Ellad Tadmor
Co-Founder at KIM Initiative
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEllad Tadmor is a professor and entrepreneur who blends deep academic expertise in multiscale materials modeling with practical software engineering and open-source stewardship. As Director and founding force behind the NSF-backed OpenKIM project, he builds infrastructure that makes atomistic simulations reliable, reproducible, and interoperable with major codes, and has contributed directly to flagship tools like LAMMPS. With a PhD from Brown and more than 65 publications plus two graduate textbooks, he pioneers theories and simulation methods for materials and 2D nanodevices while translating them into production-ready code. Now co-founding Matterstack, he pairs decades of research on continuum–atomistic connections with hands-on back-end development experience, including contributions to KIM integrations and performance work in PairSNAP/Kokkos. Based in Minneapolis, he is notable for bridging rigorous statistical‑mechanics foundations with community-driven software standards that elevate the reliability of computational materials science.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING at Brown University
Github Skills (7)
lammps10
c-language10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
cprogramming-language10
molecular-simulation10
dynamics10
k9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lammps/lammps
Jun 2019 - Feb 2021
Public development project of the LAMMPS MD software package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ellad contributed to the LAMMPS MD software package by merging branches and modifying code. Their work involved updating input processing, specifically related to file handling, and changing unit definitions within the KIM (Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models) module. Additionally, they integrated changes from the master branch and made documentation revisions for the `kim` command, focusing on its integration and web query functions. The user also made several adjustments in the Kokkos implementation for the PairSNAP potential, demonstrating a deep involvement in the project's core functionalities.
lammpsmolecular-dynamicssimulationkokkos
openkim/openkim-properties
May 2014 - Mar 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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