Vikram Gavini

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics

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. Curriculum Vitae Contact Information: Office: Telephone: Email: Department of Mechanical Engineering, EECS 3217 (734) 763-9685 vikramg@umich.edu

Balachandran G. Radhakrishnan, PhD Student

Joined: Winter 2008 Education: M.Tech. Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2007 Research Interests: Electronic structure studies of dislocations in crystals; Electronic structure calculations at continuum length scales; Quasi-continuum OFDFT calculations with kernel functionals in real space.

Mrinal Iyer, PhD Student

Joined: Fall 2008 Education: B.Tech. Naval Architecture, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2008 Research Interests: Field theoretic approach to quasi-continuum method; Robust finite-element framework for quasi-continuum OFDFT calculations; Electronic structure calculations to understand the energetics of reactive multi-layer nano films.

Phani Sudheer Motamarri, PhD Student

Joined: Fall 2009 Education: M.Engg. Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, 2007 Research Interests: O(N) complexity algorithms for real space finite element formulation of KS-DFT; Mathematical analysis of approximation methods used in DFT; Quasi-continuum framework with KS-DFT as the input physics; Application of KS-DFT to develop insights into material behaviour. Website

Janakiraman Balachandran, PhD Student

Joined: Fall 2009 Education: M.Eng Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2009 Research Interests: Ab-initio calculations of non-equilibrium systems; Development and mathematical analysis of numerical techniques (Ex: TD-DFT, NEGF) to study quantum transport in materials; Thermoelectric effect in metal-molecule-metal junctions. Website

Lionel Prinsloo, PhD Student

Joined: Winter 2012 Education: M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Pretoria, 2011 Research Interests: Numerical aspects of finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory

Mike Nowak, Undergraduate Student

Joined: Fall 2010 Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, University of Michigan (in progress) Research Interests: Anything and everything physics related.