Tony Saad
Associate Professor
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolTony Saad is an Associate Professor and computational scientist with 12 years of experience specializing in thermal and fluid sciences, high-performance computing, and computational fluid dynamics. He develops advanced C++ physics software to simulate reacting and variable-density flows, combining rigorous asymptotic methods and population-balance models with parallel computing for scalable simulation. Based at the University of Utah, he progressed from postdoc to faculty, directing research that bridges theoretical modeling and production-grade code. Known for living at the interface of programming and physics, he brings both deep mechanics training (PhD, University of Tennessee Space Institute) and practical software engineering to tackle complex reacting-flow problems. He often translates analytical insight into optimized HPC implementations, making subtle trade-offs between numerical fidelity and computational efficiency.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering at University of Tennessee Space InstituteBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering at Notre Dame University - Louaize (NDU)Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering at American University of Beirut
French, Arabic, English
Github Skills (11)
synthetic10
condition10
partial9
differential-equations8
simulation8
julia8
grids8
python7
asynchronous7
partial-differential-equations7
theorem6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
saadgroup/TurboGenPY
Apr 2014 - Jun 2019
A synthetic, isotropic turbulence generator for constant density flows that enforces the discrete divergence-free condition.
Contributions:66 commits, 21 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 3 months
flowsdiscretesyntheticdensityjulia
saadtony/ChemPy
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:51 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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