Sasan Tavakkol is a Staff Software Engineer at Google Research and founder of Celeria Labs, combining nine years of industrial AI engineering with a PhD in Computational Hydrodynamics. He co-leads Google’s Contextual Sampling team and low-latency GraphRAG efforts, applying graph-based inference and data-efficient techniques to frontier foundation models. Earlier work spans tech leadership on scalable mapping and 4D timeline reconstruction, and he shipped performance-critical systems from GPU-accelerated wave simulators to real-time product launches. His open-source Celeris simulator democratized high-performance coastal modeling by running Boussinesq wave physics on GPUs and is used by thousands worldwide—a practical bridge between academic CFD and production software. Based in Irvine, CA, he blends deep domain science in fluid dynamics and GPGPU with hands-on systems design for large-scale AI infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Hydrodynamics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Hydrodynamics at University of Southern California
Amirkabir University of Technology
Diploma, Mathematics and Physics, Diploma, Mathematics and Physics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years
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Sasan Tavakkol - Staff Software Engineer at Celeria Labs