Summary
Zhonghua Ma is an associate professor and computational scientist with 16 years of experience specializing in high-performance CPU/GPU parallel computing using MPI, OpenMP, and CUDA. His work bridges academia and applied research, developing multi-GPU wavefield modeling codes for elastic, viscoelastic and anisotropic media during a postdoc at China University of Geosciences and continuing GPU-enabled research and teaching at Tianjin University of Technology and Education. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Electronic Engineering and earlier training in solid geophysics and computing science, which gives him a rare blend of domain knowledge in seismic wave physics and hands-on parallel implementation. Known for scaling forward modeling across massive domain partitions, he combines numerical rigor with practical experience porting codes across Windows and Linux GPU clusters.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Electronic Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Electronic Engineering at China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
Master's Degree, Solid Geophysics, Master's Degree, Solid Geophysics at Lanzhou Institute of Seismology
Bachelor's Degree, Information and Computing Science, Bachelor's Degree, Information and Computing Science at Daqing Petroleum Institute