Homa Karimabadi, CEO / CTO

Dr. Karimabadi is the founder of SciberQuest and co-founder of three other startups including Aitria Technologies.  He has a unique combination of expertise in supercomputing techniques and information technology as well as strategic analysis and business management.  As a scientist, he is recognized for key discoveries in several fields and acted as a consultant for SAIC. He has published over 70 articles in scientific journals on a wide range of topics including cosmology, chaos theory, space plasmas, numerical algorithms, and solar physics.   On the business side, he guided the strategic planning and business development for a venture funded internet start-up, including formulation/presentation of business models.  He also worked as a lead strategist for an Internet Incubator founded by a McKinsey Partner.  In addition to his role as the CEO/CTO at SciberQuest, Inc., Dr. Karimabadi is also heading the space physics plasma simulation group at UCSD.

He received his B.S. in mathematics and astronomy from UC Berkeley and his PhD in plasma astrophysics from the University of Maryland.

Selected Whitepapers:

Space Physics

• Antiparallel versus component merging at the magnetopause:Current bifurcation and intermittent reconnection
• Physics of saturation of collisionless tearing mode
• Ion-ion Kink Instability in the Magnetotail: 1. Linear Theory
• Ion-ion Kink Instability in the Magnetotail: 2. Three-dimensional full particle and hybrid simulations and comparison with observations
• Dipolar Magnetospheres and their Characterization as a Function of Magnetic Moment
• Kinetic theory of collisionless tearing at the magnetopause
• Role of Electron Temperature Anisotropy in the Onset of Magnetic Reconnection
• Global Hybrid Simulations of Solar Wind Interaction with Mercury: Magnetospheric Boundaries
• On magnetic reconnection regimes and associated three-dimensional asymmetries: hybrid, hall-less hybrid, and Hall MHD simulations
• One the Generation and Structure of the Quadrupole Magnetic Field in the Reconnection Process: Comparative Simulation Study
• Physics of Intermediate Shocks: A Review

Discrete Event Simulations

• A New Asynchronous Methodology for Modeling of Physical Systems: Breaking the Curse of Courant Condition

• A New Simulation Technique for Study of Collisionless Shocks: Self-adaptive Simulations

• Optimistic Simulations of Physical Systems Using Reverse Computation

• Parallel Discrete Event Simulations of Grid-based Models: Asynchronous Electromagnetic Hybrid Code

• Self-adaptive Time Integration of Flux-conservative Equations with Sources

• Event-Driven Hybrid Particle-in-Cell Simulation: A New Paradigm for Multi-Scale Plasma Modeling

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