Dr. Veera Sundararaghavan

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Veera Sundararaghavan is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where he is also the director of the Multiscale Structural Simulations Laboratory. His research specializes in multi-length scale computational techniques for modeling and designing aerospace materials, focusing on microstructural mechanics including crystal plasticity and homogenization, as well as molecular simulation. He is particularly interested in developing new computational techniques that could change materials science significantly, including applications of machine learning and quantum computing algorithms. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 2007 and holds a dual degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Professor Sundararaghavan has published over 100 journal articles and has made significant presentations nationally and internationally, contributing extensively to the field of integrated computational materials engineering. His work includes reduced order representations of microstructure-process-property relationships and the optimization of multiscale algorithms. He has received several prestigious awards throughout his career, including the NSF CAREER Award in 2010 and the DTRA Young Investigator Award in 2012.

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