Research

Three thrusts

Three thrusts, one question underneath them: what must a model keep in order to be trusted, and where is it worth spending computation?

Materials That Move

Mechanics and design of field-responsive materials

How electric and magnetic fields interact with microstructure, interfaces and geometry, and how those interactions determine actuation, adhesion and degradation in soft composites.

Two lineages: coarse graining of field–material coupling since 2016, soft-composite design and adhesion since 2025

Projects: 3
Codes: 1
Papers: 5
Funded by: SDBOR
Talks: 4

Projects Design of magnetic soft materials · Failure and fatigue in magnetic soft materials · Adhesion of field-responsive materials

Code MatTO

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How Things Break

Fracture and failure in heterogeneous materials

How matrix cracking, interface debonding, particle fracture and contact interactions compete to control strength, toughness, localization and residual load capacity.

Projects: 5
Codes: 2
Papers: 19
Funded by: NSF
Talks: 16

Projects Mechanics of granular media · Failure and fatigue in magnetic soft materials · Interface fracture in particle composites · Mathematical foundations of fracture · Scalable solvers for computational mechanics

Code PeriDEM · NLMech

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Error You Can Measure

Reliable scientific AI for mechanics, discovery and design

How residuals, error estimates and targeted high-fidelity solves can determine when a reduced or learned model is accurate enough for inference, optimization or design.

Projects: 1
Codes: 2
Papers: 11
Funded by: SDBOR
Talks: 6

Projects Neural operators with error estimation and control

Code Neural operators and residual correction · BayesForSEIRD

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