Yuri Omelchenko, Chief Architect

Dr. Omelchenko is a recognized expert in computational plasma physics and high-performance scientific computing. He has made seminal contributions to the theory of ionospheric phenomena, magnetized ion rings and compact field-reversed configurations (FRCs). Dr. Omelchenko developed a number of state-of-the-art, object-oriented codes for modeling space and fusion plasmas on massively parallel platforms at Cornell and General Atomics. He spearheaded the development of structured adaptive mesh refinement (SAMR) simulation software for radiation-hardened semiconductor devices at Dynamics Research Corporation. He is leading the design and development of novel numerical algorithms and object-oriented parallel infrastructure for multi-dimensional discrete-event and SAMR simulation software targeting a broad range of particle-in-cell, magnetohydrodynamics and fluid dynamics applications.

Dr. Omelchenko received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He did his post-doctoral studies at Cornell University.