Mahmood M. Shad

Mahmood M. Shad

Associate Director of Research Software Engineering, FAS Research Computing, Harvard University
Mahmood M. Shad

Mahmood M. Shad is the Associate Director of Research Software Engineering (RSE) at the FAS Research Computing (FASRC) department. Mahmood works with Harvard’s FASRC team to design, build, and maintain scientific software packages and data services to address the needs of researchers from different disciplines and to accelerate cutting-edge researches at Harvard University. As a senior scientific software engineer in his previous role at FASRC, he has designed and built the computational infrastructure of the Ölveckzy Lab at the Center for Brain Science (CBS) with the help of the FASRC team in order to accelerate research on the brain and neuroscience in general.

Mahmood earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering, and his research focuses on computational multiphase fluid dynamics and heat transfer, high-performance parallel scientific computing, scientific software engineering, and artificial intelligence. He is also interested in deep reinforcement learning as well as developing new architecture and methods for big data analysis and their efficient software implementation.

In his free time, Mahmood enjoys urban/nature photography and playing with Ginger & Mangoo, his cockatiels.