Ravishankar Sundararaman
Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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.
13 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 (22)
density-functional-theory10
theory10
simulation9
science8
lammps8
smithy7
electrochemistry7
pure-python7
python7
math6
dft6
algebra6
computer-algebra-system5
computer-algebra5
conda3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shankar1729/jdftx
Aug 2012 - Jan 2023
JDFTx: software for joint density functional theory
Contributions:1 review, 1628 commits, 13 PRs in 10 years 6 months
jointdensity-functional-theorytheorydensity
shankar1729/qimpy
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Quantum-Integrated Multi-PhYsics
Contributions:538 commits, 5 PRs, 321 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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