Mathialakan Thavappiragasam
MTS, Math Libraries
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMathialakan Thavappiragasam is a computational engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance simulation and math library solutions for heterogeneous HPC systems, currently contributing to AMD’s Math Libraries team. He holds a PhD in ECE/Computational Mathematics from Michigan State and has advanced expertise in task-based parallelism, CPU–GPU coordination, and performance-portable code demonstrated at Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilities. His work spans high-order electromagnetic solvers, Fortran/OpenMP offload, and multi-GPU scheduling, with a knack for squeezing both accuracy and energy efficiency from large-scale scientific applications. Comfortable across languages and domains from bioinformatics pipelines to LAMMPS optimizations, he blends deep research with production-focused engineering. A practical problem solver, he has a track record of porting and optimizing legacy codes for emerging architectures—most recently enabling Flash-X on Intel GPU systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. (Hons), Computer Science, BSc. (Hons), Computer Science at University of JaffnaMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at The University of South DakotaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computational Mathematics Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computational Mathematics Science and Engineering at Michigan State UniversityA/L, Mathematics, A/L, Mathematics at J/Mahajana College
English, Tamil
Github Skills (23)
docking7
pdb-files7
pdb6
ising-model5
dynamics5
seed5
python5
sparse5
folding4
backend4
hip3
opencl3
cuda3
sequence3
simulations3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ORNL-PE/miniMDock
May 2021 - Jun 2022
A molecular docking mini app
Contributions:71 commits, 1 PR, 72 pushes in 1 year 1 month
molecularmolecular-dockingdockingmini-app
BSDExabio/CCMpred-on-Summit
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
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