SIMULIA Americas Users Conference

Charlie Gagliano is the Director of Digital Innovation Division within the Advanced Tech Research Business Unit at Honda Development and Manufacturing of America. Charlie’s journey started as an NVH test engineer who became one of the champions of Advanced Testing methods and CAE at Honda twenty-five years ago. After moving into the Vehicle Dynamics organization, Charlie initiated the application of systems engineering approaches to Ride Comfort, Handling and Steering in North America and later worked to expand this approach to Body Structure, Crash and Powertrain Integration through cross functional teams. Leveraging the V-Flow model of vehicle development and lightweight system and conceptual models have been key to the success of these initiatives. In his current role he is leading digital transformation initiatives in north American while working with Japan counter parts as one team.

Ganesh Subbarayan is the James G. Dwyer Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and the Co-Director of the Purdue-Binghamton SRC Center for Heterogeneous Integration Research in Packaging (CHIRP). He also serves as the Director of the recently created Atalla Institute for Advanced System Integration and Packaging (ASIP) at Purdue University. He began his professional career at IBM Corporation (1990-1993). He holds a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering (1985) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a Direct Ph. D. (1991) in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Dr. Subbarayan's research is broadly concerned with modeling and experimentally characterizing failure in microelectronic devices and assemblies. He was a pioneer in using geometric models directly for analysis, popularly referred to as Isogeometric Analysis. Among others, Dr. Subbarayan received the 2024 Richard Chu Award for Excellence in Thermal and Thermo-Mechanical Management of Electronics, 2022 SRC Technical Excellence Award, 2005 Excellence in Mechanics Award from the ASME Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division and the NSF CAREER award. He is a Fellow of ASME as well as IEEE, and he served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging during 2002-2010.

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.