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A computational scientist is a person skilled in scientific computing. This person is usually a scientist, a statistician, an applied mathematician, or an engineer who applies high-performance computing and sometimes cloud computing in different ways to advance the state-of-the-art in their respective applied disciplines; physics, chemistry, social sciences and so forth.

The computational scientist collaborates with research faculty and other research computing personnel on the development and innovative application of advanced simulation, data analysis, visual analytics or other computational techniques to research problems in the sciences, engineering, or other disciplines for which computational approaches are significant. As a computational scientist, you will – (i) build computational models and simulation models and (ii) develop and write algorithms using advanced mathematical and computational techniques that can be applied to solve complex scientific, technological, and engineering problems. Computational scientists are called in when studying a natural system (physical, chemical, biological, environmental, etc.) Or solving a complex scientific problem (such as out of 2,000 probable genes which one is responsible for a certain disease) require dealing with massive amount of data throughput – or putting it simply, a massive amount of data inputs and analysis. This kind of data analysis cannot be done by simple computing that we do using data analytic software on our computers but requires high-performance computing (hpc) or high-throughput computing (htc).  

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