Current Team Members
Dr. Shank Kulkarni
Research Associate III
Previous Degrees
- BS, Civil Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India, 2010
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India, 2013
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2019
Previous Employment
- Postdoc Research Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, WA, USA, 2019-2021
- Computational Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, WA, USA, 2021-2022
John Fritz
Degree Program: Doctoral (Anticipated December 2024)
Research Area(s): Finite Element Methods, Interface Mechanics, Mathematical Homogenization, Variational Methods
Previous Degrees
- MS in Engineering, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas, 2020
- MS, Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2024
Previous Employment(s):
- PhD Intern – Material Dynamics, Pacific Northwest National Lab, WA, USA, Summer 2022
Ibrahim Adediran
Degree Program: Doctoral (Anticipated May 2025)
Research Area(s): Interface mechanics, Composite damage analysis
Previous Degrees
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria, 2014
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey, 2020
- MS, Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2023
Debangshu Paul
Degree Program: Doctoral (Anticipated December 2025)
Previous Degrees
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2013
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2017
Agnila Ghosh Surovi
Degree Program: Master (Anticipated May 2025) and Doctoral (Anticipated December 2027)
Previous Degrees
- BS, Materials Science and Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh, 2022
Munireach Nannory
Degree Program: Masters (Anticipated May 2025) and Doctoral (Anticipated May 2028)
Previous Degrees
- Bachelor of Education, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2021
- BS, Civil Engineering, Pannasastra University of Cambodia (PUC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2022
Undergraduate Researchers
None at this time.