Summary
Nicholas Battista is a tenured associate professor of Mathematics and Statistics at The College of New Jersey with 11 years of experience blending computational research, teaching, and open-source software development. His work centers on computational fluid dynamics, uncertainty quantification, surrogate modeling, and machine learning to probe ecobiomechanics and fluid–structure interactions in marine and biological systems. He maintains a widely used GitHub portfolio of research and educational codes, reflecting a strong commitment to reproducible science and pedagogy. A seasoned instructor and mentor, he has designed courses and modules from numerical analysis to mathematical biology and co-taught industry-focused machine learning intensives. Unusually for an academic, he pairs deep theoretical expertise with hands-on CFD experiments and software engineering, enabling cross-disciplinary collaborations from cardiogenesis to wind turbine modeling.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Applied Mathematics, Computational Applied Mathematics at Stony Brook University
M.S., Applied and Computational Mathematics, M.S., Applied and Computational Mathematics at Rochester Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill