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Vikram Gavini is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Materials Science Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on Computational Material Physics, particularly in developing algorithms and computational frameworks for large-scale ab-initio calculations to understand materials properties. He has made significant contributions in areas such as electronic structure studies on defects in solids, high-performance computing aspects of electronic structure calculations, and multi-scale modeling. His work has garnered recognition, including the ACM Gordon Bell Prize and the NSF CAREER Award. He has been awarded multiple fellowships, including the Humboldt Research Fellowship, and has been involved in pioneering research that connects quantum mechanics and mechanics in predictive computations related to materials behavior. Gavini has a solid academic background with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and he emphasizes innovative approaches in material simulation, contributing to the advancement of scientific computing techniques in the field.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science