Milinda Fernando
Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMilinda Fernando is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin, with 12 years of experience developing high-performance algorithms and code-generation frameworks for modern heterogeneous supercomputers. His research focuses on making large-scale scientific computing accessible to domain scientists through symbolic interfaces, automatic code generation, and portable, scalable implementations that deliver strong performance across architectures. He applies these methods to computational relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy while producing broadly applicable tooling that has influenced computational fluid dynamics and other simulation domains. Trained with a PhD in Computing from the University of Utah and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, he combines deep theoretical insight with pragmatic software engineering to bridge research and production on next-generation machines.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaThe University of Utah
Github Skills (18)
prng10
hierarchical10
kd-tree10
octree10
space-filling-curves10
partitioning9
equation9
einstein9
heterogeneous8
sympy8
code-generation7
python6
simulation6
simulator6
parallel4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
paralab/Dendro-5.01
Sep 2017 - Apr 2022
Distributed adaptive octree construction, 2:1 balancing & partitioning based on space filling curves
Contributions:2 releases, 111 commits, 94 pushes in 4 years 8 months
prngadaptivepartitioninghierarchicalspace-filling-curves
paralab/Dendro-GR
Jun 2018 - Jul 2022
Numerical relativity with octree based wavelet adaptive mesh refinement.
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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