SIMULIA Americas Users Conference

Saurabh Bahuguna is currently Global Technical Specialist for Battery Durability & Fatigue at General Motors. In his current role, Saurabh provides technical leadership and guidance for structural analysis required to develop and validate Battery Packs, Modules and Cells. Saurabh is also responsible for setting the strategic technical vision for the team leading to new analysis capability development. Prior to this role, Saurabh was Technical Specialist for Motors & Power Electronics Structures.

Saurabh has over 20 years of experience providing technical leadership in a variety of roles and simulation domains. Supporting this is a very strong educational background with a PhD in Engineering Mechanics.

Jameson is currently the global manager for the CAE and advanced testing group at Celanese Corporation, where he leads a team that is responsible for supporting both internal and external customers through design, generating complex data, material modeling, simulation and validation through component testing. Jameson went to Kettering University, in Flint, Michigan, for his BSME and has over 20 years of experience in the plastics industry supporting customers in a variety of areas while at Celanese.

I'm currently a Director of Design and Development at BD serving our Catheter Care, Injection Systems, Infusion Preparation and Delivery and Hazardous Drug Safety business units. We act as an in house design firm that brings new products to market and jumps in as a tiger team to solve critical issues and support innovation including due diligence. At my core I'm an engineer that loves to solve problems that can help make the world a better place. I'm motivated by the opportunity to improve quality and access to health care and I'm passionate about doing this in a way that both improves the lives of patients and drives business growth. Lastly, I'm excited about looking for new ways to drive quality and efficiency to support the best possible outcomes for patients and the businesses we serve.

George Karniadakis is the Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professorof Applied Mathematics and Engineering, Brown University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow. He received his S.M. and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984/87). He was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and subsequently he joined the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford / Nasa Ames. He joined Princeton University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and as Associate Faculty in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics. He was a Visiting Professor at Caltech in 1993 in the Aeronautics Department and joined Brown University as Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Center for Fluid Mechanics in 1994. After becoming a full professor in 1996, he continued to be a Visiting Professor and Senior Lecturer of Ocean/Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He is an AAAS Fellow (2018-), Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, 2010-), Fellow of the American Physical
Society (APS, 2004-), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME, 2003-) and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA, 2006-).  He received the SES G.I. Taylor medal (2014), the SIAM/ACM Prize on Computational Science & Engineering (2021), the Alexander von Humboldt award in 2017, the SIAM Ralf E Kleinman award (2015), the J. Tinsley Oden Medal (2013), and the CFD award (2007) by the US Association in Computational Mechanics. His h-index is 140 and he has been cited over 100,000 times.

With over sixteen years of experience, Ali has actively contributed to the design and analysis of energy products. His expertise spans various disciplines, encompassing 3D linear/non-linear Finite Element (FE) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, and design of oil and gas products. Ali holds an MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, along with an MBA from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. He is actively engaged in activities such as structural/thermal analysis, digital twin implementation, drop object analysis, and fatigue and failure life calculations for a variety of energy components. Ali also possesses significant expertise in the digital twin concept, condition-based monitoring, data analytics, and machine learning within his skill set.

Faisal Sayeed is currently the Engineering Group Manager for the Battery Durability & Fatigue at General Motors. Faisal Sayeed, in his current role, provides enterprise-wide solution to the Battery to Cell Manufacturing process, Design & Synthesis and Validations before ship to commerce. He is responsible for budgeting, planning and emotional intelligence of the team members to make sure the readiness of the virtual validation. Prior to this role, Faisal was the Manager of the Engine & Electrification Sealing & Fastening group and the Virtual Integration Manger for the Small Block Engines.

Faisal has over 20 years of experience from Engine to Electrification providing leadership in both product design as a DRE and in virtual space to achieve validation with minimal prototype tooling. Faisal Sayeed has a MSc in Structural Mechanics.

Mark Taylor is currently the FEA Development Lead at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Finite Element Analysis Technical Excellence Center. Mark received his Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has over 20 years of simulation experience across a range of structural analysis including vehicle level, propulsion systems, and detailed component models. As the development lead Mark aligns best practices alongside robust automation processes to further advance simulation across the entire commercial airplane portfolio.

Sebastien obtained his mechanical engineering degree from EPFL in Switzerland in 2001. He began his career at MTU Aeroengines in Munich, focusing on aerodynamics and structural analysis. Later, he assumed various Technical Director roles at EXA Corp in Europe. In 2014, Sebastien became the Managing Director for the Aerospace Industry, a position he held until the integration of EXA into Dassault Systèmes in 2019. At Dassault Systèmes, he served as SIMULIA Head of Aerospace and SIMULIA GEO Leader EUROCENTRAL until July 2023, when he transitioned to the role of SIMULIA VP Sales and Marketing.

Dr. Ramji Kamakoti is the North America Modelling and Simulation Director at Dassault Systemes. He has over 20 years of experience in computational modelling and simulation focusing in areas such as fluid dynamics, structure dynamics and multi-physics in general. His team is currently responsible for leading and providing technical solutions that involves integrated simulation-based design for a variety of industries. He received his masters and PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Florida.

Victor earned his PhD from Duke University in 1996 in the area of computational mechanics. He then joined what was the Abaqus R&D development in Rhode Island, which today is part DASSAULT SYSTEMES SIMULIA Corp. Victor has worked in a variety of R&D positions through the years and is today the Senior Technology Director and the Chief Scientific Officer for Structural applications. In the last few years at SIMULIA Victor has led from a simulation technology perspective a variety of multiphysics/multiscale simulation initiatives including machine learning, battery cell engineering, additive manufacturing, micro-mechanics based multiscale materials, particle methods for extreme deformation, oil and gas multiphysics formulations, realistic human simulation capabilities, co-simulation-based multi-physics modeling.