Seid Koric

Seid Koric
Seid Koric
Research Associate Professor
(217) 265-8410
1008 Nat Center for Suprcomp Appl

Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1993

Biography

Seid Koric received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sarajevo (1993). He earned M.S. in aerospace engineering (1999) and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering (2006) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Koric is currently the associate technical director at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and a research associate professor in the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois. He provides technical and strategic leadership for the NCSA’s Research Consulting directorate, whose staff works on solutions for grand challenges in industry and academia.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Koric developed, implemented, and tested several ground-breaking numerical methods for solving highly nonlinear multiphysics and multiphase problems in materials processing. They have been used worldwide to optimize continuous casting and other steel-making processes and minimize their defects and CO2 footprint. Later, Dr. Koric led research projects on the world’s first sustained open-science petascale supercomputing system of Blue Waters that demonstrated the scalability of engineering industrial applications on the peta and even potentially exascale computing level. Since 2019, Dr. Koric has led novel interdisciplinary research at the University of Illinois, demonstrating how artificial intelligence (AI) with innovative machine and deep learning methods could assist and drastically accelerate (up to 10,000x speedups) classical numerical methods and even replace them or solve some previously considered unsolvable problems in engineering and science.

Dr. Koric also worked in multiphysics, advanced manufacturing processes, sparse linear solvers, biomechanics, finite element methods, GPUs, and industrial HPC computing. His research has been highly influential, earning him an array of prestigious HPC and engineering awards – most notably the two top supercomputing achievement awards in 2014 and 2017. He has published or contributed to over 90 research papers and articles on a diverse range of topics.

Academic Positions

  • Technical Associate Director, National Center for Supercomputer Applications-NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022-present
  • Technical Assistant Director, National Center for Supercomputer Applications-NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2017-2022
  • Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2016-present
  • Technical Program Manager, Private Sector Program, National Center for Supercomputer Applications-NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2014-2017
  • Senior Technical Lead for Industrial Projects National Center for Supercomputer Applications-NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2011-2014
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2010-2014
  • Engineering Applications Analyst National Center for Supercomputer Applications-NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1999-2011
  • Graduate Research Assistant, National Center for Supercomputer Applications-NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1997-1999

Professional Registrations

  • ASME Member
  • U of Illinois Continuous Casting Consortium Research Member

Research Interests

  • Artificial intelligence; large-scale multiphysics modeling; materials processing; advanced manufacturing, high-performance computing and biomechanics

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

Chapters in Books

Selected Articles in Journals

Honors

  • NCSA Best Collaborative Effort Award 2010
  • NCSA Technical Achievement Award, December 2013
  • Key Scientific Article Certificate, Advances in Engineering 2016

Research Honors

  • High Performance Computing Innovation Excellence Award from the International Data Corporation (IDC) (November 2011)
  • High Performance Computing (HPC) Innovation Excellence Award from the International Data Corporation (IDC) (Jun 2014)
  • Best Use of an HPC Application in Manufacturing from HPC-wire (November 2014)
  • Top Supercomputing Achievement of 2014 from HPC-wire (November 2014)
  • Editors Choice, Journal of Applied Physics (Jun 2015)
  • HPCwire Editors' Choice Award for Top Supercomputing Achievement, (November 2017)
  • Editor's Choice, Best Use of HPC in Automotive from HPC-wire, with Rolls-Royce, Cray and LSTC, November 2018 (November 2018)
  • HPC Innovation Excellence Award from Hyperion Research for the first successful implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Materials Processing, November 2020 (November 2020)
  • HPC Innovation Excellence Award, with Roll-Royce, Ansys Inc, Cray/HPE  for LS-DYNA Scaling with the direct implicit finite element solver. (November 2022 )

Other Honors

  • Chancellor’s List 2005, The US National Recognition for outstanding graduate/professional students (2005)