Rahul Sampath
MODS Engagement Lead - Standards & Scalability at ExxonMobil
Spring, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRahul Sampath is a computational scientist and engineering leader with 17 years of experience applying high-performance computing and numerical methods to large-scale industrial problems. Currently leading MODS Engagement for Standards & Scalability at ExxonMobil and serving as an IT Fellow, he blends hands-on parallel scientific computing expertise with program-level stewardship of HPC standards and delivery. His background spans finite element/difference methods, optimization, meshing, seismic imaging and inversion, and computational mechanics—skills honed through roles from postdoc at Oak Ridge to senior engineering and product ownership at ExxonMobil. Rahul’s career demonstrates a rare combination of deep numerical analysis and practical systems thinking, enabling scalable implementations of complex simulation workflows. Based in Spring, Texas, he pairs a Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech with a proven record of translating research-grade algorithms into production-grade HPC solutions. Colleagues rely on him to bridge domain science, software engineering, and operational scalability in demanding, compute-intensive environments.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and SciencePh.D., Computational Science and Engineering, Ph.D., Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDAV GopalapuramM.S., Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, M.S., Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at University of Pennsylvania
English, Tamil, Hindi
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Github Skills (4)
octree9
sql6
sql-server6
parallel4
Github contributions (1)
hsundar/dendro
Dec 2008 - Aug 2009
Contributions:112 commits in 7 months
parallelmeshingparallel-algorithmsoctree
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