Filippos Filippitzis
Software Development Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software
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Thessaloniki, Greece
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Github
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About
I am a Software Development Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software, where I design and implement mesh and geometry algorithms for HyperMesh, the industry-leading FEA preprocessing solution within the Altair HyperWorks suite. I continued in the same role following Altair's acquisition by Siemens in 2026.
My work is at the intersection of engineering and software, my goal is to deliver efficient solutions, to complex engineering challenges, that drive both technical excellence and real-world impact.
My technical background spans finite element analysis, digital twins, structural health monitoring, and earthquake ground motion response — applied across both research and production engineering software.
I hold a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, 2020), advised by Professors Thomas H. Heaton and Monica D. Kohler, with committee members Professors Domniki Asimaki and Robert W. Clayton. My doctoral research focused on two areas: post-earthquake structural damage identification in instrumented steel buildings, combining dense sensor network measurements with high-fidelity finite element models and sparse Bayesian learning; and ground-motion site response analysis for urban Los Angeles using recordings from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, evaluating 3D finite difference simulations and ground motion prediction equations.
I received my Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece). My thesis focused on aerosol transport and deposition modelling, under the supervision of Professor Vasilis Bontozoglou.
Recent projects and teaching are presented in more detail at the /Research page.
My journal/conference/thesis publications, are available at /Publications.
For a summary of my past studies and work, you can find my CV here.
