​Dr. Kelly Senecal is a co-founder and owner of Convergent Science. He is one of the original developers of CONVERGE, the industry-leading CFD software for internal combustion engine simulations. Senecal is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers, an incoming member of the ASME ICED Executive Committee, and the 2019 recipient of the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Award. In addition to his role at Convergent Science, Senecal is an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director and co-founder of the Computational Chemistry Consortium (C3). Senecal has authored nearly 100 research papers, which have garnered over 3,000 citations. Senecal has long been an advocate of creating cleaner combustion engines and speaks to audiences around the globe on this topic. Recently, he started the “Hug Your Engine" movement, which advocates for going green by improving the internal combustion engine.