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Daniel Madrid

PhD Student

Daniel Madrid

Daniel Madrid is a PhD student in the Computational Modeling and Simulation (CMS) program at the University of Pittsburgh. He works full-time as an R&D engineer at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) where he focuses on emerging and enabling technologies in nuclear propulsion. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Arizona and Arizona State University, respectively. His research interests are in quantum computational fluid dynamics, quantum algorithms, and quantum computing.