Michael Howard
Assistant Professor at Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Howard is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Auburn University with 11 years of research and teaching experience studying soft matter and complex fluids, especially out of equilibrium and under flow. He combines multiscale simulations on massively parallel HPC systems with open-source GPU-accelerated scientific software development to probe material behavior across orders of magnitude in length and time. Trained at Princeton (Ph.D.) and Penn State (B.S.), he has a track record spanning graduate research, a postdoc at UT Austin, and independent lab leadership. Known as an independent problem-solver and collaborative team player, he bridges fundamental theory, computational methods, and practical software engineering to enable reproducible, high-performance research. An under-the-radar strength is his fluency in translating physics-driven questions into portable GPU-optimized code that accelerates community research.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at Penn State UniversityPh.D., Ph.D. at Princeton University
Github Skills (35)
simulation10
docker10
particle-system10
python10
singularity10
simulations10
vmd10
gpu10
cuda10
monte-carlo10
lammps9
reader9
conda9
computational-chemistry8
spatial-analysis8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mphowardlab/lammpsio
Sep 2021 - Jun 2026
Python tools for working with LAMMPS files
Contributions:11 releases, 109 reviews, 80 PRs in 4 years 10 months
lammpspythonmolecular-dynamics
mphowardlab/azplugins
Dec 2016 - Nov 2022
A HOOMD-blue component for soft matter simulations.
Contributions:3 releases, 98 reviews, 173 commits in 5 years 11 months
soft-matterbluesimulationssimulationhoomd
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