Introduction
I am a Morrey Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department and the Department of Mathematics at LBNL. I'm interested in computational applied mathematics, and I work on developing parallel and high-performance simulation methods to address problems in solid and fluid mechanics.
Recent research interests
From 2007–2010 I was a postdoctoral researcher in mathematics at Berkeley. During some of my time there, I worked on simulations of dense granular materials, and as part of this I wrote a free software library, Voro++, for carrying out three-dimensional cell-based computations of the Voronoi tessellation. I also learnt about continuum simulation methods, applying them to study plastic deformation in amorphous materials, and time-periodic water waves. Currently, I am working with the Bay Area Physical Sciences-Oncology Center on computational cell modeling.
Collaborations
I collaborate on a number of research projects at different institutions. I work with physicists at UC Santa Barbara and the Weizmann Institute on developing computational methods to study deformation in glassy materials. At LBL, I have used my Voronoi software library to automatically screen databases of zeolites to analyze their porosity properties. I also work with the Laboratory for Thermal-Hydraulics at the Paul Scherrer Institute, on designing a scaled-down engineering facility to study graphite wear at high temperatures. For more information about my current work, see my research pages and my publications list.