Aron Ahmadia, Computational Scientist

Computational Scientist, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Research field: Mathematics - Mathematical Modelling and Industrial Mathematics
Computational Science, Numerical Linear Algebra, High Performance Scientific Computing, High Performance Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization

Publications

Conference Proceedings (5)
- Nathan Collier, Hyoseop Lee, Aron Ahmadia et al. (2011) GPU Acceleration of the Assembly Process in Isogeometric Analysis. In Second International Workshop on New Frontiers in High-performance and Hardware-aware Computing.
  http://bit.ly/dGqoha
- Amal Alghamdi, Aron Ahmadia, David I Ketcheson et al. (2011) PetClaw : A Scalable Parallel Nonlinear Wave Propagation Solver for Python. In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Symposium 2011 (HPC 2011) (to appear).
  http://web.kaust.edu.sa/faculty/david...
  
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- A. Ahmadia, D. Keyes, D. Melville et al. (2009) Distributed Decomposition over Hyperspherical Domains, 251–258. In Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XVIII.
  http://www.springerlink.com/index/QN8...
- A Ahmadia, B Ellerbroek (2005) A Software Framework for Fast Adaptive Optics Control with Atmospheric Tomography. In Adaptive Optics: Analysis and Methods/Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging/Information Photonics/Signal Recovery and Synthesis Topical Meetings on CD-ROM.
  http://www.opticsinfobase.org/viewmed...
  
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- A J Ahmadia, B L Ellerbroek (2003) Parallelized simulation code for multiconjugate adaptive optics, 218-227. In Astronomical Adaptive Optics Systems and Applications. Edited by Tyson, Robert K.; Lloyd-Hart, Michael. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5169, pp. 218-227 (2003)..
Journal Article (2)
- Jed Brown, Barry Smith, Aron Ahmadia Achieving textbook multigrid efficiency for hydrostatic ice sheet flow. In submitted.
- Tareq M. Malas, Aron J. Ahmadia, Jed Brown et al. Optimizing the Performance of Streaming Numerical Kernels on the IBM BlueGene/P PowerPC 450. In submitted.
Thesis (1)
- Aron Jamil Ahmadia (2010) Parallel Strategies for Nonlinear Mask Optimization in Semiconductor Lithography.
  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/65439/thesis.pdf

Awards and Grants

Sep 2004

CfAO mini-grant "A software framework for fast adaptive optics control with atmospheric tomography" View website

Biographical Information

Born and raised on the Big Island of Hawai'i, Aron Ahmadia graduated from Waiakea High School in 2000. He started an undergraduate career in Computer Engineering, but later adjusted his focus to computational science after several rewarding research experiences with Gemini Telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope Project, and the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope Project under mentors Dr. Brent Ellerbroek, Dr. Curtis Vogel, and Dr. Miska Le Louarn.

Inspired and guided by PETSc developers Dr. Barry Smith and Dr. Matthew Knepley, Aron applied for and received admission to the Applied Mathematics program at Columbia University, where Prof. David Keyes served as his adviser, mentor, and friend until the successful defense and deposit of his PhD in 2010.

Aron has been working as a Computational Scientist for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology since March of 2009, where he enjoys the occassional stint as lecturer (Parallel Computing Paradigms, Fall 2010), research time on Shaheen, their 65,536 core supercomputer, and the occasional dive with whale sharks.