Raphaël Pestourie
Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRaphaël Pestourie is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech and a computational scientist with a decade of experience translating engineering problems into large-scale optimization and inverse-design solutions. Trained as a PhD in Applied Mathematics at Harvard and seasoned by postdoctoral work at MIT, he builds fast approximate PDE solvers and scientific machine learning models that fuse data and physics for resource-efficient, end-to-end co-design. His research tackles extreme-scale challenges—such as inverse design in electromagnetism with up to a billion parameters—and blends topology/shape optimization with surrogate modeling to accelerate real-world engineering workflows. He has a multidisciplinary background spanning quantum- and nano-scale physics, quantitative research, and teaching, which lets him pivot ideas between theory, computation, and industry. Based in Atlanta, he actively recruits collaborators and students to scale these methods for hardware-software co-design and large-scale optimization. An understated strength is his track record of adapting deep physics intuition into practical computational pipelines usable by practitioners beyond academia.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Research, Nanosciences, Master of Research, Nanosciences at Université Paris-SaclayMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Management, Finance, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Management, Finance, General at ESSEC - ESSEC Business SchoolMaster's Degree, Nanoscience, Master's Degree, Nanoscience at Ecole Centrale ParisBaccalauréat Scientific, Secondary Education and Teaching, A-Levels with very high honors, Baccalauréat Scientific, Secondary Education and Teaching, A-Levels with very high honors at Academy of VersaillesNotre-Dame du GrandchampDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Mathematics at Harvard UniversityMaster Thesis, Physics, Master Thesis, Physics at UC Berkeley
French, English, German, Chinese, Russian
Github Skills (18)
calibration9
estimate9
uncertainty8
recall7
uncertainty-quantification7
ensembles6
extensible5
machine-learning5
artificial-intelligence5
data-science3
multidimensional3
regression2
julia2
interpolation1
physics-informed-neural-networks1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rpestourie/fdfd_local_field
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
rpestourie/scientific-ai-gt2024
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Website for the workshop on Foundation of scientific AI for optimization of complex systems held at Georgia Tech on January 16th, 2024.
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 2 branches in 19 days
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