Devina P. Sanjaya
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Scientific Computing and Fluid Dynamics Lab (SCFDL)
502 Dougherty Engineering Building
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
865-974-5309
dsanjaya [at] utk [dot] edu
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Recent News
My Ph.D. Student, Justin Weinmeister, presented his work on "An Open-Source Python Package for CFD Solution Verification" at ASME VVUQ 2025 (Apr. 2025)
I was invited to serve as a panelist for "WeLEAP Future Faculty Development Series: Succeeding in Faculty Jobs" hosted by WeLEAP and MIT RPA^3 (Mar. 2025)
I was invited to give a talk on "Understanding the Role of High-Order Nodes in Finite-Element Meshes" at Rice University's CMOR NASC RTG Seminar (Feb. 2025)
I started my service as the Chair of MVCE Student Paper Competition for the 2026 AIAA SciTech Forum and landed Flexcompute sponsorship (Jan. 2025)
I successfully completed my service as the Technical Discipline Chair of MVCE for the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum. More MVCE papers and joint sessions! (Jan. 2025)
SCFDL kicked off the year of 2025 with 2 papers presented at the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum by me and Trenton Henderson (Jan. 2025)
I was invited to give a talk on "A Path to High-Order CFD on Optimally Curved Meshes" at the Jameson-Kim-Wang Symposium (Dec. 2024, Group Photo)
For past news, see News Archive.
Research
Scalable, High-Order CFD Methods
Uncertainty Quantification and Scientific Machine Learning
Error Estimation
Mesh Adaptation, Optimization, and Generation
Education
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing (2019)
Advisor: Prof. Krzysztof J. Fidkowski
Dissertation: Towards Automated, Metric-Conforming, Mesh Optimization for High-Order, Finite-Element Methods
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with minor in Mathematics (2011)
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics (2014)
Professional Affiliations
MGB-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Early Career Fellow
UTK Office of the Provost Research Development Academy Scholar
Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE)
NASA Ames Research Center Visiting Scientists (Summer 2019, 2017, 2016)
Zonta International Amelia Earhart
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (WINASc)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)
Sponsors
