CV
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Computational Mathematics
Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | Aug. 2020 – Present
- Advisor: Tony Gao — GPA: 3.92/4.0
- Relevant courses: Parallel Computing, Computational Optimization, Numerical PDEs, Geometry and Topology I, Fluid Mechanics I, Continuum Mechanics, Plasticity
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering / Minor in Applied Mathematics
Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA | Aug. 2014 – Aug. 2018
- GPA: 3.97/4.0 — GRE: 167Q 162V
- Relevant courses: Partial Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis I
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Complex Fluids Group at Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | Aug. 2022 – Present
Guest Researcher
Center of Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute New York, NY | Aug. 2022 – Present
Summer Research Associate
Center of Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute New York, NY | Apr. 2022 – Aug. 2022
Research Assistant
Complex Fluids Group at Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | May 2020 – Apr. 2022
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA | Sept. 2017 – Aug. 2018
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Mentor for Flatiron Institute’s Summer Research Internship
Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute New York, NY | Apr. 2023 – Present
| Name | Mentorship Duration | Current Status |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffery Coulter | 4 months | Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student at Purdue University |
Mentor for NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates
Complex Fluids Group at Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | Aug. 2020 – Present
| Name | Mentorship Duration | Current Status |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Govan | 2 years | Physics Masters student at MSU |
| Srijan Gubbi | 1.5 years | Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech |
| Carson Kipp | 1 year | Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech |
| Emma Brann | 4 months | Physics Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Thinh Nguyen | 4 months | Applied Math Ph.D. student at Notre Dame |
| Joel Dover | 4 months | Manufacturing Engineer |
Mechanical Engineering Tutor
Wyzant Worcester, MA | Nov. 2019 – Aug. 2020
CRLA Certified Tutor
Center for Academic Excellence at Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA | Jan. 2015 – Aug. 2018
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Staff Level Engineer/Scientist
Acoustics and Air Quality Group at Epsilon Associates Inc. Maynard, MA | Oct. 2018 – Nov. 2019
Field Engineer Co-op
Columbia Gas of Massachusetts Westborough, MA | Jan. 2017 – May 2017
PUBLICATIONS
Bryce Palmer, Adam Lamson, H. Metin Aktulga, and Tong Gao.
ReLCP: Scalable complementarity-based collision resolution for smooth rigid bodies. (Under Preparation)
Shihab Shahriar Khana*, Bryce Palmer*, Tong Gao, and H. Metin Aktulga.
Exploring learned hydrodynamic kernels: A physics-informed approach to dense suspensions. (Under Preparation)
Jasmin Imran Alsous, Brato Chakrabarti, Bryce Palmer, Michael J. Shelley.
The physical consequences of sperm gigantism. (Submitted)
Bryce Palmer*, Scott Weady*, Michael O'Brien, Blakesley Burkhart, Michael J. Shelley.
Correlations, mean-field limits, and transition to the concentrated regime in active particle suspensions. (Submitted)
Scott Weady*, Bryce Palmer*, Adam Lamson, Taeyoon Kim, Reza Farhadifar, Michael J. Shelley.
Mechanics and morphology of proliferating cell collectives with self-inhibiting growth.
Physical Review Letters, Oct. 11, 2024
Shihab Shahriar Khana, Bryce Palmer, Christopher Edelmaier, H. Metin Aktulga.
OpenRAND: A performance portable, reproducible random number generation library for parallel computations.
SoftwareX, May 20, 2024
Bryce Palmer, Wen Yan, and Tong Gao.
Hydrodynamic instabilities of activity-balanced binary suspensions.
Physical Review Fluids, June 21, 2022
Bryce Palmer*, Sheng Chen*, Patrick Govan, Wen Yan, and Tong Gao.
Understanding topological defects in fluidized dry active nematics.
Soft Matter, Jan. 4, 2022
Authors marked with an asterisk (*) contributed equally to the work.
Conference and Workshop Presentations
Bryce Palmer, Chris Edelmaier, Adam Lamson, Shihab Khan, H. Metin Aktulga, Tony Gao, Michael Shelley.
Software development efforts: MuNDy/aLENS2.0.
CCBx Annual Meeting, June 24, 2024
Bryce Palmer.
Handling collisions in fluid simulations.
Computational Tools for PDEs with Complicated Geometries and Interfaces workshop, June 13, 2024
Bryce Palmer, Chris Edelmaier, Shihab Khan, Adam Lamson, Michael J. Shelley, H. Metin Aktulga, Tony Gao.
MuNDy: Multibody Nonlocal Dynamics (Pre-release).
Mechanics of Life II: Models and Methods, December 19, 2023 (Poster)
Dimitrios Vavylonis, Adam Lamson, David Rutkowski, Bryce Palmer, Michael J. Shelley.
Confined actin ring assembly through bundle coarsening prior to kinetic arrest.
APS March Meeting 2024, March 4, 2024
Nima Mirzaeian, Bryce Palmer, Tong Gao.
Elucidating interfacial instability of apolar active suspensions.
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 2023, November 11, 2023
Bryce Palmer, Metin Aktulga, Tong Gao, Balasubramaniam Shanker.
A spectral integral equation method for smooth genus-zero surfaces using spherical grid rotations.
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 2022, November 11, 2022
Bryce Palmer, Sheng Chen, Patrick Govan, Wen Yan, and Tong Gao.
Understanding active turbulence in fluidized dry active nematics.
APS March Meeting 2022, March 5, 2022
Bryce Palmer, Wen Yan, and Tong Gao.
A geometric constraint minimization algorithm for concentrated active suspension.
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (Fall) 2020, January 1, 2020
AWARDS & HONORS
- NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship 2022
- MSU’s Engineering Distinguished Scholar Fellowship 2020
- MSU’s Academic Achievement Graduate Assistantship 2020
- WIT’s President’s Campus Leadership Award for Mechanical Engineering 2018
- WIT’s Alumni Award for Academic Achievement 2018
- John and Liz Caldwell Opportunity Scholarship ($55,000) 2014–2018
- Wesley J. Packard Memorial Scholarship ($6,750) 2015
- WIT’s Academic Achievement Merit Scholarship ($12,250) 2014
COMPUTATIONAL EXPERTISE
Scientific Software Architecture
- C++20 (template meta-programming, concepts, SOLID software design)
- Language interoperability (pybind11 and MEX for Python/MATLAB C++ API)
- Kokkos (performance-portable abstractions, legacy code refactoring, hierarchical parallelism)
- TriBITS and CMake (modular build systems for scalable scientific codes)
- OpenMP (shared-memory parallelism), MPI (distributed-memory solvers, parallel logic)
- Automated testing (GTest, CTest), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
Numerical Algorithms and Methods
- Collision resolution (Complementarity-based: LCP, NCP | Potential-Based: Hertz, penalty)
- Kinetic Monte Carlo methods (rejection sampling, inverse transform sampling)
- Distributed-memory sparse, matrix-free, and dense linear and non-linear algebra (Trilinos Belos/Tpetra/NOX/Kokkos-kernels)
Performance Engineering
- Memory and cache optimization (NUMA-awareness, memory locality and reuse)
- Profiling and tuning (Intel VTune, NVIDIA Nsight)
- HPC workflow (Slurm cluster scheduling, disbatch, module environments)
Analysis/Visualization
- Python (NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Code generation)
- ParaView and VTK pipelines (3D mesh generation, visualization, and processing)