Chad Burdyshaw

Education

Ph.D, Computational Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, May 2006

MS, Computational Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2001

BS, Physics, Central Washington University, 1999

BS, Computer Science, Central Washington University, 1999

Employment

Assistant Research Professor, Computational Simulation and Design Center, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2006-Present

Research Associate, Computational Simulation and Design Center, Mississippi State University, 2001-2002

Research Associate, Computational Simulation and Design Center, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2002-2006

Graduate Research Assistant, Computational Simulation and Design Center, Mississippi State University, 1999-2001

Software Test Engineer, Accelerations Software, Poulsbo WA, 1999

Research Assistant, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Richland WA, 1997

Honors & Activities

Magna Cum Laude graduate in Physics and Computer Science

First “Outstanding Computer Science Graduate” awarded by CWU

Associated Western Universities Research Fellowship

Member Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society

MSU External Research Advisory Committee Presenter

NSF Engineering Research Center Advisory Committee Presenter

Research Activities

1996-1999, Theoretical analysis and modeling of classical dynamical systems.

1996-1999, Experimental analysis of chaotic acoustic waveforms in a variable length, stadium shaped cavity.

1997, Analysis and feature extraction from ultrasonic wave reflection in materials of non-uniform density.

1997, Characterization of metallic alloy composition based on measurements of surface eddy inductive resistance.

1998, Digital analysis of astronomical images for the determination of object luminosity.

1998-present, Algorithm analysis applied to characterization and optimization of serial and parallel algorithms.

1999-present, Applied numerical analysis for the solution of systems of nonlinear partial differential equations.

1999-present, Analysis of stochastic and nonlinear optimization methods, and numerical differentiation techniques.

1999-present, Investigation of analysis and design methods applied to computational field simulations.

Publications

S. Kapadia, W. K. Anderson, L. Elliott, C. Burdyshaw, Adjoint Method for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Simulations. Journal of Power Sources, (To be published early 2007)

C. Burdyshaw, Achieving Automatic Concurrency Between Computational Field Solvers and Adjoint Sensitivity Codes. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2006

C. Burdyshaw, W.K. Anderson, A General and Extensible Unstructured Mesh Adjoint Method. AIAA Journal of Aerospace, Computing, Information, and Communication. 2005

C. Burdyshaw, Quasi 3-D Multi-Stage Turbomachinery Pre-Optimizer. Masters Thesis, Mississippi State University 2001.

C. Burdyshaw, C. W. Carr, M. Forrest, J. Stanfield, R. Yu, Chaos in an Acoustic Stadium. Proceedings of American Physical Society, March Meeting 1997.