Ravishankar Sundararaman
Professor at nOhm Devices, Inc.
City of Troy, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRavishankar Sundararaman is a materials scientist and computational physicist with 13 years of experience building predictive electronic-structure tools for nanoscale energy, electronics, and photonics applications. As lead developer of the open-source JDFTx project and a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he bridges rigorous theory with usable software that accelerates research and device design. He co-founded nOhm Devices to translate computational insights into real-world energy storage solutions, reflecting a strong thread of entrepreneurship. Trained with a PhD in Physics from Cornell and postdoctoral work at Caltech, he is known for combining deep first-principles expertise with pragmatic code development that enables reproducible, community-driven science.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Cornell University
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (15)
density-functional-theory10
simulation9
lammps8
dft6
python6
science6
math4
openmpi3
conda3
computer-algebra3
computer-algebra-system3
jupyterlab-extension3
jupyter-extension1
lmod1
jupyter1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shankar1729/ChargeHoppingMC
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:69 commits, 19 pushes in 4 years 7 months
shankar1729/qimpy
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Quantum-Integrated Multi-PhYsics
Contributions:538 commits, 7 PRs, 327 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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