Principal Investigator

Dr. Sid Kumar

Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Delft University of Technology

Office: 34 H-4-200, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft
Email: Sid.Kumar@tudelft.nl
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PhD & Postdoc researchers

Prakash Thakolkaran
PhD Student

Research Topics: machine learning, metamaterial design, design optimization

M.Sc., ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2021 (Mechanical Engineering)
B.
Sc., ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2018 (Mechanical Engineering)

Email: P.Thakolkaran@tudelft.nl
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Yaqi Guo
Visiting PhD Student

Research Topics: machine learning, data-driven design and modeling of (meta-)materials, buckling of film/substrate system

Ph.D., Tongji University, China (Mechanics)
B.Sc., Central South University, China, 2017 (Engineering Mechanics)

Email: Y.Guo-4@tudelft.nl

Graduate students

Julia Czarnecka
Master student

Research Topics: tunable bio-mimetic bone scaffolds by spinodal decomposition

B.Sc., University of Manchester, 2020 (Materials Science and Engineering)

Email: J.M.Czarnecka@student.tudelft.nl

Lucy Seager
Master student

Research Topics: data-driven constitutive modeling of biological tissues

B.Sc., University of Manchester, 2019 (Physics)

Email: L.A.Seager@student.tudelft.nl

Efthymios Koutsounanos
Master student

Research Topics: ceramic matrix composite materials, mechanical behavior, multi-scale analysis

B.Sc., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2019 (Physics)

Email: E.Koutsounanos@student.tudelft.nl

Miquel Ayllón García
Master student

Research Topics: machine learning, physical metallurgy and modelling

B.Sc., IQS Barcelona - University Ramón Llull, 2021 (Chemical Engineering)

Email: M.Ayllongarcia@student.tudelft.nl

Alumni

  • Saurav Sharma, Postdoc Scientist (now Humboldt fellow at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

  • Akshay Joshi, Postdoc Scientist (now at University of Cambridge)

  • Sikko van 't Sant, MSc thesis (Cum Laude) (now Data Scientist at Cefetra)

  • Yiwen Zheng, Research Assistant (now PhD Student at University of Washington)


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