# Trond S. Ingebrigtsen

> Staff Software Engineer @ Zoox | Behavior Compute

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/trond

About:
Previously Associate Professor in Soft Matter Physics working with CUDA since 2009. Authored 30 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Nat. Commun., Phys. Rev. X, Phys. Rev. Lett., etc.

Interests: 
Autonomous vehicles, scientific computing, deep neural networks, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, glass physics, GPU programming.

Programming:
Modern C++. CUDA C++. Python.

Scientific output:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7129-071X
Articles: 30. Citations: 1120. h-index: 18.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Zoox
Jan 2026 – Present | Фостер Сити, CA

### Senior Software Engineer @ Zoox
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | Фостер Сити, CA
-- GPU motion planning algorithms and their latency optimization.

-- Multi-GPU algorithmic design and performance.

-- Next-gen planner architecture design.

-- DNN inference optimization (quantization, etc).

-- CUDA kernel profiling and latency optimization. CUDA training courses and tooling.

### Associate Professor in Physics @ Roskilde University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Roskilde, Denmark
-- Applied free-energy calculations to identify universal viscosity and diffusion coefficient relations for bulk metallic liquids. Probed excitations in deeply supercooled liquids. 2 publs. (Nat. Commun.).  

-- Showed that physical aging is controlled by one parameter in simulations for predicting out-of-equilibrium aging behavior of materials. 2 publications (e.g., Sci. Adv.).

-- Simulation studies of Gay-Berne liquid crystals, nanoconfinement, size/energy polydisperse liquids and identifying them as Roskilde-simple liquids. 6 publications.

-- Supervised 1 Ph.D., 1 M.Sc., 2 B.Sc., and 4 summer-student projects. Planned and taught: 'Classical Mechanics' x1, 'Quantum Mechanics' x3. Chaired 1 Ph.D. committee.

-- Organized ’Topical Meeting on Molecular Dynamics. III-VI.’ (50 participants).

### JSPS Postdoc in Physics @ The University of Tokyo
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Tokyo, Japan
-- Identified a basic crystallization mechanism in supercooled liquids and the relevant structural changes during shear thinning (viscosity decrease during shear flow) using excess entropy. Identification of the very slow time scale of shear thinning. 3 publications (e.g., PNAS and Phys. Rev. X).

-- Studies of size/energy polydisperse liquids and identifying them as Roskilde-simple liquids. 2 publications.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Physics
Roskilde University

### Master's degree in Chemistry
Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen

### Bachelor's degree in Chemistry / Computer-science
Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/trond-sylvan-ingebrigtsen

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Last updated: 2026-04-12