David Khatami
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Khatami is a graduate student researcher in theoretical and computational astrophysics at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, with nine years of experience applying analytic theory and high-performance simulations to problems in radiative transfer, radiation hydrodynamics, plasma and nuclear physics. He focuses on modeling explosive stellar phenomena—especially supernovae—producing synthetic observations that connect simulations to real data while preparing codes and methods for exascale supercomputing. His work blends pen-and-paper theory with hands-on development of radiation-hydrodynamics algorithms and tools (including the TWILIGHT framework he developed as an undergrad) to tackle radiative feedback and observational signatures. Based in Berkeley, he brings a rare mix of deep astrophysical intuition, practical HPC implementation experience, and an eye for observational validation.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at Pomona College
German, Japanese, English
Github Skills (17)
gravity9
radiation9
hydrodynamics8
pde8
simulation7
astrophysics7
amr7
python-bindings5
gpu4
fortran3
bootstrapping2
prefix2
quantile2
fuzzy-logic2
meta-analysis2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dkhatami/Castro
Jun 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:44 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 7 months
meshradiationadaptivesimulationhydrodynamics
dkhatami/Microphysics
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
common astrophysical microphysics routines with interfaces for the different AMReX codes
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
gravitysnl-applicationsastrophysicsastrodynamicsamrex
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