About Ming Zhou
Ming Zhou, Senior Vice President of Software Development - Structural Analysis and Optimization at Altair Engineering, delivered a welcome address for the OpenRadioss Users' Day 2025 on July 16, 2025. In his speech, Zhou stated that he and "GM Eric" were driving forces behind the decision three years ago to open source the industrial code, which he described as a "very brave step." He said the initiative focused from day one on building an engaged community and that the idea was discussed with companies and experts such as LM Sur and Paul Dubois, who responded positively. Zhou said the goal was to serve the global community and enable faster innovation, and he noted that the explicit dynamics analysis community faces new challenges such as electric vehicle and battery safety problems. He added that an open platform engaging with academic communities would open new directions for innovation. Zhou said the growth of the community and enthusiasm "proved that we did the right thing" and cited the open source model DeepSeek as an example of a strengthening global open source movement. He thanked attendees for contributing technically and on the application side.
In a September 2022 interview previewing the K trade fair, Zhou said Altair brings solutions enabling digital transformation of the entire process from material supply and carbon footprint data capture to engineering products that reduce carbon footprint. He stated that Altair resonates with the entire supply chain from material to product delivery and aims to build digital solutions that bring the operational phase of products back into the development cycle and circular economy. Zhou described circular economy and digitization as hot topics and expressed enthusiasm for face-to-face meetings with customers.
Source: AI-verified profile updated from Ming Zhou's recent appearances.
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Ming Zhou0:13
Hello everyone. I'm sorry I couldn't attend on site this time, but I thought I would like to share my thoughts to start this exciting user day. I think the launch video just set the perfect stage that we took a very brave step three years ago together with GM Eric. We were the driving forces making this quite a unique decision to basically open source proven industrial code, and from day one we focused on building an actively engaged community. Before we openly launched the initiative, we bounced the idea with some companies and also with experts like LM Sur and Paul Dubois, and they all responded very positively and enthusiastically. I think like Jim put it rightly in the video, for us we want to serve the global community and we want to enable faster innovation. That was the driving force behind the bold idea, and we felt that for the explicit dynamics analysis community we arrived at the point that the type of challenges we face demand new thinking and new solutions, like we face new types of problems with electric vehicles, battery safety, and so on. I think an open platform that engaged with academic communities actively will open new directions and new space for innovation. The growth of the community and the enthusiasm has proven that we did the right thing. If you look at the general direction, I think the open source global movement has become stronger with the type of big language models, for example DeepSeek, it's a completely open source model and it has gained a lot of momentum on the market. So all the global movement just shows that we are actually moving in the right direction. I want to thank everybody for actively engaging and growing this OpenRadioss community. It has been a fantastic journey, and three years I think is a small milestone. We can congratulate ourselves for the growth of the community and where we have arrived today. Marian also did a fantastic job driving the community engagement and broadening our message. So I want to congratulate everyone for being part of this growing community and contributing technically and on the application side and from every angle. I wish you a wonderful user day event with engaging exchanges and inspiring discussions. Thank you.
