Alessandro Tasora
Professore at Università degli studi di Parma
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessandro Tasora is a professor and applied mechanics researcher with 16+ years of experience bridging high-performance scientific computing and robotics from Milan. He specializes in multibody dynamics, multiphysics and elasto-hydrodynamics, combining advanced numerical methods, C++ and GPU/CUDA engineering to deliver production-grade simulation tools. As a long-standing contributor to the widely used ProjectChrono C++ library, he has implemented finite element beam models and enhanced exporters and demos that power real-world rotor and structural simulations. At Università degli studi di Parma he teaches and researches robotics, tribology and structural mechanics, translating theoretical mechanics into practical software. Known for bringing rigorous mechanics into high-performance code, he often blends classical continuum modeling with modern GPU-accelerated implementations.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Politecnico di Milano
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (7)
finite-element-analysis10
el10
c-language10
f10
cprogramming-language10
linear-algebra10
3d-graphics8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
projectchrono/chrono
Feb 2010 - Jan 2023
High-performance C++ library for multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & FEA Engineer
Back-end Developer & FEA EngineerContributions:2530 commits, 8 PRs, 558 pushes in 13 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alessandro contributed to the development of the ProjectChrono library, specifically focusing on finite element analysis (FEA) and related functionalities. Their work involved implementing new types of beam sections, including classes for generating and manipulating the shape, inertia, and damping models for Euler beams. Additionally, the user modified demos and tests to integrate the new beam sections and to showcase the use of the developed features, including a demonstration involving a simplified rotor model. The user also made improvements in the POVray exporter.
c-plus-plussimulationroboticssimulationsmultibody
DigitalDynamicsLab/papers
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:95 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
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