Summit Speaker

Dan Negrut received his Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Iowa. He spent six years working as a software developer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2004 he served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He spent 2005 as a Visiting Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. At the end of 2005 Dan joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His interests are in Computational Science, and he co-leads the Simulation-Based Engineering Lab (http://sbel.wisc.edu). Lab sponsors include National Science Foundation, NASA, US Army Research Office, Department of Transportation, and NIOSH. The lab's projects focus on high performance computing, computational dynamics, terramechanics, simulation-in-robotics, fluid-solid interaction, computer vision, computer graphics. Dan received a National Science Foundation Career Award in 2009. Since 2010 he is an NVIDIA CUDA Fellow. He is one of the technical leads of Project Chrono, an open-source multi-physics simulation platform (http://www.projectchrono.org/).