Ronald Rahaman has worked as a software engineer at Argonne National Laboratory since 2016.  His work includes performance optimizations for physical simulations on high-performance computing platforms, including GPUs. 

Previously, he worked at Argonne as a resident associate and predoctoral appointee from 2013 through 2016.  Prior to Argonne, he worked at the University of Chicago as a research technologist from 2009 through 2013. 

Ronald graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. in chemistry and an M.S. in computer science. 

He has contributed to the following projects within the Department of Energy:

• CESAR:  The Center for Exascale Simulation of Advanced Reactors
• SHARP:  Simulation-based High-efficiency Advanced Reactor Prototyping
• ECP:  The Exascale Computing Project

Research Interests

• High-performance computing
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Stochastic simulation