J. N. Reddy

Ph.D. Students

Alekhya Banki is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She holds a Master’s in Civil Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She received her Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering and Master’s in Structural Engineering (dual degree) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her research primarily focuses on modeling fracture and damage in architected materials.

Vardhil Mehta is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering with Minor in Aerospace Engineering and Master’s in Computer Aided Design and Automation Engineering (Dual Degree) from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His research primarily focuses on developing homogenized models for architected materials and designing them.

Sachin Velayudhan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his Master’s degree in Machine Design from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering Trivandrum, India. His research focuses on modeling fracture of composite plates and shells based on Graph-based Finite Element Analysis (GraFEA).

Suhas A Kowshik is a Ph.D. student in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and he recieved his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute Of Engineering (NIE), Mysore. His research is currently on beams, shells contact.

Mehmet Alp Dogmaz is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Erciyes University, Turkiye. His research focuses on topology optimization of functionally graded plates and shells.

Atharva Kulkarni is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and he completed his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune. His research primarily focuses on modelling higher-order elements for high-rate dynamic analysis of beams, plates and shells.

Tanmaye Heblekar is a Ph.D. student at the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M, and is currently working on applying the Dual Mesh Control Domain Method (DMCDM) to solve various engineering problems. He completed his B.Tech. in mechanical engineering in 2019 at the Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, and was the recipient of the Department Gold Medal and TMA Pai honor for Academic Excellence. After his undergraduate studies, Tanmaye worked as a structural engineer in the Landing Systems team at Collins Aerospace, Raytheon, from 2019 to 2022, following a brief six-month internship at Bell Helicopter, Textron India, with the Flight Simulation and Testing (FTS) team.

Sreenu Hari is a Ph.D. student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College Thrissur and worked as a product development engineer at the Department of Research and Development, MRF Tyres from 2019 to 2022. Currently, his research focuses on utilizing physics-based neural networks to predict airframe structure failures.

Will Furr is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University researching higher-order elements for high-rate dynamic analyses. He received his Master’s degree and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University, and he is a research engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).

Moaz M. Rabie is a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He Recieved a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M Univerity at Qatar in 2022. Moaz recieved the Third-place Award in the Annual Undergarduate Poster Competition, organised by AIChE in Boston (2021), for his work on Developing CO₂ Capture process by 3D-printing New Static Mixers. He focuses in his PhD thesis on developing the printability of plant-based natural fiber composites.

Muhammad Nafees is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University at Qatar. His research focuses on detecting damage in additive manufacturing processes using smart materials in polymeric structures.

Rahaf Homssi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University at Qatar. Her research is currently on smart materials in polymeric structures.

Chris Yassopoulos is a MS student in the Department of Mechancial Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and also has experience in the aerospace industry as an airframe structural analysist. His academic research involves the analysis of beams, plates, and other structural elements using the Theory of Functional Connections (TFC).

Andrew Fisseler is a Masters student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University. His research is currently in physics-based neural networks to predict off-road tire-terrain interaction.