Shreyas Seethalla
Doctoral Student at Columbia University
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolShreyas Seethalla is a computational plasma physicist and PhD student at Columbia University with nine years of experience bridging physics and high-performance software development. He has practical expertise optimizing stellarator equilibria with novel objective functions and running free-boundary and field-line tracing codes for divertor design, and has benchmarked hybrid kinetic plasma models in the Gkeyll framework at PPPL. Proficient in Python, C++, Fortran, Java, and HPC workflows, he combines hands-on simulation development with reproducible Jupyter-based tooling. A seasoned mentor from his RPI days, he pairs strong pedagogy with applied research—e.g., adapting PKPM hybrid models to reproduce Large Plasma Device behavior—which reflects an aptitude for translating cutting-edge theory into robust computational experiments.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Columbia University
Chinese, Telugu
Github Skills (12)
robot-controller5
controller5
robot5
robotics4
science4
machine-learning-models4
machine-learning3
python3
data-science2
golang2
android1
android-studio1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NBCRobotics/SkyStone
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
FTC 5387 Robot Controller for the 2019-2020 FIRST Tech Challenge Season
Contributions:82 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
roboticscontrollerftcrobotseason
KasaiYuki/UETOOLS-Reactor
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Used for reactor design class (Fall 2024)
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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