Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
My research focuses on accelerating multiscale and multiphysics simulations using next-generation computing including emerging AI accelerators and leadership class supercomputers.
J. Merson, C. Picu, and M. S. Shephard, “MuMFiM: Multiscale Modeling of Fibrous Materials.” Under Review, 2023.
J. Merson and M. S. Shephard, “Using Hierarchical Parallelism to Accelerate the Solution of Many Small Partial Differential Equations.” HiPar workshop at The International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, 2020. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.07030.
J. Merson and M. S. Shephard, “model-traits: model attribute definitions for scientific simulations in C++,” The Journal of Open Source Software, vol. 6, no. 64, p. 3389, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.21105/joss.03389.
J. Merson and R. C. Picu, “size effects in random fiber networks controlled by the use of generalized boundary conditions,” International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 206, pp. 314–321, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.09.033.