Mahesh Natarajan
Computer Systems Engineer at Berkeley Lab
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolMahesh Natarajan is a Computer Systems Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and over a decade of experience building high-performance solvers for compressible and multiphase flows. He specializes in adaptive mesh refinement (AMReX), immersed boundary methods, adjoint-based optimization, and machine learning–augmented CFD, combining deep theory with production-grade HPC implementation. His career spans national labs and academia including NASA, NREL, and Cornell, where he translated research prototypes into scalable simulation tools. Based in Mountain View, he brings a rare blend of numerical analysis, software engineering, and practical performance tuning that speeds large-scale flow simulations on modern supercomputers.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering at University of CalicutDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (55)
mpi10
energy10
cluster-computing10
petsc10
openmp10
snl-applications10
parallel-computing10
amr10
scientific-computing10
hpc9
forecasting9
multiphysics9
scientific-visualization8
python8
simulations8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nataraj2/ERF
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Energy Research and Forecasting Model
Contributions:594 pushes, 96 branches in 1 year 8 months
nataraj2/BlenderScriptingForCFD
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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