Radu Serban - Visiting Associate Professor

Radu Serban

Visiting Associate Professor

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Radu Serban is a computational dynamics expert and visiting associate professor with 12+ years of applied research and engineering experience at the intersection of multibody dynamics, FEA, and high-performance scientific computing. Based in Madison, he holds senior research roles at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Wisconsin Applied Computing Center and has a long history of advancing sensitivity analysis, adjoint methods, and real-time distributed simulation from national lab to academic settings. He is a core contributor to the Chrono open-source project, where his work on the Chrono::FSI FEA module improved ANCF shell element handling, BCE marker generation, and force/acceleration computations for multiphysics simulations. Radu’s background includes leadership on SUNDIALS-related numerical software at Lawrence Livermore and practical real-time simulation experience from industry, giving him rare fluency across theoretical algorithms, scalable implementation, and production-grade code. He combines deep math and algorithmic insight with hands-on C++ and parallel-computing skills, often finding performance and robustness gains in legacy scientific codebases.

12 years of coding experience

28 years of employment as a software developer

POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at University of Iowa

French, Romanian, English

Github Skills (8)

finite-element-analysis10

mesh10

el10

c-language10

f10

cprogramming-language10

numerical-methods10

cuda9

Programming languages (6)

C++CRustCMakeHTMLRuby

Github contributions (5)

projectchrono/chrono

Jul 2013 - Jan 2023

High-performance C++ library for multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & FEA Specialist

Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 6297 commits in 9 years 8 months

Contributions summary:Radu primarily worked on the Chrono::FSI library, focusing on the FEA (Finite Element Analysis) module. Their contributions involved cleaning up verbose messages, improving bookkeeping related to ANCF (Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation) shell elements, adding new functionalities for generating BCE (Boundary Condition Element) markers for various volumes, and optimizing the computation of forces and accelerations within the FSI framework. They demonstrated expertise in FEA meshing, contact mechanics, and the application of numerical integration methods within the Chrono::FSI codebase.

c-plus-plussimulationroboticssimulationsmultibody

projectchrono/chrono-tutorial

Nov 2014 - Jan 2023

Contributions:74 commits, 1 PR, 79 pushes in 8 years 3 months

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