiGioacchino@colorado.edu

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Fabio is a Research Associate working on constitutive modeling for crystal plasticity and damage as part of the PSAAP center.

Rezgar Shakeri ORCID iD icon#

Rezgar Shakeri

rezgar.shakeri@colorado.edu

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Research Associate working on mixed-FEM and MPM for finite-strain inelastic materials as part of the PSAAP center.

PhD Students#

Leila Ghaffari ORCID iD icon | Computer Science#

Leila Ghaffari

leila.ghaffari@colorado.edu

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Leila (LAY-luh) is interested in high-order finite element methods, computational fluid and solid mechanics, fast algebraic solvers, and exploiting Automatic Differentiation in scientific computing. She is a contributor to libCEED and Ratel.

Rey Koki | Computer Science#

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Collaborating with NOAA on remote sensing and prediction of smoke from wildfires.

Ren Stengel ORCID iD icon | Computer Science#

karen.stengel@colorado.edu

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Ren is a PhD student working on Ratel development. Their current interests revolve around improving the accessibility of High Performance and Scientific computation via more efficient algorithms and computational neuroscience.

Corey Murphey | Computer Science#

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Working on fluid-structure interaction and atomization for vocal folds.

Zach Atkins ORCID iD icon | Computer Science#

Zach Atkins

zach.atkins@colorado.edu

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Zach is a PhD student in Computer Science working on Ratel development. Their interests include robust and scalable methods for contact simulation in solid mechanics, as well as implicit material point methods for the simulation of heterogeneous granular materials.

Nafees Iqbal ORCID iD icon | Computer Science#

Nafees Iqbal

nafees.iqbal@colorado.edu

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Nafees is a PhD student working on rsmpi development. His research interests lie in parallel and high-performance computing, with a focus on building robust and efficient software systems for scientific applications.

Mohadeseh Khoshnevisan | Computer Science#

Mohadeseh.Khoshnevisan@colorado.edu

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Mohi(MOH-hee) is a PhD student interested in numerical methods for PDEs, with a focus on fluid dynamics and homogenization.

Undergraduate Students#

Allen MacFarland | Computer Science#

allen.macfarland@colorado.edu

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Allen is an undergrad who likes making software faster and easier to use

Alumni#

Name

Position

Current Position

Rezgar Shakeri ORCID iD icon

Civil Engineering PhD, 2020-2024

Research Associate, CU Boulder

Evan Gassiot

Mechanical Engineering BS, 2023-2024

Mike McCabe

Computer Science PhD, 2019-2024

Research Engineer, Flatiron Institute

Adeleke Bankole ORCID iD icon

Research Associate, 2021-2023

Cambridge University

Constance Delannoy

MS Applied Math

Mathematica

Sarah Gage

Computer Science grad student

Sandia National Laboratory

Zack Jorquera

Computer Science BS student

PhD student, UC Santa Cruz

Jeremy Thompson ORCID iD icon

Applied Math PhD, 2017-2021

RSE, CU Boulder

Emily Jakobs

Applied Math BS+MS, 2019-2021

ANSYS

Valeria Barra ORCID iD icon

Research Associate, 2018-2020

Assistant Professor, San Diego State University

Tristan Konolige ORCID iD icon

Computer Science PhD, 2016-2020

Principal Engineer, OctoML

Dmitry Duplyakin

Computer Science PhD, 2015-2017

Researcher III, NREL

Arash Mehraban

Computer Science PhD, 2015-2017, 2020

ML Engineer, ResMed

Matthew Normile

Aerospace Engineering BS+MS Student, 2017-2019

Engineer