Fady Najjar's Resumé

FADY MICHEL NAJJAR

Address:
1304 West Springfield Avenue
2255 DCL, MC-278
Urbana
IL 61801

(217) 333-8895 (Work)
(217) 333-8497 (Fax)
(217) 363-0180 (Home)
e-mail: fnajjar@cse.uiuc.edu
WWW: http://www.cse.uiuc.edu/~fnajjar

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging position in high-performance computing with focus on computational fluids dynamics and heat transfer, and multiphase in biomedical flows, biological flows, reactive flows, and related fields.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Computational Science and Engineering

Co-designs and develops multiple physics software framework for advanced comutational fluid dynamics flow simulations for solid propellant rocket motors. Framework entails compressible Eulerian solver, Lagrangian particle tracker, turbulence models based on subgrid-scales stress modles and species evolution.
Develops and co-designs with Prof. Rajat Mittal a CFD software for cartesian grid methods with complex moving boundaries for synthetic jets, MEMS and biological flows.
Develops software to simulate droplets evolution in solid propellant rocket motors.
Leads code integration effort of Lagrangian particle tracking code with Eulerian fluids solver. Realizes simulations with millions of particles interacting with millions of fluid cells as one of the cutting-edge technology in two-phase flow simulations.
Performs leading-edge benchmark efforts on ASCI platforms (IBM SP-3, IBM SP-4, CRAY/SGI Origin 2000, CRAY T3E, Intel TFLOP) with thousands of processors. Achieves high-performance scalability on largest computer systems in the world.
Leads validation effort for fluids code software. Assesses results obtained from simulations and compares to experimental cases. Seeks communication channels with various world-wide researchers such as ONERA, SNPE and ESA in Europe.
Provides inputs as design Team Member for development and specifications of interdisciplinary software to simulate normal and abnormal conditions in solid-propellant rockets. Disciplines include fluids, structure, combustion and computational frameworks.

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Provided software support for leading-edge supercomputing center with users in various computational backgrounds.
Lead main liaison between local computer users and compiler developers.
Developed and implemented strategies for code migration from Parallel Vector Machines (CRAY 2) to Distributed-Shared Memory (DSM) systems (CRAY/SGI Origin 2000).
Applied analysis tools to improve performance for production codes. Achieved 70% of peak performance of machine with a parallel codes

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Developed and implemented code migration strategies to symmetric multi-processor (SMP) platforms (CRAY/SGI Challenger).
Applied code tuning and performance analysis for production codes.

Thinking Machines Corporation

Lead site support for hardware and software maintenance including day-to-day operations of massively parallel processing system.
Lead main liaison between local computer users and compiler developers.
Lead performance analysis for MPP codes on CM-5.
Implemented strategies for data-mining analysis with Darwin Tool using classification and regression trees (CART), artificial neural networks (ANN), and memory-based reasoning algorithms.

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Developed high-performance computing code for Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) using the dynamic subgrid-scale stress model.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, May 1994
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, Illinois (GPA 4.0/ 4.0)
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, January 1990
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, Illinois (GPA 4.0/4.0)
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, July 1987
American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon (GPA 4.9/5.0)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Proficient in FORTRAN 77, FORTRAN 90, CM-FORTRAN, HPFORTRAN, OpenMP and MPI.
Proficient in Hybrid (Embedded) Parallelism (OpenMP + MPI).
Proficient in programming PVP Computers, and MPP, DSM, cluster DSM and S2MP platforms.
Proficient in Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Unix systems.
Basic Knowledge of C and HTML.
Working Knowledge on Wintel platforms.
Extensive use of commercial CFD software package (Tecplot, GridGen, Fidap).

COURSE WORK

Intermediate & Advanced Gas Dynamics
Numerical Fluid Flow/Heat Transfer
Intermediate Heat Transfer & Radiation
Internal Combustion Engines
Gas Turbines & Aircraft Engines
Combustion

Turbulence
Polymer Processing
Instrumentation & Microcomputer Control
Finite Element Analysis
Spectral Methods & Multigrid Methods
Parallel Processing

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

Recipient of the 1998 Extraction & Processing Technology Award, The Minerals, Metal & Materials Society (TMS), 1998.
Recipient of a Post-doctoral fellowship from the Division of Advanced Scientific Computing at the National Science Foundation, May 1994-October 1995.
Recipient of the Jerry Silver Award, the Iron & Steel Society, to recognize excellence in research at a Master's level in the field of iron and steel, 1991.
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Outstanding Research Assistant Fellowship, September 1989-May 1990.
Member of the Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi.
Member of the Honor Engineering Society, Tau Beta Pi.
American University of Beirut Dean's Honor List, 1984-1987.

PUBLICATIONS

Over thirty articles, technical reports and conference proceedings in journals with international circulation, such as International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Metallurgical Transactions, Physics of Fluids and Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics.

STATUS

US Citizen.