Hello and welcome! 👋
I’m Uthpala, a postdoc in the Ab-Initio Materials Simulations (AIMS) group at Duke University. As a computational physicist, I currently focus on developing and applying computational methods and frameworks to design, discover and characterize novel materials.
This website serves as my digital corner in cyberspace where I share insights and musings about my research and other interests through my blog. You can explore a list of my publications derived from my research endeavors and a portfolio of projects I have contributed to. For an in-depth overview of my professional journey, please refer to my CV. Learn about the talks I’ve given over the years and check out the about page for a more personal glimpse into my life and passions.
I invite you to browse, read, and interact. Whether it’s a thoughtful comment on a blog post or a question about my research, I would love to hear from you!
Announcing the upcoming release of our podcast where we talk about our experiences as grad students and postdocs at Duke University and provide information o...
Efficient resource monitoring is key to maximizing HPC performance. In this post, I explore techniques for advanced resource monitoring on HPC clusters and p...
This is a quick and simple recipe to roast pumpkin seeds.
A simple tutorial on embedding a video gallery in a Minimal Mistakes themed Jekyll website.
This brief tutorial provides an introduction to using Atomate2 to set up DFT workflows with the FHI-aims code.
A short tutorial on automating recurring tasks on Unix systems with Cron.
This post serves as a short catch-up and a quick fix to a Latex rendering issue I recently noticed on my web posts.
A tutorial on calculating diffusion energy barriers.
A tutorial on plotting Density of States for electronic structure calculations.
Classification of Perovskites of different symmetries based on their atomic positioning.
Creating visually appealing documents with Markdown, Pandoc and Pdflatex.