Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Joint Faculty Appointment with the Department of Mathematics
Scientific Computing and Fluid Dynamics Lab (SCFDL)
502 Dougherty Engineering Building
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
865-974-5309 o dsanjaya [at] utk [dot] edu
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My Ph.D. Student, Justin Weinmeister, presented his work on "A Comparison of Regression and Bounding for Richardson Extrapolation-Based Discretization Error Estimators" at ASME VVUQ 2026 (May 2026)
I was selected to be the Deputy Chair of AIAA MVCE Technical Committee (May 2026)
I assumed the role as the Chair of the MVCE Student Paper Competition for the 2027 AIAA SciTech Forum. I secured continued sponsorship from Flexcompute (Jan. 2025)
I presented 1 applied aerodynamics paper (supported by NSF-REU), 1 aerospace education paper (supported by NSF-REU), and 1 meshing paper (supported by AFOSR Computational Mathematics) at the 2026 AIAA SciTech Forum (Jan. 2025)
My Ph.D. Student, Nicole Nutter, presented her work on "Application of Metric-Based Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation to 3D High-Speed Compressible Flows" at the 2026 AIAA SciTech Forum. This work is in collaboration with researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Jan. 2025)
My collaborators, my M.S. Graduate (Luc Lipcius), and I published a technical note in the Journal of Aircraft, titled "What Price Hover?" (Dec.2025)
Congratulations, Justin Weinmeister, for successfully defending his dissertation proposal and becoming a Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering (Dec. 2025)
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Scalable, High-Order CFD Methods
Uncertainty Quantification and Scientific Machine Learning
Error Estimation
Mesh Adaptation, Optimization, and Generation
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)
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)
