Our Team

PhD Students

Rahul Meena

M.S., Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2024

M.Tech. & B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, 2018

Research interests: Amorphous Materials, Dimension Reduction, Generative Models, Surrogate Modeling, Machine Learning

Promit Chakroborty

M.S., Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2023

B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 2020

Research interests: Multifidelity Modeling, Estimator Variance Reduction & Sample Quality Improvement, Surrogate Modeling, Risk and Reliability

Himanshu Sharma

M.S. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2021

Research interests: Uncertainty Quantification, Machine Learning, Data-Driven Constitutive Modeling, Surrogate Modeling, Optimization, Composites

Cornelius Otchere

B.S. New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2022

Research interests: Multiscale Modeling, Active Learning, Surrogate Modeling

Boyuan Deng

M.Eng., Duke University, USA, 2024

Research interests: Uncertainty Quantification, Gaussian Processes, Multifidelity Surrogate Modeling, Bayesian Statistics, Multi-modal Data Integration

George John Joseph

B.Tech., National Institute of Technology Calicut, India, 2022

Research Interests: Uncertainty quantification, Gaussian process modeling, Scientific machine learning, Computational mechanics

Sumanta Roy

B.E. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2021

M.S. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, 2024

Research interests: Physics-informed Machine Learning, Probabilistic Machine Learning, Computational Mechanics

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sharmila Karumuri

Ph.D., Purdue University, USA, 2022

Edison Engineer, General Electric, India, 2014-2016

B.Tech–M.Tech (Dual Degree), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, 2014

Research Interests: Scientific machine learning, physics-informed and data-driven surrogate modeling, probabilistic machine learning, uncertainty quantification, materials discovery, and active learning.

Chenyang Li

Ph.D. Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, 2022

MEngSc (Research) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2016

B.S. Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2013

Research Interests: Micro-mechanics of quasi-brittle materials, Physics-informed and data-driven computational modeling

Tung Yan “Esther” Liu

Ph.D. Texas A&M University, 2023

M.S. Texas A&M University, 2018

B.S. University of Texas at Austin, 2016

Research Interests: Materials for nuclear and high-temperature applications, Atomistic simulations development for materials discovery, Physics-informed machine learning

George Pasparakis

Ph.D. Leibniz University Hannover, 2023

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, 2018

Research Interests: Stochastic Dynamics, Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian Neural Networks Computational Mechanics, Signal Processing

Adwait Sharma

Ph.D. & M.Tech (Research), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2024

B.E. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India, 2018

Research Interests: Monte Carlo Simulations and Variance Reduction Techniques, Rare Event Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, Scientific Machine Learning, Stochastic Structural Dynamical Systems, Computational Structural Reliability Modeling

Ponkrshnan Thiagarajan

Ph.D. Michigan Technological University, 2023

M.Tech IIT – Madras, 2017

B.E. Anna University – Chennai, 2015

Research Interests: Bayesian Neural networks, Uncertainty quantification, Scientific machine learning, Computational mechanics

Mohd Zaki

Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, 2025

B.Tech. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad, India, 2017

Research Interests: Amorphous materials, natural language processing, explainable machine learning, materials discovery, high-performance computing

Current Masters Students

  • Shreyashree Dutta
  • Shravya Dasu

Alumni

  • Postdoctoral Researchers
  • PhD
    • Mohit Chauhan
    • Lohit Vandanapu
    • Katiana Kontolati
    • Aakash Bangalore Satish
    • Jiaxin Zhang
    • Hwanpyo Kim
  • Masters
    • JP Connors
    • Yile Wang
    • Ziqi Tang
    • Yehao Liu
    • Connor Krill