Saurabh Sawant

Bio:

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where I lead the development of ELEQTRONeX, an exascale GPU-enabled computational framework for modeling quantum transport in nanoscale materials. My expertise lies in parallelizing and optimizing both particle-based and matrix-based numerical methods on heterogeneous architectures. I am passionate about developing scalable and modular C++ software for high-performance computing (HPC) to drive scientific discoveries.

Trained as a computational scientist, I have developed scalable computational tools to tackle complex physics problems across diverse scientific domains. During my Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, I developed a massively scalable solver for the Boltzmann Transport Equation using the DSMC method to study hypersonic flows and shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions. One of my largest simulations involved 60 billion computational particles and 4.5 billion computational cells, running on 20,000 distributed processors and utilizing over a million node-hours.

More about my work can be found on my webpage.