SpencerBryngelson

Spencer Bryngelson
Associate Professor

Research Areas
  • Thermal Fluids Systems and Transport Phenomena
Research Interests

Computational physics, numerical methods, fluid dynamics, high performance computing

About

Spencer H. Bryngelson is an Associate Professor and Walker Scholar in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and a core faculty member of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. His group works to resolve grand challenge engineering problems via predictive simulation and scalable, high-fidelity algorithms. He is the institutional PI for two DOE PSAAP IV centers on this topic. Spencer has been a visitor at Pacific Northwest National Lab, Stanford, and MIT. Prior, he was a postdoc at Caltech, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has received a 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize designation and the ORAU Powe Award for Junior Faculty, the Illinois Outstanding Dissertation award, and the Hassan Aref prize for fluid dynamics research, among others. He serves on the executive board of the OLCF User Group.

Educational Qualifications

  •  Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 2017
  • M.S., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 2015
  • Certificate, Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 2015
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan–Dearborn, 2013
  • B.S., Engineering Mathematics, University of Michigan–Dearborn, 2013

Select Awards & Honors

  • NATO Science and Technology Organization Excellence Award (2026)
  • ACM Gordon Bell Prize Finalist (2025)
  • OLCF User Group Visualization Showcase Winner (2025)
  • Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2022)
  • Stanley Weiss Outstanding Dissertation Award (2018)
  • Hassan Aref Award for Research in Fluid Mechanics (2016)

Select Publications

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