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Juan J. Alonso is the Vance D. and Arlene C. Coffman Professor and the James and Anna Marie Spilker Chair of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he specializes in the development of HPC-based high-fidelity computational analysis and design techniques to enable the creation of realizable, efficient, and sustainable aerospace systems. He is also the CTO and co-founder of Luminary Cloud, Inc., a startup company revolutionizing multi-physics engineering simulations through cloud-based GPU computing.

Alonso is the author of over 300 technical publications on the topics of computational aircraft and spacecraft design, multi-disciplinary optimization, fundamental numerical methods, and high-performance parallel computing. During the 2006–2009 period, Alonso was the director of the NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Program in Washington, D.C. In that position he was responsible for the entire portfolio of aerospace vehicle and vehicle technology research for the agency in the subsonic rotary wing, subsonic fixed wing, supersonic, and hypersonic regimes, with particular emphasis on the energy and fuel efficiency of the aviation enterprise and its environmental impact. Alonso earned his PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University and his BS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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