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Research Computing Specialist (June2026-Present)
Mallikarjuna Thimmapuram is a Research Computing Specialist at KAUST with over 19 years of experience supporting and optimizing Linux and Windows research environments. He joined KAUST in 2012 and has supported campus-wide high-performance workstations and later specialized research computing platforms for faculty research groups. His work covers HPC environments, build automation, GPU and CUDA troubleshooting, and infrastructure upgrades in production research settings. Since June 2026, he has supported the workstations, laptops, storage servers, and computing assets of KAUST’s Urban Lab, and provides research computing support to its team.
Research interests include high-performance computing, scientific software development and validation, parallel and GPU computing, compiler toolchains, and automation of research computing workflows.