# Eric Leonard

> Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ericleonard

PhD in Mechanical Engineering specializing in machine learning, AI and computer vision with background in computational fluid dynamics.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Siemens Energy
Jan 2025 – Present

### Computer Vision Engineer @ Simerse
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025

### Simulation Sofware Engineer @ Rendered.AI
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Intern @ Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, MA
•	Computational fluid dynamics internship
•	Studied incompressible fluid dynamics with heat transfer effects
•	Generated meshes for complex, 3D geometries 
•	Implemented Fast Fluid Dynamics algorithm into OpenFOAM using C++
•	Experimented with the implementation of different interpolation routines

### PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering @ University of Maryland
Jan 2011 – Jan 2018 | College Park, Maryland
•	Research Area: Computational and Theoretical Fluid Turbulence
•	Research Activities: Worked with a large computer code written in C, C++, and Fortran, Wrote original Matlab codes to analyze fluid flow data
•	Key coursework: Computer Organization and Programming for Scientific Computing, Computational Fluid Dynamics
•	Skills and Experience Acquired: C, C++, Fortran, Matlab, Autotools, MPI Parallelism, GPU Parallelism, CUDA C, High-Performance Computing, Linux, Python
•	Completed M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, August 2012

### Graduate Course Grader @ University of Maryland
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | College Park, Maryland

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Maryland
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | College Park, Maryland

### Environmental Modeling Undergraduate Researcher @ Brown University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Providence, Rhode Island
Investigated a computational model of the Earth's atmosphere using in-house code written in Python

### Financial Engineering Researcher @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Developed a model for the foreign exchange market

### Quantitative Research Intern @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | New York, New York
Investigated hedging strategies for complex barrier options

### Quantitative Research Intern @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | New York, New York
Developed Matlab codes related to quantitative finance


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland

### Master of Science (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Physics
Brown University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eric-leonard-80514b88

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Last updated: 2026-04-05