Presenter

Pratik Nayak is a Doctoral candidate in the FiNE (Fixed point Numerics for Exascale) junior research group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research interests include high performance computing, asynchronous methods and numerical linear algebra. He holds a master's degree (Honors track) in Mechanical Engineering specializing in Fluid Mechanics from Technical University of Delft, Netherlands. He is also one of the core developers of Ginkgo, a modern C++ library for the iterative solution of sparse linear systems, via Krylov subspace methods, on multicore architectures.