Hi, I'm Hemanth. I am a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University working on data assimilation methods for high-speed flows. I am passionate about science, philosophy, music, and lately cats. I enjoy taking up focused challenges that allow me to dive deep into a problem and learn a wide range of new concepts along the way. Not long ago, in the midst of a war, I completed my PhD thesis at Technion; advisory of Prof. Steven Frankel and collaboration with several wonderful colleagues. On a daily basis, I go to lab, read stuff, write code, debug, and work together with colleagues. My research interests include: high-speed flows, numerical-methods, data assimilation, supersonic jet noise, and all things shock waves.

Prior to Technion, I was a master's student at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India) in Dr R. Sriram and group, where I performed wind tunnel experiments (Mach ≈ 3). In particular, I focused on '3-D Shock Boundary Layer Interactions'. My M.Tech thesis primarily focused on designing a suction-based control strategy to mitigate the unsteadiness in 3D-SBLIs. I also had a great opportunity of working with Dr. Nagabushana Rao in developing a high-order finite difference-based wall distance solver which drove me in to the path of CFD and numerical analysis down the line.