Brandon Talamini
Research Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL
Livermore, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrandon Talamini is a computational optimization engineer with eight years of research experience in computational solid mechanics, currently applying advanced modeling and numerical methods at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He specializes in fracture and contact mechanics, shape optimization, inverse analysis, and constitutive modeling of soft matter, with a track record spanning Sandia, MIT postdoc work, and a PhD from MIT in aerospace engineering. His work blends deep theory and practical simulation—developing continuum-level models for soft-material fracture and hydrogen embrittlement in steels—that bridge materials science and computational mechanics. Based in Livermore, CA, he brings uncommon cross-domain expertise from aerospace shell-structure fracture to national-lab scale optimization problems, enabling predictive models for challenging failure modes.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (32)
simulation10
cpp10
computational-science9
hpc9
parallel-computing9
scientific-computing9
amr9
jax8
gradient7
gpu7
mechanics7
jit7
astrodynamics6
snl-applications6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
btalamini/optimism
Dec 2021 - Nov 2025
Computational solid mechanics made easy with Jax
Contributions:8 PRs, 105 pushes, 65 branches in 3 years 11 months
physicspythonsolid-mechanicsautomatic-differentiationastrodynamics
sandialabs/optimism
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Computational solid mechanics made easy with Jax
Contributions:31 reviews, 143 commits, 51 PRs in 8 months
jaxsnl-science-libsscr-2709
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