Biography

George Zagaris received his B.S. (Honors) and M.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary in 2005 and 2008 respectively. His M.S. work focused on parallel unstructured mesh generation for CFD applications and was partially funded by the NASA Graduate Student Research Program (GSRP) Fellowship at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC).

Prior to joining Kitware, George worked as a Research Programmer at the Center for Simulation for Advanced Rockets (CSAR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at IllinoisRocstar LLC. While there, George developed a toolkit for parallel overset grid assembly targeting unsteady, time-dependent, moving body aerodynamic simulations. Other specific tasks include the development of pre- and post- processing utilities for CFD Analysis and visualization, implementation of moving mesh techniques for adjoint shape optimization and methods for GPU accelerated mesh optimization.

In January 2011, George joined Kitware's Scientific Computing Group as an R&D Engineer.