Ramanan Sankaran
Group Leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolRamanan Sankaran is a computational scientist and group leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with 14 years of experience advancing multiscale materials and computational energy solutions through high-performance computing. He leads the Multiscale Materials Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, translating novel energy conversion concepts into scalable simulations and engineering insights. His background spans CFD leadership at ORNL, postdoctoral research at Sandia, and joint/adjunct faculty roles at the University of Tennessee and Georgia Tech, reflecting a strong bridge between research, HPC facilities, and academia. Ramanan holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and is known for accelerating clean-energy innovation by integrating multiscale modeling with leadership of large computational teams. An often-overlooked strength is his sustained role inside DOE leadership computing environments, giving him rare operational expertise in deploying science at leadership-class HPC scale.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering at University of MichiganMaster’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Tennessee Space Institute
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (16)
abstraction10
parallel-computing9
portability9
cluster-computing9
parallel-processing9
parallel8
cpp8
mpi8
ecosystem8
parallel-execution8
hpc7
react4
trilinos1
mechanism1
reaction1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ramanan/gampi
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 9 months
ramanan/docker-spark
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Docker build for Apache Spark
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 months
docker-builddockerapachesparkapache-spark
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