Victoria Clark
Ocean Modeler at atdepth
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictoria Clark is an ocean modeler with five years of research and applied experience, combining a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland with hands-on development of high-performance ocean simulation code. She has contributed backend features to the prominent Julia-based Oceananigans.jl project—implementing immersed boundary capabilities and example workflows for flow-around-cylinder simulations—bridging numerical methods and practical modeling use cases. At atdepth she develops and validates new modeling capabilities for an Ocean Digital Twin, leveraging domain expertise to identify critical physics and ensure robust assumptions. Her background spans laboratory experiments on stratified fluids and imaging-based materials analysis, giving her a rare mix of experimental intuition and computational rigor. Based in Silver Spring, MD, she is comfortable shipping GPU-accelerated scientific software and translating complex fluid dynamics into reproducible, well-documented code.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Applied Mathematics at University of MarylandBachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (5)
computational-fluid-dynamics10
fluid-dynamics10
julia10
clim9
gpu8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CliMA/Oceananigans.jl
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
🌊 Julia software for fast, friendly, flexible, ocean-flavored fluid dynamics on CPUs and GPUs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 66 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Victoria primarily contributed to the implementation of Immersed Boundary (IB) capabilities within the Oceananigans.jl project. Their work included adding and modifying code related to correcting velocity and tracer tendencies, integrating IB steps into the Runge-Kutta3 timestepper, and incorporating IB options into the IncompressibleModel. They also created an example demonstrating flow around a cylinder using the new IB features, including plotting and analysis of results. Furthermore, the user has made adjustments to better fit the code to follow conventions.
flavoredclimategpuoceanfluid
whitleyv/whitleyv.github.io
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Github Pages for academic personal website, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:94 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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