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Dr. Joe Schoonover, Owner, Research Software Engineer
Joe Schoonover is a scientist and research software engineer at Fluid Numerics. He received a Bachelor's of Science degree in Applied Mathematics & Physics in 2011 and a PhD in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics in 2016 from Florida State University. From 2016-2017, Dr. Schoonover held a post-doctoral research position at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Center for Nonlinear Studies, where he studied topographic wave arrest as a mechanism for western boundary current separation, transport operator diagnosis through impulse functions and graph theory, climate model equilibration acceleration strategies, and high performance computing. Joe's current research focus is in spectral element methods, physical oceanography, and environmental fluid dynamics and he has a continued interest in portable GPU programming and scientific application modernization. He maintains access to a variety of compute resources through collaborations with colleagues at national laboratories, universities, and hardware vendors and maintains and operates research computing resources on public cloud.
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Dr. Elizabeth Simons, Owner, Scientist
Elizabeth Simons is a scientist at Fluid Numerics. She received her Bachelor's of Science degree in Applied Mathematics & Physics in 2011 and a PhD in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics in 2019 from Florida State University. During her graduate studies, Dr. Simons participated in numerous oceanographic cruises focusing on repeat hydrography to study our ocean's place in climate change. Elizabeth enjoys planning and engaging in field campaigns that help shed light on the physical dynamics of coastal and estuarine environments and the impacts this has for local communities. Her current interests are in designing and deploying solar powered instrumentation that can be remotely deployed to monitor our environment and can engage artists in the communication process of scientific research.
Garrett Byrd, Research Software Engineer
Garrett Byrd is a research software engineer at Fluid Numerics. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022. Garrett is currently working on his Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga and works as a graduate research assistant studying computational fluid dynamics. His research currently focuses on unsteady Stokes flow, and the ground-up implementation of various computational methods for partial differential equations. Garrett has an active interest in many areas of programming, including scientific/cloud computing, data analysis, and front-end development, and has a continued interest in the development of client-focused scientific computing applications and systems.