Rajeev Jaiman

Rajeev K. Jaiman is currently an Associate Professor and Seaspan Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. An aeronautical engineer by training, his research concentrates on a high-fidelity physical modeling and data-driven computing, with emphasis on large-scale computations of fluid-solid and fluid-fluid interface problems. Prior to his current appointment at UBC, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS, Dr. Jaiman was the Director of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Development at Altair Engineering, Inc., Mountain View, California. The solver technologies that Dr. Jaiman has developed are being routinely used in the wind turbines, marine and offshore, nuclear reactors, automotive and aerospace industries. Dr. Jaiman earned his Bachelor of Technology degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Dr. Jaiman received his master’s and doctorate degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In 2018, Dr. Jaiman was awarded the Institute of Engineers Singapore (IES) prestigious engineering recognition for the development of a next-generation revolutionary semi-submersible, and in 2005 he was awarded by the Strehlow Memorial “Outstanding Researcher” recognition. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings and has served as expert reviewers for numerous leading journals. He is currently an Associate Editor of ASME-OMAE Journal, a senior member of AIAA and members of ASME, SNAME, USACM, APS, AAM, and SIAM.

Education

• PhD/MS University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2001 — 2007)
• BTech Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1996 — 2000)

Companies

• Associate Professor The University of British Columbia (2018)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2012 — 2018)
• Director of CFD Development Altair Engineering (2011 — 2012)
• CFD Program Specialist Altair Engineering (2011 — 2011)
• Lead CFD Developer ACUSIM Software, Inc (2007 — 2010)
• Graduate Research Assistant and Fellow UIUC (2004 — 2007)
• Research Assistant University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001 — 2006)
• Research Intern General Electric Global Research (2004 — 2004)
• CFD Consultant Analytical and Computational (2000 — 2001)

Skills

• Analysis
• Matlab
• Engineering

Other

Heat Transfer, Optimization, High Performance Computing, Fortran, Numerical Analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Simulations, CFD