Frank Ham
R&D Fellow, Physical System Design and Analysis,
Cadence
Frank Ham is R&D Fellow for Physical System Design and Analysis at Cadence. He joined Cadence about 4 years ago when Cascade Technologies was acquired by Cadence, bringing in high-fidelity GPU-accelerated CFD technology. Frank was CEO at Cascade. Prior to Cascade, Frank was Senior Research Scientist and Chief Software Architect at Stanford’s Center for Turbulence Research. Since his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in Canada on Large Eddy Simulation over 25 years ago, Frank’s career has been dedicated to “principled simulation”: making it both accurate enough, and fast enough to drive real engineering decisions.
Sessions
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Scaling Physical AI: Five Questions Worth Asking16-Sep-2026Physical AI Track