About — CV
Hoda Hashemi
Computational Physicist · American University of Beirut
Hoda — /huː.dʌ/ — “who?-duh!”
My work sits where continuous physics meets discrete computation: translating the equations of geophysical flow into stable, fast, inspectable numerical systems — and building the tools that make those systems easier to drive.
- Location
- Beirut, Lebanon
- GitHub
- github.com/Hoda-Hashemi
- hoda-hashemi
Education
2023 — present
M.Sc. Computational Science
American University of Beirut
Optimization, GPU computing, statistical learning, finite elements, vortex methods.
2019 — 2023
B.Sc. Theoretical Physics · Minor in Pure Mathematics
American University of Beirut
Analysis, differential equations, algebra, manifolds, probability, numerical computing.
2021 — 2022
Exchange Program
Pitzer College, Claremont CA
Statistical physics, French, and R programming.
Research
2025 — present
Graduate Research Assistant
Microflows & Microscale Heat Transfer Lab, AUB
Numerical modeling of microscale flow and heat-transfer systems.
2024 — present
MITgcm Simulations of Atmosphere–Ocean Dynamics
Research project
Simulation workflows and numerical experiments in climate dynamics.
2024 — present
Vortex-in-Cell QGSW on the Sphere
M.Sc. research
Computational modeling of quasi-geostrophic shallow-water equations over spherical geometry.
Selected projects
2025
Agentic System for MITgcm
LLM/RAG interface for querying documentation, modifying code, and executing simulations in natural language.
2024
Needleman–Wunsch on CUDA
Parallel implementation on CUDA + Octopus HPC with reduction trees, stencils, coarsening, occupancy optimization.
2023
Diffusion–Convection PDE on a T-Membrane
Finite-element and Galerkin analysis in FreeFem and MATLAB with numerical–analytical comparison.
2023
Inference of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Data assimilation for the Van der Pol oscillator via adjoint-based BFGS and Bayesian optimization.
Stack
Languages
- Python
- Julia
- Fortran
- C/C++
- MATLAB
- R
HPC
- CUDA
- Slurm
- MPI basics
- Profiling
Scientific
- MITgcm
- FreeFem++
- FEM
- Vortex methods
- Data assimilation
Tooling
- LLM/RAG
- Git
- LaTeX
- Linux