

Jón Tómas Grétarsson, Ph.D.
Box, Inc900 Jefferson Ave.
Redwood City, CA 94063
jon.gretarsson@gmail.com
Professional
- Senior Staff Engineer, Box, Inc, June 2018—current.
- Principal Architect, Progressly, Inc (acquired), June 2017—June 2018.
- Architect, Salesforce.com, Inc, July 2014—June 2017.
- Software Engineer, RelateIQ, Inc (acquired), June 2012—July 2014.
Education
- Ph.D., Stanford University, Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, March 2012.
- B.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science, May 2006.
Publications
Patents
- Ankush Goyal, Shardul Vikram, Nathaniel Richard Price, Sudarshan Vijay Sarolkar, Scott Walter Bishel, Praveen Innamuri, Jon Tomas Gretarsson. Synergizing real-time and polling connectors for data ingestion. US2018/0253458 A1, Filed 3 Mar 2017. Patent Pending.
- Kedao Wang, Jón Tómas Grétarsson, Adam Evans, Jason Li. Automatic generation of dynamically assigned conditional follow-up tasks. US-9,762,520 B2, Filed 27 Jul 2015 and Issued 12 Sep, 2017.
Computational Physics
- J. Grétarsson and R. Fedkiw, Fully Conservative Leak-proof Treatment of Thin Solid Structures Immersed in Compressible Fluids, Journal of Computational Physics 245, 160-204 (2013). [DOI] [PDF]
- K.G. Wang, J. Grétarsson, A. Main, and C. Farhat, Computational Algorithms for Tracking Dynamic Fluid-Structure Interfaces in Embedded Boundary Methods, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 70, Issue 4, 515-535 (2012). [DOI]
- J. Grétarsson, N. Kwatra and R. Fedkiw, Numerically Stable Fluid-Structure Interactions Between Compressible Flow and Solid Structures, Journal of Computational Physics 230, 3062-3084 (2011). [DOI] [PDF]
- M. Lentine, J. Grétarsson and R. Fedkiw, An Unconditionally Stable Fully Conservative Semi-Lagrangian Method, Journal of Computational Physics 230, 2857-2879 (2011). [DOI] [PDF]
- N. Kwatra, J. Su, J. Grétarsson and R. Fedkiw, A Method for Avoiding the Acoustic Time-Step Restriction in Compressible Flow, Journal of Computational Physics 228, 4146-4161 (2009). [DOI] [PDF]
Computer Graphics
- M. Lentine, J. Grétarsson, C. Schroeder, A. Robinson-Mosher and R. Fedkiw, Creature Control in a Fluid Environment, IEEE TVCG 17, 682-693 (2011). [DOI] [PDF] [Movie]
- N. Kwatra, J. Grétarsson and R. Fedkiw, Practical Animation of Compressible Flow for Shock Waves and Related Phenomena, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), pp. 207-215 (2010). [DOI] [PDF] [Movie]
- A. Robinson-Mosher, T. Shinar, J. Grétarsson, J. Su and R. Fedkiw, Two-way Coupling of Fluids to Rigid and Deformable Solids and Shells, ACM TOG 27, 46.1-46.9 (SIGGRAPH 2008). [DOI] [PDF] [Movie]
Conference Proceedings
- K.G. Wang, J. Grétarsson, A. Main, and C. Farhat, Computational Algorithms for Tracking Dynamic Fluid-Structure Interfaces in Embedded/Immersed Boundary Methods, 20th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2011. [PDF]
Miscellaneous
- J. Grétarsson, F. Li, M. Li, A. Samant, H. Wu, M. Claypool, and R. Kinicki, Performance Analysis of the Intertwined Effects Between Network Layers for 802.11g Transmissions, WMuNeP: Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling, pg. 123-130; October 2005. [PDF]
- J. Grétarsson, A. Lash, and M. Forrest, Serving All Types of Learners, Technical Report JMW-SLEW. Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Spring 2006.
- J. Grétarsson, M. Putnam, and M. Shaw, Wargaming Modeling and Visualization, Technical Report MXC-1082. Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fall 2005.