Bio

I am a PhD student studying Computational Mechanics in the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. I joined the Computational Physics & Structural Simulation Lab (CPSSL) as an undergraduate research assistant in the fall of 2011 and after receiving my Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 2013 I continued my studies at the CPSSL as a PhD student. As an undergraduate research assistant, I studied topics pertaining to progressive collapse of steel building frames and the use of sandwich panel systems for mitigating blast damage. As a graduate research assistant, I have worked on the use of metaheuristic optimization algorithms for design of large steel frame systems and isogeometric formulations of three-dimensional curved beam elements. My dissertation work is focused on the development of computational techniques for the analysis and design of materials systems involving nonlinear, transient and multiphysics phenomena at different scales. This work involves developing novel computational homogenization and topology optimization approaches which can capture the complex physical phenomena in these systems with high fidelity.