Spencer H. Bryngelson
Walker Scholar
Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
Computational Fluid DynamicsBiography
Spencer Bryngelson is faculty in Mechanical Engineering. His group works to resolve grand challenge engineering problems via predictive simulation and scalable, high-fidelity algorithms. He is the institutional PI for two DOE PSAAP IV centers on this topic. Spencer has been a visitor at Pacific Northwest National Lab, Stanford, and MIT. Prior, he was a postdoc at Caltech, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has received a 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize finalist designation and the ORAU Powe Award for Junior Faculty, the Illinois Outstanding Dissertation award, and the Hassan Aref prize for fluid dynamics research, among others. He serves on the executive board of the OLCF User Group.