Summary
Vishal Tiwari is a Ph.D. candidate and Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Tech with 13 years of experience bridging computational science and software engineering. He develops and runs large-scale numerical simulations of circumbinary disks around massive black hole binaries on HPC systems, managing and mining terabytes of simulation data to reveal extreme astrophysical dynamics. His background combines a PhD in Physics, an MS in Physics, and a B.Tech/MSR in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad, enabling him to translate complex physics into performant parallel code. Prior roles span research assistantships and industry experience at Morgan Stanley and HackerRank, giving him practical production and data engineering chops alongside academic rigor. Notably, he has a track record of teaching and mentoring, having served as a TA at Georgia Tech and IIIT Hyderabad, which complements his collaborative research profile.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) and MS by Research in CS, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) and MS by Research in CS at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Master of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth