I am an Assistant Professor in CSE at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, I was a Scientist in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). I am a computational scientist and applied mathematician by training, with a strong interest in physics, particularly fusion energy and plasma physics. I rely on open-source libraries such as MFEM, PETSc, p4est, Overture, and hypre to develop scalable, high-performance numerical solvers. I also work on scientific machine learning (SciML) to enhance traditional solvers.

I have several PhD student positions in Fall 2027. I primarily recruit through the College of Computing, including the CSE, ML, and CS programs. PhD students in the CSE and ML programs may have a home unit in a different school, so I also welcome students from math, physics, and engineering. Applicants must first be admitted by their respective home units. For students who are strongly interested in working with me, I encourage selecting the College of Computing as the home unit.

If you are interested in joining my group, please email me with your CV.

Research interests

• High-performance computing: high-order schemes (finite difference/volume/element), particle-in-cell, scalable iterative solvers, preconditioning, adaptive mesh refinement, GPU accelerations
• Scientific computing and simulations: multiscale and multiphysics problems, fusion modeling, computational plasma physics
• AI/ML and data science: structure-preserving ML, dynamical system learning, scale bridging, ML-based surrogates, denoising, Bayesian inference

Partnership

• I am part of a 5-year NNSA PSAAP Focused Investigatory Center: Center for High Order Plasma Turbulence Modeling for Z-Pinch (HighZ)
• I am part of a 5-year NNSA PSAAP Focused Investigatory Center: Center for Information Geometric Mechanics and Optimization (CIGMO)
• I am part of a 5-year DOE ASCR MMICC: Center for Hierarchical and Robust Modeling of Non-Equilibrium Transport (CHaRMNET).
• 2021–2025, I was the lead PI for a DOE ASCR SciML team involving LANL, ANL, IIT, JHU, and PSU.
• 2018–2023, I was part of the DOE FES Tokamak Disruption Simulation SciDAC center (TDS).

Awards

• Summer Early Career Scholar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2026
• DOE Early Career Award (ECRP), 2025