Varun Shankar
Advisor at Light-Hope Diagnostics, Inc.
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Shankar is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah specializing in scientific machine learning, scientific computing, and high-performance computing, with nine years of post-PhD experience and over a decade in numerical analysis. He leads research on scalable, provably-accurate Digital Twins for scientific applications and brings practical expertise in meshfree and hybrid numerical methods developed during his doctoral and postdoctoral work. In parallel he shapes graduate education and industry engagement as Associate Director of the Master of Software Development program and Associate Chair at the Stena Center for Financial Technology. Based in Salt Lake City, he combines rigorous academic foundations (PhD in Scientific Computing, 3.97 GPA) with program-building and outreach, uniquely positioning him at the intersection of research, curriculum design, and fintech translation.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, DavisB.Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering at SRM UniversityThe University of Utah
English, Hindi, Tamil, French
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Github Skills (4)
single-file6
matlab6
c-library4
physics-informed-neural-networks2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ShankarLab/Legendre-Lite-Jax
Jun 2024 - May 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ShankarLab/kernelpack-matlab
Apr 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:27 pushes in 1 month
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