Pouria Akbari Mistani (NVIDIA)

Pouria received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) from University of California Santa Barbara in 2020, and his MS degree in Physics with an emphasis in computational astrophysics from University of California Riverside in 2014. Prior to that, he received two B.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Physics from Sharif University of Technology in Iran in 2013. Pouria did his postdoctoral studies at Merck Research Lab, where he developed computational models for high concentration biotherapeutic formulations. Pouria’s research interest is focused on computational modeling and simulation of multiscale phenomena. In his career he has applied advanced numerical techniques to develop computational models and HPC simulation softwares for several complex physical systems including galaxy clusters, cell aggregates, atomic islands, instabilities of high concentration protein formulations, parametrization of molecular dynamics force fields, and using AI for accelerating molecular dynamics simulations.