Geelen Research Group

Rudy Geelen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. Before joining Texas A&M, he was a Peter O'Donnell Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow working with Karen Willcox at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University in 2020 and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. His research interests lie in the field of computational mechanics, model order reduction and scientific machine learning.

Recent news

• Welcome to new PhD student Toby Guo who joined us from the University of Alabama! (08/2026)

• Looking forward to participate in the NSF-Sponsored Workshop on Mechanics for Physical AI in Houston. The workshop brings together academia and industry to discuss emerging research opportunities in AI-enabled engineering. (08/2026)

• Congratulations to REU students Maxwell McCullough and Cole Lawler for representing Aero at the 2026 COE S-REU Poster Session! (07/2026)

• Happy to have participated in the 2026 Invention Convention Texas. Thank you to the Spark! PK-12 team for the invitation! (04/2026)

• On April 17th, we will be hosting the Texas Digital Twin Symposium which seeks to bring together researchers, students, and industry partners from across Texas to engage with digital twin research. (04/2026)

• I participated as a judge at the Texas Science & Engineering Fair 2026 (TXSEF) organized in College Station. It was wonderful to witness the ingenuity of the real-world solutions these young minds are creating! (03/2026)

• A warm welcome to our new MS student Seunghee Cheon, who is joining us from Dongguk University in South Korea. (01/2026)

• I participated as a counceler in the Summer Computing Academy at Texas A&M University. The initiative organized by Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing (HPRC) seeks to enable aspiring computer scientists, developers, and engineers (grades 8 through 12) in their pursuit of computing fields. Thank you to Sandra Nite, Dhruva Chakravorty and the rest of the HPRC team for organizing and including me as well as to the students for their participation. (06/2025)

• Gave a seminar at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Seoul National University in South-Korea titled Learning from data using nonlinear manifolds: a model reduction perspective. Thank you to Youngjoon Hong and the Machine Learning and Scientific Computing (MLSC) Lab for hosting! (05/2025)