Valeria Barra
Assistant Professor Of Mathematics And Computational Science
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValeria Barra is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computational Science with a PhD in Applied Mathematics and eight years of experience bridging numerical analysis, scientific computing, and computational geometry. Her career spans academia and industry—from a postdoc focused on high-performance libraries for exascale discretizations to developing numerical solvers for a next-generation climate model at Caltech’s CliMA project. She brings practical C++ and algorithmic expertise from a Pixar research internship where she built fluid-simulation libraries for curved surfaces, and has taught and mentored across graduate and undergraduate courses. A first-generation, low-income student who studied internationally, she combines intellectual curiosity with persistent, opportunity-driven career moves that emphasize both rigorous theory and production-quality research software.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Applied Mathematics at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyLiceo Scientifico "Galileo Galilei" di SienaMaster's degree Mathematical Sciences, Master's degree Mathematical Sciences at Università di Siena
English, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (78)
gpu10
extensible10
fluid-dynamics10
optimization10
pde10
code-library10
api10
noaa10
root-finding10
ocean10
julia10
soil10
carbon-emissions10
cuda10
atmosphere10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
valeriabarra/ThinViscoelasticFilms
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 release, 105 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
valeriabarra/libCEED
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
The CEED API Library: Code for Efficient Extensible Discretizations
Contributions:68 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 6 months
apimachine-learningapi-libraryextensibleceed
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