Professor Paul Richmond

About

Dr Richmond is a research focused Research Software Engineer who has recently been awarded one of only six EPSRC Early Career Research Software Engineering (RSE) Fellowships. The focus of this fellowship is in facilitating the use of accelerated architectures such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate scientific discovery.He is developing software techniques, a provision of skills and training material and building a community to help drive the use of accelerators into mainstream science and engineering.

Selected publications

• Borau C, Chisholm R & Richmond P (2026) Cellfoundry: A GPU-accelerated, multi-physics ABM framework for cellular microenvironment and organoid-scale studies. Array, 31, 101107-101107.
• Baccega D, Terrone I, Heywood P, Chisholm R, Richmond P, Contaldo SG, Bosio L, Pernice S & Beccuti M (2025) Forge4Flame: An intuitive dashboard for designing GPU agent-based models to simulate infectious disease spread. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 145, 103205-103205.
• Smilovitskiy M, Olmez S, Richmond P, Chisholm R, Heywood P, Cabrejas A, van den Berghe S & Kobayashi S (2025) FLAME-GPU for traffic systems: a scalable agent-based simulation framework. Systems, 13(5). View this article in WRRO
• Wertheim KY, Chisholm R, Richmond P & Walker D (2024) Multicellular model of neuroblastoma proposes unconventional therapy based on multiple roles of p53. PLOS Computational Biology, 20(12). View this article in WRRO
• Borau C, Chisholm R, Richmond P & Walker D (2024) An agent-based model for cell microenvironment simulation using FLAMEGPU2. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 179. View this article in WRRO
• Hayes S, Charlton J, Fletcher D & Richmond P (2024) Validation of agent-based passenger movement modeling for railway stations subject to social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Transportation Research Record, 2678(12), 126-138. View this article in WRRO
• Borau C, Wertheim KY, Hervas-Raluy S, Sainz-DeMena D, Walker D, Chisholm R, Richmond P, Varella V, Viceconti M, Montero A , Gregori-Puigjané E et al (2023) A multiscale orchestrated computational framework to reveal emergent phenomena in neuroblastoma. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 241. View this article in WRRO
• Chowdhury AA, Kesserwani G, Rougé C & Richmond P (2023) GPU-parallelisation of Haar wavelet-based grid resolution adaptation for fast finite volume modelling: application to shallow water flows. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 25(4), 1210-1234. View this article in WRRO
• Richmond P, Chisholm R, Heywood P, Chimeh MK & Leach M (2023) FLAME GPU 2: a framework for flexible and performant agent based simulation on GPUs. Software: Practice and Experience.
• Shirvani M, Kesserwani G & Richmond P (2021) Agent-based simulator of dynamic flood-people interactions. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 14(2). View this article in WRRO