Elwin Van T Wout
Associate Professor
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
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Top SchoolElwin Van T Wout is an Associate Professor and applied mathematician with a decade of experience developing high-performance numerical algorithms for biomedical engineering and climate science. He specializes in fast boundary element methods and preconditioning techniques for high-frequency wave propagation, with practical impact on focused ultrasound treatment planning and acoustic scattering simulations. At Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile he leads interdisciplinary projects that combine numerical analysis, machine learning, and large-scale computing to study past climates and forecast extreme events like heat waves. His background includes core contributions to the open-source BEMPP project and industry-facing CFD and electromagnetic scattering work, reflecting a rare blend of rigorous theory, software engineering, and translational applications.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (9)
python-bindings10
optimus10
propagation9
wave9
cluster-computing8
python7
finite-element-analysis6
homebrew1
bem1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
optimuslib/optimus
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
The official repository of OptimUS: a Python library for solving 3D acoustic wave propagation.
Contributions:2 releases, 12 reviews, 58 commits in 5 months
python-librarypropagationpythonsolvingacoustic-wave
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