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• Gyrokinetic Toroidal Simulation code (GTS) Chief developer o Carry out a major upgrade of GTS (Gyrokinetic Toroidal Simulation code), a large-scale, highly parallelized code for particle simulations; o Implement the evolution of particle distribution functions in the self-consistent electromagnetic fields; o Develop data analysis and visualization toolkits utilizing python scientific computing packages (numpy, scipy, matplotlib, etc.); o Support… Show more • Gyrokinetic Toroidal Simulation code (GTS) Chief developer o Carry out a major upgrade of GTS (Gyrokinetic Toroidal Simulation code), a large-scale, highly parallelized code for particle simulations; o Implement the evolution of particle distribution functions in the self-consistent electromagnetic fields; o Develop data analysis and visualization toolkits utilizing python scientific computing packages (numpy, scipy, matplotlib, etc.); o Support team members for issues of utilizing GTS and super-computer;• GTS research physicist o Establish a new formulated theoretical foundation of electromagnetic (EM) gyrokinetic simulation to solve the cancellation problem; o Test and verify the physics simulation results of upgraded GTS for various EM modes. Show less

• Developed several physics modules of BOUT++, a large-scale, highly parallelized open source framework for 3D fluid simulation in curvilinear geometry written in C++;• Implemented the numerical schemes to solve phase-space equations in real-space coordinates;• Introduced multiprocessing for the python package of BOUT++ to improve the computing efficiency by 500%;• Provided technical support of BOUT++ in different supercomputer environments.

Doctor Of Philosophy In Physics, Plasma And High-Temperature Physics

• Teaching assistant for Algorithms and Data Structures (undergraduate); • BOUT++ project leader in Peking University o Ported BOUT++ code.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics