Dhanachezhian DURAIKANNU

Lead Mechanical Engineer - GE HealthCare

Dhanachezhian DURAIKANNU is the Lead Mechanical Engineer at GE HealthCare passionate about FEA, CFD, and Injection Molding Simulation. He has over 20 years of experience in the Healthcare, Automotive, and CAD/CAE Industries. At GE HealthCare - the Anesthesia and Respiratory Care (ARC) division focuses on Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM). Volunteered as Production Associate (PA) at GE HealthCare Madison WI Plant to produce CARESCAPE R860 Ventilators during the Pandemic. Dhanachezhian holds a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai, India. Pursuing MS in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, with a vision to implement the latest technologies and learnings into New Product Introductions (NPI) by solving complex problems. 

Shawn WASSERMAN

Senior Editor - engineering.com

Shawn WASSERMAN is passionate about informing, inspiring, and engaging the engineering community. As a Senior Editor at engineering.com, he writes and manages sections on simulation, PLM, and other bleeding-edge technologies. He has spent over seven years at engineering.com and two years as the manager of Ansys blog. He has been back at engineering.com since 2021. 

Mark ZAKHEM

Staff Hardware Design & Regulatory Engineer - Inovonics

I’m Mark ZAKHEM, I am a Staff Hardware Design and Regulatory Engineer at Inovonics. I received my undergraduate degree from CU Boulder in Electrical Engineering and my master’s degree from CU Boulder with a focus on RF and high-speed design. I have been with Inovonics for over 2 years and my focus of work has been designing custom-printed antennas for our new products. Over the past few years, I have used CST Studio to design our most complicated and unique antennas to date. I presented for CATI for their webinar and at the SIMULIA Americas Users Conference, where I highlighted all the unique solutions and methods used through CST to achieve these complex and unique antenna design solutions. I showcased the capabilities of building unique environments for the antennas, optimizing through parameters, using the 2D/3D results (Electric & Magnetic Fields) and Far Field results for further validation, and an overview of the CST software concerning antenna simulation.

Srikrishna S CHITTUR

3DEXPERIENCE WORKS Simulation Industry Process Senior Manager - Dassault Systèmes

Srikrishna S. CHITTUR leads the technical enablement of Customers, Internal teams, and value channel partners of Dassault Systemes on MODSIM-driven product innovation enabled by 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS simulation portfolio. Previously, he was leading the product strategy for mainstream fluid simulation (CFD) solutions on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, including roadmap planning, product definition, go-to-market, packaging, and pricing. As a passionate Evangelist of Dassault Systemes SIMULIA Brand’s overall vision for Democratization, Krishna has been actively involved in communicating with internal teams, key customers, and Value Added Resellers (VARs) about our upfront Designer-centric simulation solutions addressing a broad range of Industry processes. Before joining Dassault Systemes SIMULIA R&D in 2016, Krishna functioned as a Simulation Applications Expert at Trimech Solutions with a focus on pre-sales, technical & sales training, technical support, marketing, and engineering services associated with the SOLIDWORKS Simulation portfolio. Before Trimech, he worked as an Aerodynamics Engineer and Nuclear Propulsion Research fellow at private and government organizations in the US. He holds a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from San Jose State University in California, USA, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from B.M.S College of Engineering in Bengaluru, India.

Karl D’SOUZA

Life Sciences Industry Solution Experience Director - Dassault Systèmes

Karl D'SOUZA is computational modeling and simulation professional with extensive experience in technology consulting, product management, and business development as they pertain to simulation-based solutions for science and technology companies.

In his current role as Life Sciences Industry Solution Experience Director at Dassault Systèmes, he is responsible for managing the Design and Engineering portfolio of Dassault Systèmes’ solutions for medical devices, bio-pharmaceuticals, and patient care.

Prior to his current role, he helped grow Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Human Modeling initiative with a special focus on cardiovascular and neurological applications and was a founding member of the Living Heart Project and product manager of the Living Heart Human Model.

Karl has a B. Tech in Materials Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from SUNY Buffalo, and an MBA from Bryant University, and is based in Providence, RI, USA.

Monika BALK

Industry Solution Experience Senior Manager, Dassault Systèmes

Monika Balk is currently an Industry Solution Experience Senior Manager with Dassault Systèmes Simulia. During her work for Dassault Systèmes Simulia she supported leading high-tech customers worldwide. She has over 15 years of experience in the simulation software industry after she received her Ph.D. at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 2005 with an accelerator physics related topic. Before, she graduated in 2000 at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany, in high frequency engineering.

Bryan HURLBUT

Global High Tech Industry Process Expert, Dassault Systèmes

Bryan Hurlbut is currently a SIMULIA IPS, Global High Tech Industry Process Expert in the Silicon Valley. He has been with Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA for the last 8 years performing structural mechanics simulations for multiple industries. He was the Technical Account Manager for multiple High Tech accounts over the past 5 years. Prior to joining DS, Mr. Hurlbut was the owner of Rhombus Consultants Group, Inc. performing structural simulation services and methods development research for Aerospace, High Tech and Life Sciences industries. The beginning of his career was spent at the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory performing research into advanced structural methods and materials for FEA.