Veera Sundararaghavan Assistant Professor ADDRESS: 3025 FXB PHONE: (734) 615-7242 FAX: (unsecured) (734) 763-0578 EMAIL: veeras@umich.edu PERSONAL WEBPAGE: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~veeras

Professor Sundararaghavan's interests are in the areas of computational mechanics, multi-scale materials modeling and optimization with emphasis on prediction and design of property distributions in polycrystalline materials and composites. Multi-scale models resolve interactions of material structure and mechanisms occurring over various length and time scales. His interest is on developing multi-scale computational models to address material design and optimization problems; examples include prediction of optimal processes to obtain desired strength, stiffness and fracture toughness in polycrystalline microstructures using finite element homogenization or molecular dynamics approaches and identification of optimal phase structures with desired magnetic/thermal properties using ab-initio simulations and statistical mechanics approaches. A variety of techniques including linear programming, gradient optimization and modern statistical learning methods are used to develop design solutions. He has made seminal contributions towards the development of mathematical model reduction techniques for accelerated materials-by-design including methods for graphical visualization of high dimensional material property-structure spaces and adaptive reduced order optimization.

Specializations & Research Interests
Mechanical behavior of materials, Computational mechanics, Computational materials science, Multi-scale modeling, Atomistic simulations, Optimization, High performance computing.

Education
Cornell University, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, 2007
Cornell University, Mechanical Engineering, MS, 2006
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Mechanical Engineering, MS, 2003
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Mechanical Engineering, BS, 2002

Society Memberships
A.I.A.A. (Amer. Inst. Aero & Astro)
S.I.A.M. (Soc. for Industrial & Applied Math.)
T.M.S. (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Soc.)

Honors and Awards
Prof V. Radhakrishnan Endowment award for securing highest rank in Masters program, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (2004)

Indian Institute of Technology-Madras Silver medal and award for highest academic performance for two consecutive academic years 2002-03 and 2001-02

NSF/UACM Fellowship awarded to attend USNCCM9 (San Francisco, 2007)

Teaching Interests
Aircraft and Spacecraft Structures (AE 315)

Positions Held at Michigan
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Fall 2007-present

Publications List and Downloads
Link to CV and paper/presentation downloads
Projects Page