Cal Poly

Masters thesis

Current

  • Matthew Rydbeck
  • Tate Manley

Past

  • Yechan Kang, Thesis: Reverse Design of Solid Rocket Grain Geometry (2025).

Funded Projects

RSCA 2025-26

  • Victor Alcantara-Arias, Topic: accelerating finite element simulations using data-driven methods.

Former group members (IIT Bombay)

Ph.D. thesis

  • Dharamveer Kumar, Thesis: Mathematical Contributions to Orbital Free Density Functional Theory (2025).
  • Divyesh Mistry, Thesis: Multiscale Modeling of Prior Particle Boundaries in Nickel-based Superalloys (2025). Co-supervised by Prof. P.J. Guruprasad)
  • Geethesh N (Topology Optimization)

Masters thesis

  • Prasanth YSS. (Dual Degree thesis: Reduced discrete advected equations)
  • Jagriti Saha (M.Tech. project: Constitutive modeling using ML)
  • Mohammad Aman (M.Tech. project: Constitutive modeling using ML)
  • Neel Mani (M.Tech. project: Constitutive modeling using ML)
  • Priyanka Chaudhary (M.Tech. project: Erosion modeling; jointly with Prof. Chandra Sekher Yerramalli)
  • Arpitha Rathod (M.Tech. project: Experimental study of erosion; jointly with Prof. Chandra Sekher Yerramalli)
  • Prafull Pratap Bhosale (M.Tech. project: Adaptive and interpretable ML models for PDEs; jointly with Prof. Tanmay Bhandakkar)
  • Krishna Kishore Bokka (M.Tech. project: Constitutive modeling using ML)
  • Raviteja YS (M.Tech. project: Constitutive modeling using ML)
  • Shreyas GS (M.Tech. project: Constitutive modeling using ML)

Undergraduate thesis

  • Anurag Patel. (B.Tech. Project: Molecular Dynamics with PySPH; joint student with Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran)
  • Sargun Singh Sohal (B.Tech. project: Optimal Transport)
  • Aayush Sarraf (B.Tech. project: Developing a DRS system (cricket))
  • Rohit Thirupasur (B.Tech. project: Developing a DRS system (cricket))
  • Meghna Dixit (B.Tech. project: Numerical General Relativity, jointly with Prof. Shankaranarayanan)