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Anirudh Modi was born in Ranchi, India on $3^\textrm{rd}$ April, 1975.
He did his schooling with Shrimati Sulochanadevi Singhania High School
in Thane, Maharashtra. He graduated from high school at the Ruparel
College, Bombay, India in 1993. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology
in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay in April 1997. After a short summer stint as a Project Engineer at his
alma mater, he enrolled in the M.S. program at the Department
of Aerospace Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, USA
in August 1997. There he was a recipient of the Institute for High
Performance Computing Applications (IHPCA) Fellowship and the Rotorcraft
Center of Excellence (RCOE) Fellowship. He received his Master of
Science degree in Aerospace Engineering with emphasis on Computational
Fluid Dynamics in May 1999 and then went on to enroll in the Ph.D.
program at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the
Pennsylvania State University. Anirudh's research interests are in the
field of software engineering with special interests in computational
steering and high performance computing. He is a member of the AIAA and
the IEEE. He is married to Sushmita Poddar.
