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United States

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PhD Researcher in CFD & ML | HPC Expert | Consultant in Engineering Simulations, Sustainability, and Energy Systems

Profile Summary

I’m a Mechanical Engineering PhD researcher and MBA candidate specializing in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Machine Learning (ML), and High-Performance Computing (HPC). I consult on simulation, modeling, and data-driven R&D projects across sustainability, energy, and defense sectors. My work spans national labs, public-private innovation projects, and academia. I develop in Python/C++, conduct sensor-based environmental analysis, and apply AI to physical systems. Available for technical writing, simulation consulting, and applied research collaboration.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Analytical Chemistry
• ☆ Agricultural Engineering
• ☆ Engineering Physics
• ☆ Computational Fluid Dynamics
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Big Data Analytics
• ☆ Machine Learning
• ☆ Computational Physics

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing

Research Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Digital Strategy Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Image Processing, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Visualization

Product Development Formulation, Product Validation, Prototyping, Reverse Engineering

Work Experience

Iowa State University

- Present

Graduate Research Assistant/PhD Candidate

Iowa State University

August 2022 - Present

Mechanical Engineering Intern

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

May 2024 - August 2024

Mechanical Engineering Intern

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

May 2024 - July 2024

Education

MBA

University of the People

November 2023 - Present

PhD (Mechanical Engineering)

Iowa State University

January 2024 - December 2026

MEng (Mechanical Engineering)

Iowa State University

August 2022 - August 2025

Master of Engineering

Iowa State University

August 2022 - August 2025

Bachelors (Mechanical Engineering)

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Engineering

October 2017 - June 2021

Certifications

• Drone pilot

  Federal Aviation Authority

  January 2023 - Present

Publications

PREPRINT

James Afful(2025). A Review of HPC-Accelerated CFD in National Security and Defense . arXiv

James Afful(2025). ExplainBench: A Benchmark Framework for Local Model Explanations in Fairness-Critical Applications . arXiv

JOURNAL ARTICLE

James Afful, Muhammad Arbab Arshad, Talukder Jubery, Anushrut Jignasu, Aditya Balu, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Soumik Sarkar, Adarsh Krishnamurthy (2024). Evaluating Neural Radiance Fields for 3D Plant Geometry Reconstruction in Field Conditions . Plant Phenomics.