Pavan Poudel
Assistant Professor at University of Houston-Clear Lake
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPavan Poudel is an Assistant Professor and former postdoctoral fellow with 12 years of experience specializing in parallel and distributed computing, transactional memory, and high-performance systems. He earned his Ph.D. from Kent State University, where he designed time-optimal robotic algorithms and developed simulation software for transaction scheduling on multicore and distributed platforms. His work spans academia and research labs—having contributed to MPI/MPICH performance studies at Argonne—and industry roles building MIS solutions and research engineering for applied projects. Based in Houston, he blends theoretical algorithm design with hands-on systems implementation across blockchain, IoT, and robotics, and frequently bridges gaps between concurrency theory and practical system bottlenecks. An understated strength is his ability to translate deep concurrency research into deployable tools and experiments that reveal real-world performance constraints.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Tribhuvan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Kent State University
English, Nepali, Hindi
Github Skills (2)
yellow4
react2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
poudelpavan/mpich
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
Official MPICH Repository
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 49 pushes in 7 months
poudelpavan/graphtm
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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