Rosen Center for Advanced Computing

Arman Pazouki

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Director Scientific Applications

  • apazouki@purdue.edu
  • Software Development, HPC Education, Parallel Programming, Scientific Applications

I have had the opportunity to champion research computing services at Purdue University, a work that has been especially meaningful to me because it sits at the intersection of technology, research, and institutional impact. Most recently at Purdue, I have supported a team accountable for AI, HPC, and Life Sciences services and research infrastructure. I currently serve as PI or Co-PI on two NSF grants. As PI, I lead a CC* funded campus networking grant, and as Co-PI, I direct research support services that expand use of the NSF-funded Anvil cyberinfrastructure serving ACCESS and the NAIRR Pilot. I have also been closely involved in various campus initiatives that aimed to support researchers expanding data and cyberinfrastructure needs, including issues pertaining to security and governance. helping strengthen support for research and education. Earlier in my career, I served in academic and leadership roles at other academic institutions, including leading research computing services at Northwestern University, serving as an Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles, where I gained valuable higher education leadership experience, and as a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I focused on HPC and GPU parallel programming well before GPUs became central to AI. Throughout my career, I have served as a reviewer for several funding opportunities and various journals and conferences.

Education

  • PhD Mechanical Engineering (2014), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
  • MS, Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  • B.S, Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran

Engagement

  • Co-Chair, CaRCC Career Arcs Working Group (2021-present)
  • Program Committee, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing (2019-2021)
  • Symposium Organizer, Contact and Interface Dynamics, ASME IDETC/CIE (2016-2019)
  • Symposium Organizer, Granular Media Modeling and Simulation Techniques, WCCM (2018)

Selected Publications

  • J. Rieser, P. Schiebel, A. Pazouki, F. Qian, Z. Goddard, A. Zangwill, D. Negrut, D. Goldman, Dynamics of scattering in undulatory active collisions, Physical Review E, 2019.
  • M. Rakhsha, A. Pazouki, R. Serban, D. Negrut, Using a half-implicit integration scheme for the SPH-based solution of fluid-solid interaction problems, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2019.
  • B. Song, A. Pazouki, T. Pöschel, Instability of smoothed particle hydrodynamics applied to Poiseuille flows, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2018.
  • H. Mazhar, A. Pazouki, P. Jayakumar, M. Rakhsha, D. Negrut, On the use of a differential variational approach to handling fluid-solid interaction problems via smoothed particle hydrodynamics, Journal of Computational Physics, 371: 92-110, 2018.
  • A. Pazouki, M. Kwarta, K. Williams, W. Likos, R. Serban, P. Jayakumar, D. Negrut, Compliant contact versus rigid contact – a comparison in the context of granular dynamics, Physical Review E, 2017.
  • A. Tasora, R. Serban, H. Mazhar, A. Pazouki, D. Melanz, J. Fleischmann, M. Taylor, H. Sugiyama, and D. Negrut, Chrono: An open source multi-physics dynamics engine, ISBN: 9783319403601, Springer, 2015.
  • A. Pazouki, D. Negrut, Numerical investigation of microfluidic sorting of microtissues, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 2015.
  • A. Pazouki and D. Negrut, A numerical study of the effect of particle properties on the radial distribution of suspension in pipe flow, Computers and Fluids, 2015.
  • A. Pazouki, R. Serban, and D. Negrut, A Lagrangian-Lagrangian framework for the simulation of rigid and deformable bodies in fluid, Multibody Dynamics: Computational Methods and Applications, ISBN: 9783319072593, Springer, 2014.
  • H. Mazhar, T. Heyn, D. Melanz, A. Pazouki, A. Bartholomew, D. Negrut, Paramsothy Jayakumar, and Alessandro Tasora, Accelerating multibody simulation and visualization GPU computing, Advances in Computers and Information in Engineering Research, ASME, 2014.
  • A. Pazouki R. Serban, and D. Negrut, A high performance computing approach to the simulation of fully resolved coupled fluid-multibody dynamics systems with free surfaces, Archive of Mechanical Engineering, 2014.
  • H. Mazhar, T. Heyn, A. Pazouki, D. Melanz, A. Seidl, A. Bartholomew, A. Tasora, and D. Negrut, Chrono: A parallel multi-physics library for rigid-body, flexible-body, and fluid dynamics, Mechanical Sciences, 2013.
  • A. Pazouki, H. Mazhar, and D. Negrut, Parallel collision detection of ellipsoids with applications in large scale multibody dynamics, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 2012.
  • D. Negrut, A. Tasora, M. Anitescu, H. Mazhar, T. Heyn, and A. Pazouki, Solving large multibody dynamics problems on the GPU, GPU Gems 2. ISBN: 9780123859631, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2011.

Selected Presentations