Profile
Research interests include computational physics, physical oceanography, quasi-geostrophic shallow-water dynamics, vortex methods, numerical simulation, parallel computing, scientific ML, and interfaces for advanced simulation tools.
CV / computational physics / ocean dynamics
Hoda Hashemi
Computational physicist working in geophysical fluid dynamics, ocean dynamics, numerical modeling, CUDA/HPC, MITgcm workflows, and LLM/RAG tools for scientific code.
Education
MSc, Computational Science
American University of Beirut. Optimization, GPU computing, statistical learning, finite elements, and vortex methods.
BS, Theoretical Physics; Minor, Pure Mathematics
American University of Beirut. Analysis, differential equations, algebra, manifolds, probability, and numerical computing.
Exchange Program
Pitzer College, Claremont, California. Statistical physics, French, and R programming.
Research and projects
MITgcm simulations of atmosphere-ocean dynamics
Simulation workflows and numerical experiments based on atmosphere-ocean climate dynamics.
Vortex-in-cell model for QG shallow water on the sphere
Computational modeling for quasi-geostrophic shallow-water equations over spherical geometry.
Agentic system for MITgcm
LLM/RAG interface for querying documentation, modifying code, and executing simulations through natural language.
Needleman-Wunsch on CUDA
Parallel implementation using CUDA and Octopus HPC, with reduction trees, stencils, coarsening, and occupancy optimization.