Summary
Shantanu Shahane is a software engineer at Google Research with 11 years of experience building high-performance scientific computing systems that bridge CFD, machine learning, and urban mobility analysis. He develops TensorFlow/JAX-based CFD tooling optimized for GPUs and TPUs, coupling ML with numerical solvers to boost prediction accuracy and runtime efficiency, and has done low-level kernel benchmarking to accelerate finite-difference operations. His work also spans city-scale traffic simulation and congestion mitigation using Google Maps data, calibration with real-world datasets, and optimization techniques. A Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UIUC and former postdoc at NCSA, he combines deep numerical methods expertise with practical parallel-programming skills and a decade of peer-reviewed publications. Notably, he applies ML not just as a modeler but as an instrument to redesign core simulation kernels for modern accelerators.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, Marathi