Scientist

Posted on: 2006-02-23

2721 Midtown Court #205, Palo Alto, CA 94303, (650) 462-9712 www.limsi.fr/Individu/kasia Polish citizenship (has U.S. employment authorization) EXPERIENCE * Graduate Research, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France. 2001 - 2005 o Investigated pattern dynamics in Rayleigh-Bénard convection in cylindrical containers, using various numerical approaches: time integration, linear stability analysis, steady state solving. o Analyzed the results, applying bifurcation theory with emphasis on symmetries of the system. o Enhanced an existing 3D pseudospectral simulation code, adding steady-state solver and Arnoldi method. o Optimized simulation program for vector platform NEC-SX. Ported the code to Windows PC. o Created tools for postprocessing, visualization and automating these tasks. o Presented results in scientific journals, conferences and seminars. o Gave several seminars on optimization and visualization tools. o Supervised research project of an undergraduate student. * Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Mechanics, University of Paris XI. 2004 - 2005 o Taught courses for graduate and advanced undergraduate students on scientific programming, including C, Fortran 90, graphics, Fluent, finite volume methods (97 hours). o Taught course on office applications (45 hours). * IT specialist at ESRI-Poland. 3/2001 - 7/2001 o Created interfaces for land register Oracle databases. Utilized Power Builder, SQL Developer, control version system. * Research internship, ENS, Paris. 3/2000 - 7/2000 o Investigated transitional growth of perturbation energy in plane Couette flow. o Wrote, as a part of two-person team, 2D Navier-Stokes pseudospectral simulation code. EDUCATION * PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics, University of Paris VII. 2005 o Thesis: ``Three-dimensional patterns in cylindrical Rayleigh-–Bénard convection\'\' (written in English). Advised by L. S. Tuckerman. * MSc in Computational Physics, University of Wrocław (Poland). 2001 o Five-year course on physics and computational sciences. Comprised basic and advanced physics courses (statistical physics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics), many numerical courses and projects on simulation methods (Monte Carlo methods, cellular automata, discrete-events), several IT-oriented subjects (web application design, algorithms and data structures, database administration). o Included one-year ERASMUS fellowship at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. o Overall grade: Very Good. RESEARCH INTERESTS * Computational fluid mechanics, Rayleigh-Bénard convection. * Numerical simulation of partial differential equations, spectral methods, finite volumes. * Linear stability analysis, dynamical systems, bifurcation theory. * High-performance computing, MPI, scientific visualization. COMPUTER SKILLS * Programming and scripting: C, C++, Fortran 90, Maple, Perl. * Programming tools: makefile syntax, IDEs, debuggers, profilers. * MS Windows: administration, Win32 API programming, batch scripting. * Unix/Linux: advanced shell scripting (sh/ksh/bash, Tcl/Tk), X11, job queuing systems. * Platform-oriented optimization. * Data analysis: FFT, correlations, statistics. * Visualization: VTK, AVS, Tecplot, Gnuplot. * Database design and development: SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Power Builder, MS Access. * Internet tools: HTML, Java Script and PHP. LANGUAGES * Polish: mother tongue. * English: fluent (Cambridge First Certificate in English). * French: fluent (five-year stay). * Spanish: rudimentary. HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS * 2005 PhD awarded with Highest honors. * 2001 Thesis fellowship awarded by the French ministry of research. * 1999 Erasmus fellowship awarded.