I am a member of the
Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics (SESM) faculty at
UC Davis, and also a
member of the Graduate Group
in Applied
Mathematics and
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering.
My research interests lie in the areas of computational solid
mechanics and applied mathematics, with
particular emphasis on the understanding of failure in structural
and biological materials. I have been involved in the
development of meshfree (natural neighbor) and
partition of unity finite element
methods. Other areas
of interest and current research emphasis
include computational geometry, level set methods,
information theory, Bayesian theory of probability,
maximum entropy methods, constrained
optimization and variational analysis,
dynamic programming, adaptive mesh refinement, quantum mechanics,
and scientific computing.
Prior to UCD, I was a research associate at
Princeton;
Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
from Northwestern
[web],
M.S. from OGI,
and B.Tech. from IIT Bombay
(H6).
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