Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Education
Biography
Krishna Garikipati obtained his PhD at Stanford University in 1996, and after a few years of post-doctoral work, he joined the University of Michigan in 2000, rising to Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics. Between 2016 and 2022, he served as the Director of the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE). In January 2024 he will start as a Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern California. His research is in computational science, with applications drawn from biophysics, materials physics, mechanics and mathematical biology. Of recent interest are data-driven approaches to computational science. He has been awarded the DOE Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and a Humboldt Research Fellowship. He is a fellow of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and the International Association for Computational Mechanics, a Life Member of Clare Hall at University of Cambridge, and a visiting scholar in Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation.
Research Summary
My research is in computational science and scientific artificial intelligence, including machine learning and data-driven modelling. I have applied these approaches to physics discovery by model inference, scale bridging, partial differential equation solvers, representation of complexity and constructing reduced-order models of high-dimensional systems. My research is motivated by and applied to phenomena in bioengineering, biophysics, mathematical biology and materials physics. Of specific interest to me are patterning and morphogenesis in developmental biology, cellular biophysics, soft matter and mechano-chemical phase transformations in materials. More fundamentally, the. foundations of my research lie in applied mathematics, numerical methods and scientific computing.
