Presenter

Takashi Shimokawabe is currently an associate professor at Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo. His primary research interests are GPU computation of physical simulation and computational fluid dynamics, and high performance computing. He is focusing on the development of high-definition fluid simulations using adaptive mesh refinement. He is currently the application group leader of the RIKEN team for the feasibility studies on next-generation supercomputing infrastructures in Japan. His group was awarded the 2011 Gordon Bell Prize Special Achievements in Scalability and Time-to-Solution for peta-scale phase-field simulations. He received Ph.D. in Energy Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in 2012. He graduated with M.S. in Physics from Tokyo Tech in 2007.