Felipe Cruz (PhD 2011)

Felipe Cruz, on a visit to NASA Ames, May 2009.

Felipe Cruz was a visiting student in Bristol, UK, from Sept. 2006 to July 2007, under a grant from Prof. Barba's EC-funded project "Scientific Computing Advanced Training, SCAT". At the time, he was a MSc student in computer engineering from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, in Valparaíso, Chile.

He became Prof. Barba's PhD student in 2007 at Bristol University. His research was funded by a grant to Barba from BAE Systems & Airbus UK. Felipe graduated in 2011 with a PhD in Applied Mathematics.

Updates

After graduating, Felipe became a postdoctoral researcher at the Nagasaki Advanced Computing Center, under the supervision of Prof. Tsuyoshi Hamada. He finished his position there in July 2013, when he became a lead researcher in Square Enix (the Japanese video game company). In 2016, he took a position as a Computational Scientist at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center.

References

• "Characterization of the accuracy of the fast multipole method in particle simulations", Felipe A. Cruz, L. A. Barba. Int. J. Num. Meth. Engrg., 79(13):1577–1604 (May 2009). 10.1002/nme.2611 // Preprint arXiv:0809.1810
• "PetFMM–A dynamically load-balancing parallel fast multipole library", Felipe A. Cruz, Matthew G. Knepley, L. A. Barba. Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng., 85(4):403–428 (January 2011). 10.1002/nme.2972 // Preprint arXiv:0905.2637
• "How to obtain efficient GPU kernels: an illustration using FMM & FGT", Felipe A. Cruz, Simon K. Layton, L. A. Barba. Comput. Phys. Commun., 182(10):2084–2098 (October 2011). 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.05.002 // Preprint arXiv:1009.3457