Dr. Curt A. Bronkhorst is project PI, Professor, and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Engineering Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He also has appointments in the Mechanical Engineering Department and Materials Science & Engineering Department. He is Guest Scientist within the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is Honorary Commander for the Wisconsin Air National Guard 115th Fighter Wing. He is fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is a member of the ASME Materials Division Executive Committee. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Plasticity. He is also president of Northland Partners, LLC.
Email: cbronkhorst@wisc.edu
Group website: https://uwtcmmg.wiscweb.wisc.edu/
Dr. Sid Pathak is project co-PI and assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Iowa State University, and he is leading the efforts on micro-mechanical testing in this project. Prior to starting his faculty career, he was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow 2012-2015 at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and a Keck Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech (2010-2012). He has received numerous scientific awards based on his work including the 2017 TMS Young Leaders Professional Development Award, one of the 2019 Top UNR Researchers for his university, as well as the 2019 DARPA Young Faculty Award and the 2020 NSF EPSCoR Research Fellowship.
Email: pathak@iastate.edu
Group Website: https://www.mse.iastate.edu/sidpathak/
Dr. Nan Chen is project co-PI and Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS) and the Center of Atmosphere and Ocean Science (CAOS), New York University (NYU) in May 2016. After that, he worked as a postdoc research associate at CIMS, NYU from June 2016 to May 2018. He also has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in computational math. His research interests lie in contemporary applied mathematics, including modeling complex systems, stochastic methods, numerical algorithms, uncertainty quantification, data assimilation, extreme events, machine learning, and general data science.
Email: chennan@math.wisc.edu
Group Website: Nan Chen’s homepage (wisc.edu)
Dr. Marko Knezevic is project co-PI from the University of New Hampshire. He is a professor of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, and Integrated Applied Mathematics at University of New Hampshire. His role in the project is developing constitutive material models for predicting plasticity and fracture with an emphasis on high-performance computational applications and simulations.
Email: Marko.Knezevic@unh.edu
Group Website: https://ceps.unh.edu/person/marko-knezevic
Sam Dunham is an Engineering Mechanics Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering, with a specialization in Engineering Mechanics, both from Tennessee Technological University of Cookeville, TN. He is currently working on large deformation ductile damage mechanics and engineered grain boundaries during processing to mitigate damage site formation.
Email: sddunham@wisc.edu
Yinling Zhang received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Shanghai Jiaotong University and master’s degree in mathematics at UW Madison. She is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in the math department and working on analyzing the ductile damage mechanism based on information theory.
Email: zhang2447@wisc.edu
Manish Kumar is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. He finished his undergraduate study (Bachelor of Technology, B.Tech) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India. He is currently working on understanding the anisotropy in the plastic response of Tantalum single crystals and polycrystal Tantalum using spherical nanoindentation stress-strain and in-Situ SEM micropillar compression techniques.
Email: manishk@iastate.edu
Niraj Pramod Atale is a first year Material Science Engineering Ph.D. student at the Iowa State University with B.S. and M.S. (Dual Degree) in Physics, with final year project in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India. He is currently involved with the multilevel physical experiments to understand the effect of different factors such as alloying, grain structure, crystallographic texture, temperature and strain rate on the plastic deformation and damage evolution.
Email: npatale@iastate.edu
Olajesu Olanrewaju is a Materials Science and Engineering PhD Student at Iowa State University, Ames with a B.Eng in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. His research is focused on the development and utilization of Tantalum alloys for novel aerospace applications.
Email: oolajesu@iastate.edu
Sajjad Izadpanah is a Ph.D. student studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He obtained his Master’s degree in the same field at Shahrood University of Technology, Iran. Currently, his research is focused on developing advanced constitutive material models using the Crystal Plasticity Finite Element (CPFE) method to predict plasticity and fracture in materials.
Email: sajjad.izadpanahnajmabad@unh.edu
Robert Argus is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to matriculating at UW-Madison, he was a student at the University of Connecticut, where he obtained an M.S. in pure mathematics and a graduate certificate in logic. He also holds B.S. degrees in mathematics and physics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Currently, he is utilizing statistical tools to develop a coarse-grained model of the time evolution of state variables relevant to the prediction of damage nucleation in metallic materials under dynamic loading conditions.
Email: rargus@wisc.edu