Experience

The Equity Engineering Group

• United States
• Engineering Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Researcher

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  • Lead on DOE-SBIR grant for integration of HPC into E2G software.• Design and deployment of computational cloud web applications. • Implemented parallel computing infrastructure for multiprocessing.• Developed Fast and Efficient algorithms for Bayesian Artificial Intelligence.• Prototyping database driven applications for IoT and asset management. • RESTful API Design, NoSQL Databases for industrial data managementInterests/Expertise:• Computational Science and Engineering• Large-scale computation and uncertainty quantification. • Cloud Computation, Web-App Development, and HPC • Python, Golang, Containerization Docker/Kubernetes, • Modern Database driven applications via Arango, Redis, MongoDB.• Server-Side Node.js applications



The University of Nottingham

• Veterinary Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics

  • Sep 2015 - Jul 2018

  Accomplishments• Secured funding on a EU GeoEnergy Consortia grant for Nottingham ($940k), networked with scientists/engineers, prepared and negotiated large budgets ($9.6m).• Lead on grant applications with collaborators in Qatar on subsurface modeling.• Directed interdisciplinary research projects and supervised young scientists.• Communicated complex subjects to large audiences with various backgrounds.• Recruited fellow faculty, PhD, and MSc students. Secured PhD funding.• Directed and lectured large undergraduate engineering mathematics courses.Technical Achievements • Wrote finite element Python code in FENICS for implementing stochastic material effective properties solver.• Analyzed novel models and multiscale methods for non-local flow models.• Derived effective models for swelling mechanics in materials, published in Proceedings of Royal Society.• Collaborative research on engineering materials behavior, integration of data into models.• Design of computational geomechanics (poroelasticity) methods implemented and analyzed.



The University of Bonn

• Germany
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Hausdorff Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2015

  Postdoctoral Research in the Institute for Numerical Simulation. Accomplishments • Selected out of over 200 applicants for a competitive independent postdoctoral fellowship at QS-rankings top mathematics department in Germany.• Organized international mini-symposium in multiscale methods for materials and fluids in Beijing, China, and presented technical lectures to peers.• Investigated long term deeply technical and challenging mathematical research,with a great degree of autonomy and independence. Resulted in 3 publications.Technical Achievements• Solved an outstanding problem in the area of subsurface wave propagation.• Developed methods to analyze acoustic wave propagation in heterogeneous materials. • Analyzed and developed algorithms for methods of flow in porous microstructures.



King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

• Saudi Arabia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Sep 2012 - May 2014

  Postdoctoral Researcher in Numerical Porous Media Center. Accomplishments• Liaised with industrial oil & gas contacts in the Persian Gulf Region.• Collaborated with various scientists/engineers in the center, published results.• Broadened research portfolio outside of thesis area, absorbing new material quickly. Technical Achievements • Implemented Lattice Boltzmann code in Fortran for flow calculations, integrated in model reduction research. • Analysis of algorithms for phase field modeling of interfaces in complex fluids and materials. • Derived effective models and error estimates for for high-contrast flows.



Fraunhofer ITWM

• Germany
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  • Interpore-Fraunhofer Award Winner.• Worked on deriving and simulating models for Lithium Ion Batteries.• Continuum models for flow and transport in complex battery materials.• Advised junior scientists and collaborated with researchers in the Institute for Industrial Mathematics. • Interpore-Fraunhofer Award Winner.• Worked on deriving and simulating models for Lithium Ion Batteries.• Continuum models for flow and transport in complex battery materials.• Advised junior scientists and collaborated with researchers in the Institute for Industrial Mathematics.



Texas A&M University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jun 2007 - Aug 2012

  • Graduate Research Assistant• KAUST-Institute for Applied and Computational Mathematics Fellowship. • National Science Foundation-IGERT Research Graduate Fellowship: "Mathematical Tools for Next-Generation Materials" Doctoral Thesis Technical Achievements• Worked on areas of fluid-structure interaction and their multiscale models and methods. • Derived homogenization error estimates for upscaling methods of flow in porous media.• Pore-scale (Stokes) to core-scale (Darcy) multilevel finite element upscaling method implemented in Matlab. Robustness and Error estimates where analyzed and obtained. • Derived and analyzed effective geomechanical models while integrating fluid-structure effects.



Nanyang Technological University

• Singapore
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

  • NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institute Award.• Collaborated with Singapore researchers on multiscale fluid mechanics.• Wrote Matlab code for finite element upscaling algorithm.• Analyzed algorithms for Fluid-to-Diffusive upscaling, derived error estimates and robustness. • NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institute Award.• Collaborated with Singapore researchers on multiscale fluid mechanics.• Wrote Matlab code for finite element upscaling algorithm.• Analyzed algorithms for Fluid-to-Diffusive upscaling, derived error estimates and robustness.