Kumar Saurabh

 

I am a Graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State university co-advised by Dr. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian and Dr. Adarsh Krishnamurthy . Currently, I am working on building an adaptive 4D Finite Element library to solve transient Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in coupled space - time. Also, I am developing a virtual instrument for Resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSoXS) measurement using Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) which will be used to solve the inverse problem of microstructure generation. Prior to joining Iowa State, I worked as a Member Technical Staff at SankhyaSutra Labs, Bangalore. I received my Masters from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Bachelors from Indian Institute of technology, Banaras Hindu University.

 

Current Position

Graduate Research Assistant,
Mechanical Engineering (August 2018 – present)
Iowa State University

Awards and Honors

  • DAAD Scholarship, Germany, September 2015 - March 2016.
  • Prof. Helmut Neunzert Endowment Prize, IIT Madras 2016.
  • Institute Merit Prize, IIT Madras. 2015.
  • MHRD Fellowship, India. July 2014 - August 2015

Education

Graduate Research Assistant., Iowa State University, Ames. (Current)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Major : Mechanical Engineering
Co- Major : Computer and Electrical Engineering (expected)
Advisor : Dr. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
Co-advisor : Dr. Adarsh Krishnamurthy

Masters of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. August 2016
Department of Mathematics
M.Tech in Industrial Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Ranked first in the department
Major : Mathematics
Advisor : Prof. Dr. S. Sundar
Co-Advisor : Prof. Dr. Martin Frank
Thesis : Analysis and Implementation of Asynchronous Finite Difference for Partial Difference Equations (PDEs).

Bachelors of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. August 2014
Department of Chemical Engineering
B.Tech in Chemical Engineering
Major : Chemical Engineering

Work Experience

  • Member Technical Staff, SankhyaSutra Labs, Bengaluru (June 2016 - June 2017)

Research Interests

  • Computational Science
  • High Performance Scientific Computing
  • Scientific Machine Learning
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

Publication [ Google Scholar ]

Peer - reviewed
  • [SC'19] Ishii, M., Fernando, M., Saurabh, K., Khara, B., Ganapathysubramanian, B., & Sundar, H. (2019, November). Solving PDEs in space-time: 4D tree-based adaptivity, mesh-free and matrix-free approaches. In Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (p. 61). ACM. [ Link ] [Finalist for the SC20 Student Cluster Competition Reproducibility Challenge]
  • [SC'19] Saurabh, K., Khara, B.,Fernando, M., Ishii, M., Sundar, H. & Ganapathysubramanian, B. Poster: Solving phase-field equations in space - time: Adaptive space - time meshes and stabilized variational formulations. [ Link ]
  • Goel, P., Saurabh, K., Patil-Shinde, V., & Tambe, S. S. (2017). Prediction of API values of crude oils by use of saturates/aromatics/resins/asphaltenes analysis: computational-intelligence-based models. SPE Journal, 22(03), 817-853. [ Link ]
Non-peer reviewed
  • [USNCCM '19] Khara, B., Saurabh, K., Fernando, M., Dyja R., Rossmanith J., Sundar, H. & Ganapathysubramanian, B. Solving Parabolic Evolution Equations in Large Space-time Blocks: Space-time Stabilization, APosteriori Space-time Estimates, and Adaptive Space-time Refinement.
  • Saurabh, K., & Deshmukh S. Efficient algorithm for calculation of pore size distribution in crosslinked polymers. CHEGSA Symposium, Virginia Tech.

Teaching Interests

  • Numerical Methods
  • Computer Programming
  • Parallel and High Performance Computing

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant, Separation Process, Virginia Tech. Fall, 2017
  • Teaching Assistant, Simulation Lab, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. August 2015.