Jay Foulk
Distinguished Member Of The Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolJay Foulk is a Product Owner and senior technical leader at Sandia National Laboratories with 13+ years of experience translating cutting‑edge computational mechanics research into robust simulation software. He combines deep expertise in fracture mechanics, multiscale/multiphysics coupling, and tetrahedral finite elements with a track record of developing hardened 10‑node composite elements and mesh‑adaptivity approaches published in IJNME. Jay has led multidisciplinary teams—researchers, code developers, analysts, and experimentalists—to tackle hydrogen embrittlement, material inelasticity, and localization, and now focuses on packaging complex production environments while driving novel FEM technologies. Based in Livermore, he pairs rigorous PhD‑level mechanics insight with practical product stewardship for national‑interest simulation capabilities, and continues to explore in‑core methods for resolving deformation localization.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science (MS), Aerospace Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (7)
snl-applications10
multiphysics10
trilinos1
python1
mechanics1
physics1
react1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jtostie/Mechanics-Papers
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:14 pushes in 5 months
sandialabs/Albany
Feb 2013 - Sep 2017
Sandia National Laboratories' Albany multiphysics code
Contributions:201 commits, 151 pushes, 21 comments in 4 years 7 months
multiphysicsscr-1341snl-applicationssnl-science-libs
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