Speakers

Ed has more than 30 years of experience in Vibro-Acoustics across naval, aerospace, and commercial applications. His career includes technical leadership roles at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, United Launch Alliance, General Dynamics, and Dassault Systèmes. In 2024, he founded Structural Acoustic Solutions, where he consults with organizations including Damping Technologies Inc, Acoustic Research Systems, Dassault Systèmes, and NASA. He holds degrees from Penn State, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Massachusetts.

Dan is a mechanical engineer with several years of experience focused on engineering analysis using finite element methods in the general-purpose finite element software Abaqus.  In Abaqus, he has worked through a wide variety of analysis problems from high-temperature creep and fracture to composites and fatigue.

Will has been with SIMULIA for nearly 25 years, in a variety of technical and sales roles. He has trained, supported, mentored and consulted with customers across many industries in Canada, the US and UK to help them address their simulation challenges and leverage the power of SIMULIA technology. Will holds Batchelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Mara Boumpouli is a MODSIM IPC and joined Dassault Systèmes at the beginning of this year. She was working for over 4 years as a Product Development Engineer in the Life Sciences sector at Terumo Aortic, Glasgow, UK. Her expertise lies in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Analysis and Model Segmentation. She holds a Masters and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and Bachelors in Biology from the University of Crete, Greece.

Dr. Hicham Farid has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Quebec, Canada, where his research focused on Fracture Mechanics. His primary interests are Material Modeling and Calibration, Fracture Mechanics, and Fatigue. Before joining Dassault Systèmes, Hicham spent 12 years working as R&D Engineer/Scientist at leading organizations in the aerospace, nuclear, and renewable energy industries.

Prabu has been with Dassault Systèmes for 13 years and has been working in the North America MODSIM Technical Sales Team responsible for highlighting the value of 3DExperience MODSIM Roles in customer engagements. Before his current role in the Technical sales team, he was part of the SIMULIA Program office at P&G and Johnson & Johnson Ethicon working on supporting various projects, including creating simulation processes for packaging workflows for Rigid packages and Flexible pouches and deploying it to the broader designer community using our automation tools. Prabu received his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University where he worked on Fiber reinforced Composite damage mechanics. He works out of our Cincinnati, OH office.