Author

Seid Koric earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering (2006) from the University of Illinois. Dr. Koric is currently the associate technical director at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and a research professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Illinois. He provides technical leadership for the NCSA’s Research Consulting directorate, whose staff works on solutions for grand challenges in industry and academia. Dr. Koric led research projects on the world’s first sustained open-science petascale supercomputing system of Blue Waters that demonstrated the scalability of engineering industrial applications on the peta and even potentially exascale computing level.

Since 2019, Dr. Koric has led interdisciplinary research at the University of Illinois, demonstrating how artificial intelligence (AI) with innovative deep learning methods could assist and significantly accelerate classical numerical methods. Dr. Koric also worked in multiphysics, materials processing, advanced manufacturing, linear sparse solvers, biomechanics, GPUs, and industrial HPC computing.