Ravi Kappiyoor — Software Engineer

I am a recent graduate from the PhD program in Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech. My background is primarily in computational science, with an emphasis on high performance computing. I have written and optimized complex simulations using varied simulation techniques, from molecular dynamics to smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and finite element methods. I first began writing code in C at a very young age, writing several toy projects such as an emulator for a very simple arcade system that could play Pong and Pacman. As I grew older, I also began to learn C++ to build a very basic non-optimizing compiler. In joining graduate school, I made sure to choose a program in which I could use these skills to solve real-world engineering problems. In graduate school, I furthered my knowledge of programming and high performance computing by becoming the go-to among several colleagues for computational help. This has led to me being involved in projects in a variety of different fields, ranging from thermal transport across boundaries to image analysis using computed tomography to the mechanical properties of cellular membranes under compression. During this time, I began to learn and use both MPI and CUDA. In my previous job as a Computational Mechanics Engineer at Third Wave Systems, I had the opportunity to use the skills I have learned to increase the performance of their software at all levels. I had the opportunity to make algorithmic improvements, increase shared-memory parallelism with OpenMP, and begin work on a new distributed-memory code with MPI.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Computational Mechanics Engineer with expertise in high performance computing and simulation technologies.

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Experience: 15 yrs 4 mos