Vice President & Chief Software Developer
Optim
200 S. Virginia Street
Suite 560
Reno, NV 89501
Phone: (775) 236-5891
Fax: (775) 324-5662
Email: satish@optimsoftware.com
Satish Pullammanappallil is the Vice-President, CTO, and co-founder of Optim. He holds a BS & MS degree in Geophysics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Nevada, Reno, Seismological Laboratory. His doctoral dissertation focussed on developing and applying simulated annealing algorithms for optimization of seismic refraction, reflection and earthquake data. After his graduation, he spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Rice University, Houston, Texas, working on understanding scattering and wave propagation in heterogeneous media and modeling the Earth as a fractal media. He then had a brief stint as a geophysicist at William Lettis & Associates, a Bay Area geo-sciences consulting firm.
During early 1998, along with Mr. Honjas, Dr. Pullammanappallil started Optim. It began its life in the technology incubator at the University of Nevada, Reno, campus set up under the auspices of the Nevada Applied Research Initiative. It has since grown into two offices (Reno and Las Vegas) and a world wide community of users and clients.
Optim’s SeisOpt software suite is being used by geotechnical and engineering companies to accurately,rapidly and economically reveal complex Earth structure that could affect design and construction of structures. It’s SeisOpt ReMi product is rapidly becoming the industry standard for assessing damage and shaking potential in the event of an earthquake. SeisOpt velocity optimization and prestack depth migration methodology is also being used by the geothermal industry to increase drill success rates thereby reducing the risk and cost associated with geothermal development. They have been successfully applied to geothermal fields in various geological settings.
Dr. Pullammanappallil’s duties include ovesight of technical and field personnel, project management and leading research and development at Optim and its subsidiaries. In his capacity as CFO he also manages the finances of the company. He continues to lead Optim’s research in developing new products including cluster computing, GPU processing, 3D extension of existing imaging and surface wave techniques and 3D visualization technology. His research has been published in peer-reviewd journals such as Geophysical Research Letter, Geophysics, Geology, Tectonophysics, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, the Journal of Geophysical Research, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, and the Geothermal Research Council proceedings. He has served as technical reviewer for articles published in Geophysics. He has been the co-principal investigator of projects funded by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). He holds an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor position at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory and is on the dissertation committee of Ph.D. and MS students at the Lab. He continues to co-author papers and presentations at scientific meetings.