Soumendu Bagchi
Welcome! I am currently an AI/ML accelerated materials modeling research associate at Nanomaterials Theory Institute in Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Previously I worked at the Theoretical Division of Physics and Chemistry of Materials (T-1) in Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Having a unique background in computational sciences, engineering mechanics and materials physics, I develop and apply novel scientific methods and workflows to discover and control dynamic properties of materials by bridging multiple length and time scales while coupling mutiple physical and computational paradigms. To accelerate such discoveries I extensively use and take inspirations from cutting-edge extreme-scale (HPC) computing and machine learning (ML) algorithms. Find more on my research here.
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2016-2020
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering
Computational Sciences and Engineering Fellow
Graduate Certificate in Aerospace Materials
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 2013-2015
Masters in Aerospace Engineering
DAAD-Masters Sandwich Fellow 2014-2015
University of Stuttgart
Jadavpur University 2009-2013
Bachelors in Civil Engineering
Research Interests
Data-driven/mechanistic upscaling of atomic scale dynamics to mesoscales
Accelerated and scalable workflows for materials simulations
Emerging phenomena due to defects at the surfaces and interfaces of nanostructures
Developing autonomous platforms to enable simulation-guided digital twins for materials discovery in self-driving laboratories.
Recent News
March 2024
Awarded visiting fellowship and invited as a speaker to be a part of the upcoming Data-Driven Materials Informatics program, Institute of Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, University of Chicago.
August 2023
Selected to participate in the Argonne Training Program in Extreme-Scale Computing, ATPESC 23
April 2022
Co-organized at MRS Spring meeting 2023, San Fransisco, CA., symposium on Data-Driven Multiscale Studies of Materials—Computations and Experiments
March 2023 to June 2023
Junior Resident Fellow for program on New Mathematics for the Exascale: Applications to Materials Science program, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA
May 2022
Chosen as Rising Stars in Aerospace selected by CU Boulder, MIT AeroAstro, Stanford and Penn State
April 2020
Received Kenneth Lee Herrick Memorial Award for outstanding academic and research performance from Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 2019
Received Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
August 2018
Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Fellowship from National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
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