HPC Consultant at the Supercomputing Center of Eindhoven University of Technology, helping researchers and students with their HPC workflows, building software with EasyBuild and offering services like OpenOnDemand. With 30+ years across system administration, DevOps/GitOps, CI/CD, cloud and container technology, I adopted SimOps principles into my daily work almost naturally.

Physicist (PhD) and simulation engineer with 20 years of experience across industry and academia, now working as a consultant through his own company, Deep Why, founded to apply his plasma physics knowledge to research and simulation workflows. He specialises in (microwave) plasma simulations and thrives on gathering data from simulation tools and other sources, evaluating possibilities and exploring creative strategies with a pragmatic focus. Curious by nature, he is leveling up into quantum computing and data-driven physical models to explore how they can scale up simulations.

Assistant Professor at the College of Computing, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, where he leads the Chair in Multiphysics and High-Performance Computing and serves on the Advisory Board of Toubkal, Africa's largest academic supercomputer. His work covers both sides of large-scale simulation: parallel finite volume solvers on unstructured meshes, and the energy efficiency of the systems that run them. He develops Manapy, an MPI-based Python finite volume framework, and Mumps4py, a parallel MUMPS interface adopted by the MUMPS project and used in industry. He co-founded the MoroccoHPC community, working to turn simulation into a structured operational capability across African research and industry.

His experience spans the full simulation chain: large-scale versatile CFD workflows and optimization via various tools, AI surrogate models, and experimental validation. Sitting on both sides of the simulation fence, he also works hands-on with HPC environments (job scheduling, parallel storage, GPU workloads, etc.), and has helped shape operational architecture, resource-management practices, and simulation data-retention standard. That dual perspective made SimOps a natural fit. Certified as both SimOps Expert and SimOps Practitioner, and PMP-certified, Ali applies DevOps-style automation, repeatability, and operational discipline to engineering simulation.

Engineering Consultant at Pixida GmbH, working within BMW Group's telematics validation ecosystem. A Mechanical Engineer with a PhD in fluid dynamics specialising in multiphase flow simulation, numerical modelling of liquid film dynamics using Volume of Fluid (VOF) and Eulerian Wall Film (EWF) methods, with experience spanning combustion CFD research and automotive product development at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Skilled in C++, Python and MATLAB, numerical model implementation, mesh generation, and post-processing with ParaView.

R&D Software Engineer at Canon with 10+ years of experience across Banking, Government, Military and Research & Development. He currently works on Robotics, HPC and AI, bridging the gap from simulation to real-world implementations, with a deep focus on automation and performance optimization strategies to bring value to business-critical processes. His work sits at the intersection of AI, Robotics, High-Performance Computing, Embedded and AR/VR.

Final-year ECI Engineering student at Kathmandu Engineering College, currently serving as Event Manager for the IEEE Student Branch along with Electronic Project Club (EPC). I've completed all four SimOps certifications and am eager to deepen my understanding of how simulation bridges theory and real-world engineering systems. Always excited to learn, build, and collaborate.  

SRE & QA Leader at IBM, where he leads software reliability, quality and automation processes. His background combines a degree in Animated Content Production for Industrial Process Simulation with seven years in SDET and quality assurance, covering functional testing, test automation, software support and RPA with Automation Anywhere, alongside earlier work in IT consulting, device engineering and information security risk analysis. He focuses on bringing reliability engineering, automation and operational discipline from software delivery into the way simulation environments are run and maintained.

Simulation Engineer at Vanguard Sustainable Transport Solutions, focusing on high-fidelity modelling of rail, battery and hydrogen systems using MATLAB, Simulink and Simscape. My work involves building simulation tools, analysing vehicle performance, modelling energy use and emissions, and turning technical results into clear evidence for engineering decisions, bids and stakeholder discussions. I have completed the SimOps Fundamentals, Practitioner, Expert and AI certifications, and I'm keen to help simulation move from being a technical tool to a structured operational capability within organisations.

Senior CFD Engineer driving aerodynamic optimization of wind-assisted propulsion systems (eSAIL) at bound4blue, with prior experience in automotive aerodynamics at SEAT/CUPRA. I bridge simulation engineering, Python-based automation pipelines, and HPC infrastructure to bring cloud-native, cross-functional practices into maritime decarbonization.

Solutions Architect for Physical AI at Booz Allen Hamilton, architecting GPU-accelerated simulation and digital twin environments for public sector mission systems. His work brings NVIDIA Omniverse, Ansys solvers and SimOps practices together into cloud-scale co-simulation platforms on Kubernetes, unifying pre-simulation data preparation, physics-grounded simulation and post-processing analytics for sensor evaluation, agent training and synthetic data generation. With a background spanning DevOps, cloud infrastructure and data engineering, and an MS in AI/ML, he focuses on turning fragmented simulation workflows into a structured, repeatable operational capability.