Dave Semeraro
Research Associate
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Semeraro is a research-focused software engineer and visualization specialist with 11+ years at the intersection of large-scale scientific visualization, numerical methods, and distributed computing. Based at TACC in Austin, he develops and deploys software and hardware pipelines for petascale visualization while bringing prior leadership from Blue Waters and Oak Ridge into production-grade parallel algorithms. His background spans applied CFD and aerodynamic modeling to health-data visualization at Dell Medical, giving him a rare blend of domain fluency and systems-level expertise. Skilled in visualization shaders, feature extraction, and web programming, he excels at turning complex numerical workflows into interactive, scalable visual tools. Notably, his career bridges deep academic credentials (PhD CS, UIUC) with hands-on engineering across national labs and university HPC centers.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (24)
rendering9
visualization9
raytracing9
embree8
hardware8
asynchronous8
mpi7
rendering-engine6
3d-rendering6
parallel6
rpm-spec5
kernel5
distributed-computing5
queuing5
cpp3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
semeraro/OSPRay-visualization
Nov 2023 - Jan 2026
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
semeraro/TeXRay
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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