Shields Uncertainty Research Group deals with wide-ranging problems in computational physics, mechanics, and materials science. Our broad interest is in the influence of uncertainties on complex physical systems. As such, the breadth of applications is very wide and benefit tremendously from collaborations with expertise in diverse domains. Below is a list of several ongoing projects in the group.
Active Projects

Center on High Throughput Materials Discovery for Extremes (HT-MAX)
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Mohd Zaki, George Pasparakis
Materials Science in Extreme Environments (MSEE)
Defence Threat Reduction Agency
Himanshu Sharma, Esther Liu, Chenyang Li


Physics and Uncertainty Informed Latent Operator Learning
Department of Energy
Sumanta Roy, Bahadur Bahmani, Ponkrshnan Thiagarajan, Connor Krill
RAPID: Assessing Bridge Collapse Risk – Learning from the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse, March 2024
Promit Chakroborty, Adwait Sharma, Shreyashree Dutta, Yile Wang

Collaborative Research: DMREF: Simulation-Informed Models for Amorphous Metal Manufacturing
Rahul Meena
Collaborative Research: Extreme Mechanics of the Human Brain via Integrated In Vivo and Ex Vivo Mechanical Experiments
National Science Foundation
Boyuan Deng


Concurrent Surrogate Model Development with Uncertainty Quantification in the MOOSE Framework Using Physics-Informed Gaussian-Process Machine Learning
Department of Energy
George John Joseph
NHERI Computational Modeling and Simulation Center (SimCenter)
National Science Foundation


Uncertainty Quantification and Machine Learning Methods for Stochastic Hierarchical Multi-scale Modeling
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Cornelius Otchere