- Name
- Arun I
- aruni@iisc.ac.in, arunisaac@systemreboot.net
- Amateur Radio Call Sign
- VU3VJF
- Other
I am a PhD scholar in the Computational and Statistical Physics Lab working with Prof. Murugesan Venkatapathi at the Department of Computational and Data Sciences in the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. I did my Masters in Computational Science from the same department. I did my Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.
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Publications
- Arun, I., and Murugesan Venkatapathi. "Analysis of numerical solutions to Sommerfeld integral relation of the half-space radiator problem." Applied Numerical Mathematics 106 (2016): 79-97.
- Arun I. and Murugesan Venkatapathi. "An algorithm for estimating volumes and other integrals in n dimensions." under review. 2020. arXiv: 2007.06808 [math.NA].
Talks
- Functional Package Management using GNU Guix at the Netherlands Research Software Engineers Conference 2019 (NL-RSE19)
Research
Numerical methods, Monte Carlo method, probability and statistics, high dimensional geometry
- PhD Thesis
- Algorithms for estimating integrals in high dimensional spaces
- Master's Thesis
- Numerical evaluation of the Sommerfeld integral
Courses and Research Training
- Numerical methods and mathematics
- Numerical Methods, Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations, Numerical Linear Algebra, Modelling and Simulation
- Computer systems and algorithms
- Data Structures and Programming, Data Analysis and Visualization, High Performance Computing, Parallel Programming
- Physics
- Introduction to Photonics, Quantum Mechanics I, Applied Solid State Physics, Quantum Mechanical Principles in Materials, Computational Modelling of Materials
Skills
Programming languages and software
- High proficiency
- C, Emacs Lisp, Guile Scheme, LaTeX typesetting, Git version control, GNU/Linux, shell scripting (bash, grep, sed, awk)
- Working proficiency
- C++, Common Lisp, MATLAB, Python, high performance computing (OpenMP, MPI and Cuda)
Other
- Good research and math skills
- Self-driven, motivated and organized
Free software contributions
- Frequent contributor to GNU Guix, the functional package manager, for 4+ years (Link to commits); reviewer with commit access
- Author of ccwl (a concise syntax to express Common Workflow Language workflows), guile-email (an RFC5322 compliant email parser), guile-xapian (guile bindings for the xapian full text search engine), exiftool.el (elisp wrapper around exiftool, the metadata manipulation tool)
- Small contributions to Emacs Org Mode, GNU Guile and to many different projects; active bug reporter (Link to GitHub profile)
- Localization of various free software to Tamil at the Translation Project (Link to translation team page)