Principal Investigator
Dr. Sid Kumar
Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Delft University of Technology
Postdoc, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2019-21
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, USA, 2019 (Aeronautics)
M.S., École Polytechnique, France, 2017 (Multiscale modeling)
M.S., California Institute of Technology, USA, 2016 (Aeronautics)
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2014 (Mechanical Engineering)
Office: 34 H-4-200, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft
PhD & Postdoc researchers
Prakash Thakolkaran
PhD Student
Research Topics: machine learning, metamaterial design, design optimization, molecule design
M.Sc., ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2021 (Mechanical Engineering)
B.Sc., ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2018 (Mechanical Engineering)
Tarakram Ramgopal
PhD Student
Research Topics: metallic microstructures, machine learning, cellular automata
M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, India, 2022 (Computational Engineering)
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, India, 2021 (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering)
Email: T.Ramgopal@tudelft.nl
Bharadwaj Tallapragada
PhD Student
Research Topics: extreme mechanics, computational sciences
M.Sc., Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2023 (Aerospace Engineering)
B.Tech., Vellore Institute of Technology, India, 2020 (Mechanical Engineering)
Email: B.Tallapragada@tudelft.nl
Riccardo Brambilla
PhD Student
Research Topics: fracture mechanics, computational sciences
M.Sc., Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2024 (Aerospace Engineering)
B.Sc., University of Parma, Italy, 2021 (Mechanical Engineering)
Email: R.Brambilla@tudelft.nl
Ishank Jain
PhD Student
Research Topics: phase field modeling, polymers, composites
M.S., Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, India, 2023 (Aerospace Engineering)
B.Tech., Vellore Institute of Technology, India, 2018 (Mechanical Engineering)
Email: I.Jain@tudelft.nl
Anuj Joshi
PhD Student
Research Topics: vibration damping, shape memory materials, metamaterials, mechanochemistry
M.Sc., Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2024 (Mechanical Engineering)
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee, India, 2021 (Mechanical Engineering)
Email: A.K.Joshi@tudelft.nl
Yaqi Guo
Postdoctoral scientist
Research Topics: machine learning, metamaterials, moelcule design
Ph.D., Tongji University, China, 2023 (Mechanics)
B.Sc., Central South University, China, 2017 (Engineering Mechanics)
Email: Y.Guo-4@tudelft.nl
Ben Alheit
Postdoctoral scientist
Research Topics: multiscale modeling, biomechanics, constitutive modeling, machine learning
Ph.D., University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2022 (Computational Mechanics)
B.Sc. University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2018 (Mechanical Engineering)
Email: B.H.Alheit@tudelft.nl
Gowtham N.H.
Postdoctoral scientist
Research Topics: generative modeling, microstructure modeling, additive manufacturing
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore, India, 2024 (Materials Science)
M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur, India, 2017 (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering)
B.Tech., National Institute of Technology - Trichy, India, 2012 (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering)
Email: G.NimmalHaribabu@tudelft.nl
Postdoctoral scientist
[Starting mid-2025]
Research Topics: photoacoustics, metamaterials
Graduate students
Fabian Braun
Master student
Research Topics: physical neural networks, optics, photonics
B. Mech.. Eng., University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany, (Mechanical Engineering)
Email: F.Braun-1@student.tudelft.nl
Divakar Vetriveeran
Master student
Research Topics: microstructures, machine learning
B.Tech., Kongu Engineering College, India (Mechanical Engineering)
Shivam Saini
Master student
Research Topics: machine learning, constitutive modeling
B.E., Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India (Mechanical Engineering)
Email: S.Saini-1@student.tudelft.nl
Paweł Wiatrzyk
Master student
Research Topics: molecule design, polymers, machine learning
B. Eng., Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland, (Aerospace Engineering)
Taejun (TJ) Kong
Master student
Research Topics: phase separation, machine learning
B.Sc., Ajou University, Republic of Korea (Mechanical Engineering)
Email: T.Kong-1@student.tudelft.nl
Alumni
Researchers:
Jianing Zhu, Postdoc Scientist
Yaqi Guo, Visiting PhD Student
Saurav Sharma, Postdoc Scientist
Akshay Joshi, Postdoc Scientist
Students:
Amanullah Mahmood, MSc thesis (Cum Laude)
Anuj Joshi, MSc thesis (Cum Laude)
Miquel Ayllón García, MSc thesis
Julia Czarnecka, MSc thesis
Lucy Seager, MSc thesis
Efthymios Koutsounanos, MSc thesis
Sikko van 't Sant, MSc thesis (Cum Laude)
Yiwen Zheng, Research Assistant
TU Delft, Mekelweg 2, Delft 2628 CD, Netherlands
