Arshad Mehmood

Specializes in high-performance scientific computing, with a particular focus on modeling the photochemistry of molecules and nanomaterials and nonadiabatic molecular dynamics. He earned his Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry (2020) from Texas Christian University, receiving the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, following an M.Sc. and M.Phil in Chemistry from The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. A former postdoctoral researcher under Prof. Benjamin G. Levine at Stony Brook and lecturer at GC University Lahore (Best Teacher Award, 2014), he was a finalist for the NVIDIA GPU Award at the Fall 2023 ACS national meeting for GPU-accelerated methods simulating ultrafast spectra, and contributes to the NSF Center for Adapting Flaws into Features.