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Aiden Woodruff aiden@aidenw.net

I am a Computer Science masters student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My hobbies include programming, singing, and gaming. I also play for the RPI Rugby team. I am currently researching adaptive methods for hyper-sonic flow problems under Onkar Sahni at SCOREC.

I received the Class of 1902 Research Prize at RPI's 219th Commencement in 2025.

Projects

SUPG Stabilization for Advection-Diffusion with MFEMAiden WoodruffDec 2025Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Course project for Finite Element Methods at RPI. I implemented a custom linear SUPG integrator for advection-diffusion in MFEM. I produced a report and presented my results in class.

Confirmation bias and tipping points in social conventionAiden WoodruffDec 2025Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Course project for Frontiers of Network Science at RPI focused on experimentally determining a tipping point for social conventions. The project used the C++ SNAP library to simulate a name game over long time periods. I presented a paper review and preliminary results and later produced a more complete report.

TeamFeedbackAidan Hoover and Aiden WoodruffRCOS Summer 2023 project A Dockerized web application written in Go to ease the submission and review of feedback for teams. Initially requested and designed for the RPI IED course.

Publications

Towards Automatic Construction of 3D Shock-fitted Meshes based on Robust Shock Detection and Processing Aiden Woodruff and Onkar SahniJan 8, 2026AIAA SciTech Forum 2026

Robust and Automatic Shock Detection and Processing in High-speed Flow Simulations Aiden P. Woodruff and Onkar SahniJan 3, 2025AIAA SciTech Forum 2025

AI/ML-Assisted Robust Shock Processing for CFD ApplicationsOnkar Sahni, Sharat Val, Aiden Woodruff and Arshad ChowdhuryJan 3, 2025AIAA SciTech Forum 2025

In-Memory Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation for Hypersonic Problems With Evolving Geometry Mikiel Gica, Aiden Woodruff, Cameron Brown, Giovanni Salazar and Onkar Sahni Jan 3, 2025AIAA SciTech Forum 2025

Presentations

Towards Automatic Construction of 3D Shock-fitted Meshes based on Robust Shock Detection and Processing Aiden Woodruff and Onkar SahniJan 16, 2026AIAA SciTech Forum 2026

Graphs, AI/ML and Adaptivity-based Meshing for Accurate Prediction of Surface Heating in Hypersonic Flow Problems Aiden Woodruff, Sharat Val, Mikiel Gica, M Arshad Zahangir Chowdhury and Onkar Sahni Jul 21, 202518th USNCCM 2025

Robust and Automatic Shock Detection and Processing in High-speed Flow Simulations Aiden P. Woodruff and Onkar SahniJan 7, 2025AIAA SciTech Forum 2025

Modeling fish thermal-optimal growth in a warming world: Insights from Lake George Aiden P. Woodruff, Jonathan J. Borrelli, Jonathan T. StetlerApr 19, 2023RPI School of Science Undergraduate Research Fair 2023

Contributions

pysimplesoap Python simple and lightweight SOAP library for client and server webservices interfaces. I fixed an error with their dependency version checking that affected me downstream.

SCOREC/core The SCOREC Core is a set of C/C++ libraries for unstructured mesh simulations on supercomputers. While working at SCOREC, I helped integrate their software with Capstone , improve cross-platform support, add tests, and clean up code.

Games

LifeAiden Woodruff A terminal implementation of Conway's Game of Life, using NCurses and written C, with support for different rulesets.

SpaceAttack!Aiden Woodruff The first game I made in 2015. It started as a text game where an "A" was moved around the bottom of the screen and fired at a "V" at the top. It has since evolved into an SDL2-based graphical application, but hasn't seen much work since 2020.