James Sutherland
Professor at University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJames Sutherland is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah with 12 years in faculty leadership and more than two decades in research and teaching following a postdoctoral stint at Sandia National Laboratories. He brings deep expertise in computational thermal fluids and chemical engineering, translating complex multiphysics problems into teachable, high-impact research. His career progression from assistant to full professor reflects sustained research funding, mentorship of graduate students, and curricular leadership. Based in Salt Lake City, he blends national-lab experience with academic innovation, often bridging applied simulation work and experimental validation. Colleagues note his ability to make computational methods accessible to interdisciplinary teams and to shepherd technologies from lab concept to practical implementation.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (32)
simulation10
jupyter10
jupyterlab10
grids10
differential-equations10
jupyterlab-extension10
jupyter-widget10
partial10
asynchronous9
partial-differential-equations9
python8
ipython-magic8
nbgrader7
binder7
jupyter-notebook7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jcsutherland/scratch
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Uintah/Uintah
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Asynchronous Many Task Framework for set of libraries and applications for simulating and analyzing complex chemical and physical reactions modeled by partial differential equations on structured adaptive grids using hundreds to hundreds of thousands of processors.
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 54 pushes in 2 years 8 months
analyzingequationspythonasynchronouspartial
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