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Principal Investigator
Vikram Gavini
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
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Education:Ph.D Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2007
M.S. Applied Mechanics, California Institute of Technology, 2004
B.Tech Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 2003
Research Interests:Electronic structure calculations at macroscopic scales; Electronic structure studies on defects in materials; Quantum transport (algorithms and applications); Analysis of multi-scale methods; open-source DFT-FE code development.
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1640 G.G. Brown
(734) 763-9685
vikramg@umich.edu |
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Research Scientists
Sambit Das
Assistant Research Scientist of Mechanical Engineering
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Education: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2019
Research Interests: DFT studies on defects in crystalline materials; Numerical algorithms; open-source DFT-FE code development.
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Bikash Kanungo
Assistant Research Scientist of Mechanical Engineering
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Education: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing, University of Michigan, 2019
Research Interests: Algorithms for all-electron DFT calculation; Algorithms for time dependent DFT; Inverse problems in DFT.
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Students
Paavai Pari, PhD Candidate
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Joined: Fall 2017
Education: B.Tech Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Trichy, 2017
Research Interests: Long time-scale simulations; Exponential propagators; Numerical analysis.
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Arghadwip Paul, PhD pre-Candidate
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Joined: Winter 2023
Education: M.Sc. Simulation Sciences, RWTH Aachen University, 2021; B.Tech Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, 2018
Research Interests: Mathematical modeling for computational chemistry; Machine learning.
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Avirup Sircar, PhD pre-Candidate
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Joined: Winter 2023
Education: M.Tech & B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharaghpur, 2022
Research Interests: Large-scale electronic structure calculations using enriched finite element basis
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Vishal Subramanian, PhD Candidate
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Joined: Winter 2020
Education: M.Tech & B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2019
Research Interests: Algorithms and HPC aspects of DFT-FE.
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Past Group Members
Research Scientists & Postdoctoral Scholars
Chih-Chuen Lin 2021-2022, Postdoctoral Scholar
Presently: Intel Corporation Website
Krishnendu Ghosh 2017-2019, Postdoctoral Scholar
Presently: Intel Corporation Website
Phani Motamarri 2015-2019, Assistant Research Scientist; 2014-2015, Postdoctoral Scholar
Presently: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Website
Doctoral Students
Chih-Chuen Lin 2021, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing (Rackham International Student Fellowship (2017))
Presently: Intel Corporation
Nelson Rufus 2021, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
Presently: Mathworks
Nathan Vaughn 2020, Ph.D. Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics, and Scientific Computing
Presently: Postdoctoral scholar, LANL
Bikash Kanungo 2019, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing
Presently: Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan
Sambit Das 2019, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Beyster Computational Innovation Fellowship)
Presently: Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan
Janakiraman Balachandran 2014, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
Presently: Website
Mrinal Iyer 2014, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing (Azharkin Fellowship (2010), Rackham International Student Fellowship (2011))
Presently: Website
Phani Motamarri 2014 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship (2013))
Presently: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Website
Balachandran Radhakrishnan 2014, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
Presently: Website
Masters Students
Rohit Jain 2013, M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Presently: Website
Lionel Prinsloo Candidate Engineer, South Africa
Bachelors Students
Jiani Fei 2021, B.S. in Interdisciplinary Physics and Computer Science
Presently: Graduate Student, Stanford University
Shukan Parekh 2020, B.S.E Mechanical Engineering
Presently: Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Mike Nowak 2013, B.S.E Computer Engineering
Presently: IC Design Engineer at Broadcom
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