About me

Abhishek Arora is a Senior R&D Engineer at Ansys, Inc. (Part of Synopsys, Inc.), where he works in the Mechanical APDL team at Ansys, focusing on material modeling, nonlinear finite elements, and software development.  

Before that, he was a postdoctoral research scholar in the Multiscale Computational Mechanics Laboratory in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, advised by Prof. Caglar Oskay. His research focused on two key areas: (1) developing finite element algorithms for hybrid quantum/classical computing, and (2) creating multiscale algorithms to model the high-rate response of architected materials.

Dr. Arora holds a Ph.D. and MS in Computational Mechanics from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA. He was advised by Prof. Amit Acharya, and his doctoral research centered on the interactions of nonlinear deformations and defects across three application areas: (1) actuation of soft membranes, (2) rupture dynamics, and (3) mesoscale plasticity.

Before his Ph.D., Dr. Arora worked as a mechanical developer in the Gas Turbine Department (R&D) at Siemens Ltd., Gurgaon, India. He also earned an M.Tech. in Engineering Mechanics from the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India, under the supervision of Prof. Ajeet Kumar, and a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Guwahati, India.