Pawan Negi
Pawan Negi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Applied
Mathematics, Illinois institute of Technology. He has been teaching
mathematics courses to undergraduate students since last year. He earned his
PhD at IIT Bombay. He has used automan extensively in his
research for many years.
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In research involving any kind of computer simulation, we often have to
execute several simulations that might become a part of the final manuscript.
It is found that automating these simulations and their post-processing
introduces significant personal benefit in the form of improving research
output and productivity. Automation makes it much easier to run large
parameter sweeps and studies and allows you to focus on the important
questions to ask rather than managing hundreds or thousands of simulations
manually. This takes the drudgery of data/file management out of your hands,
systematizes your research, and makes it possible to incrementally improve and
refine your work. The added nice benefit is that your research also becomes
much easier to reproduce.