Devina P. Sanjaya
Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE) Department
502 Dougherty Engineering Building
865-974-5309
dsanjaya at utk dot edu
Scientific Computing and Fluid Dynamics Lab (SCFDL)
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Recent News
My proposal to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Computational Math Program was selected for funding (Sept. 2024)
Aidan Lay, was awarded MABE UGRA Scholarship to study uncertainty quantification and machine learning for CFD (Sept. 2024)
SCFDL hosted an REU student to do aerodynamics research for improving the versatility of drones, funded by the National Science Foundation (May - Aug. 2024)
Nicole Nutter received the AIAA Best Student Paper Award in CFD - 2nd Place at the 2024 AIAA Aviation (Jul. 2024)
For past news, see News Archive.
Research
Scalable, high-order CFD methods
Uncertainty quantification and machine learning
Error estimation
Mesh adaptation, optimization, and generation
Education
"Education gives you the right to knock on a door, but it's up to you on how to turn that knock into a valuable experience that will lead you to the next door of opportunities."
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing (2019)
Advisor: 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)
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)