Ahmed Mahmoud is a Senior Research Scientist with the Simulation, Optimization and Systems group at Autodesk Research, Toronto, Canada. His research interests involve parallel computing, geometry processing, and computer graphics with a focus on closing the gap between high-performance and ease-of-use. Ahmed is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis focusing on dynamic data structure for meshes on the GPU. Currently, he is working on a multi-GPU framework for accelerating volumetric computation.