Ravi Samtaney

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton University

Ravi Samtaney started his scientific career as an experimentalist performing heat transfer experiments. After a Master's degree in Mech. Engineering, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the High Speed Electronics group involved in transistor device simulations. He went back to Rutgers University to get a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with Prof. Zabusky. After Rutgers, he was a post-doc at Caltech in applied math. and GALCIT for two years working on the self-similar solutions of Euler equations and hypervelocity flows. He then spent several months performing experiments and simulating flow in MEMS devices at Sarnoff Research Center at Princeton before joining NASA Ames as a research scientist in the data analysis group working in the area of computer graphics and close-range photogrammety. Following this, he was a senior research associate at the ASCI Center at Caltech with a research focus on compressible turbulence and writing codes for the "Virtual test facility". He also collaborated with clinical researchers at UCLA Medical school in simulating parathyroid gland sectretory dynamics.

His latest position is that of "computational scientist" in the Computational Plasma Physics Group at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University with a joint appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Currently his research focus is on magneto-hydrodynamic flows relevant to the fusion effort. He continues collaborating with the ASCI center at Caltech, and with the UCLA Medical school where he is an adjuct professor of Cardiology.

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