Issam Said is a Senior Manager and DevTech Engineer at NVIDIA with a decade of experience accelerating energy and geophysics applications on GPUs and other accelerators. He blends a PhD in Computational Science with hands-on expertise in CUDA, OpenCL, OpenACC, MPI and Fortran to optimize numerical solvers, inverse-waveform methods and seismic imaging workflows for high-performance and AI-driven pipelines. At NVIDIA he progressed from Solutions Architect to leading solutions for the energy sector, routinely assessing new hardware architectures and programming models to maximize scientific productivity. Known for porting demanding simulation codes to GPUs and even evaluating FPGA systems early in his career, he pairs deep applied-math insight with practical software engineering. Based in Dubai, he equally contributes to applied deep-learning integrations and explores novel numerical approaches that bridge geophysics and ML.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Houston
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Science at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Master's degree, Distributed Systems and Applications, Master's degree, Distributed Systems and Applications at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Télécom ParisTech
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Pierre and Marie Curie University
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Issam Said - Sr. Manager, DevTech Engineer at NVIDIA