Vishnu Raghuraman
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Savoy, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishnu Raghuraman is a physicist and computational materials scientist with nine years of experience developing and applying DFT, Monte Carlo, and molecular dynamics techniques to a broad range of materials from crystalline alloys to organic semiconductors. Currently a postdoctoral research associate at UIUC, he builds novel methods and software to capture coupled electronic and morphological behavior in doped organic semiconductors. His work at Oak Ridge included porting first-principles electrical resistivity calculations to run at extreme scale on Frontier (16,000 GPUs), demonstrating both high-performance coding and practical scalability. Trained with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon and an engineering physics background from IIT Delhi, he combines deep theory with hands-on simulation and code development. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex physical models into efficient, production-ready tools that bridge atomistic insight and device-relevant predictions.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (9)
theory9
diffraction7
python7
particle-physics7
random-walk7
high-energy-physics7
materials-informatics6
julia5
scalable4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vishnu2709/lsms
Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
LSMS is a code for scalable first principles calculations of materials using multiple scattering theory.
Contributions:3 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 5 months
vishnu2709/MuST
Feb 2020 - Jun 2024
Multiple Scattering Theory code for first principles calculations
Contributions:46 PRs, 192 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 4 months
pythonprinciplesfirst-principles-calculationscalculationsmultiple-scattering
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