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General Information

Full Name Vedant Dhruv
Languages English (Proficient), Hindi (Proficient), Gujarati (Native), Spanish (Limited), Arabic (Elementary)

Education

  • 2019 - 2025 (Expected)
    PhD in Physics
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 2014 - 2018
    B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering
    National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India

Experience

  • Aug. 2020 -
    Graduate Research Assistant
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
  • Aug. 2023 - Oct. 2023
    Guest Researcher
    Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York, USA
  • May. 2018 - Apr. 2019
    Research Scholar
    Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
  • May. 2017 - Jul. 2017
    Visiting Undergraduate Researcher
    Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Computational Grants

  • Oct. 2024 - Sep. 2025
    (Co-Investigator) ACCESS Maximize “Event Horizon Telescope and Black Hole Astrophysics"
    • ~72k GPU hours, ~680k CPU core-hours
  • Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2024
    (Co-Investigator) DOE INCITE “Horizon-scale Variability Modeling for the EHT”
    • ~600k Frontier node-hours
  • Oct. 2023 - Sep. 2024
    ACCESS Maximize “Event Horizon Telescope and Black Hole Astrophysics”
    • ~128k GPU hours, ~775k CPU core-hours
  • Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2022
    DOE INCITE “Next-Generation Modeling for the EHT"
    • ~410k Summit node-hours

Awards

  • 2025
    Donald C. & F. Shirley Jones Fellowship
  • 2023
    Selected for ALCF ATPESC HPC Workshop
  • 2022 - 2023
    ICSA-NCSA Graduate Fellowship, UIUC
  • 2019 - 2020
    Excellent Teaching Assistant
  • 2017
    Visiting Students' Research Programme (VSRP), TIFR Mumbai
  • 2017
    Nominated for the OPJEMS Scholarship (top 5% in the department)

Computational Projects

  • KHARMA
    • A performance-portable GRMHD code with AMR. Primary developer of the implicit timestepper and the Extended MHD model.
  • iharm3d
    • Primary maintainer of the Hybrid MPI/OpenMP 3D GRMHD code. The code can be found here, while the code paper is here.
  • iharm2d_v4
    • A 2D ideal GRMHD code derived from iharm3d with fewer dependencies and better documentation. This is probably what you want if you're just getting started or want to run a black hole accretion problem on your laptop.
  • harmless (WIP)
    • A python module to perform reductions on HARM data products, e.g., KHARMA / iharm3d / iharm2d_v4 output files.