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
Aug 2023 - Aug 2026
M.Sc. Computational Science
American University of Beirut
Optimization techniques, discrete models for differential equations, GPU computing, statistical learning, finite elements, and vortex methods.
Aug 2019 - May 2023
B.Sc. Theoretical Physics · Minor in Pure Mathematics
American University of Beirut
Analysis, differential equations, algebra, manifolds, probability, numerical computing.
Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Exchange Program
Pitzer College, Claremont CA
Statistical physics, French, and R programming.
Research
Jul 2026 - Current
Arabic LLMs: Graphemes, Phonemes, and Agentic Systems
American University of Beirut
Developing Arabic LLM methods that bridge graphemes and phonemes, with an agentic system that orchestrates the pipeline.
Aug 2025 - Aug 2026
Graduate Research Assistant
Microflows and Microscale Heat Transfer Laboratory, AUB
Analyzing vorticity dynamics, energy transfer, and potential-vorticity conservation in QGSW models with numerical and grid-free methods.
Aug 2024 - Aug 2026
MITgcm Simulations of Atmosphere–Ocean Dynamics
M.Sc. research
Using MITgcm to reproduce and analyze atmosphere-ocean dynamics cases, including published Williamson shallow-water verification results.
May 2024 - Aug 2026
Particle-in-Cell TRSWE on the Sphere
M.Sc. thesis work
Selective PIC formulation for thermal rotating shallow-water equations on the sphere, extending earlier QG vortex-in-cell work with particle-carried PV and elliptic inversion.
Selected projects
Jul 2026 - Current
Arabic LLMs: Grapheme-Phoneme Agentic Systems
Large language model methods for Arabic grapheme-phoneme bridging with an agentic orchestration pipeline.
Apr 2025 - May 2025
Agentic System for MITgcm
LLM/RAG interface for querying documentation, modifying code, and executing simulations in natural language.
Aug 2024 - Aug 2026
MITgcm Williamson Verification Dashboard
Published HTML results for Williamson shallow-water tests, CFL checks, conservation diagnostics, and initialization runs.
Mar 2024 - May 2024
Needleman–Wunsch on CUDA
Parallel implementation on CUDA + Octopus HPC with reduction trees, stencils, coarsening, occupancy optimization.
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024
2D Crack Propagation with ABAQUS/XFEM
Wellbore-cement crack propagation using XFEM, J-integrals, 2D shell modeling, and Julia scripts.
Nov 2023 - Dec 2023
Diffusion–Convection PDE on a T-Membrane
Finite-element and Galerkin analysis in FreeFem and MATLAB with numerical–analytical comparison.
Feb 2023 - May 2023
Inference of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Data assimilation for the Van der Pol oscillator via adjoint-based BFGS and Bayesian optimization.
Stack
AI / ML
- LLMs
- RAG
- Agentic systems
- Prompt engineering
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- Hugging Face
Languages
- Python
- Julia
- Fortran
- C/C++
- MATLAB
- R
HPC
- CUDA
- Slurm
- GPU computing
- Profiling
Scientific
- NumPy
- SciPy
- pandas
- Matplotlib
- MITgcm
- FreeFem++
- FEM
- Vortex methods
- Data assimilation
Tooling
- Git
- LaTeX
- Linux