Introduce yourself

Absolutely! Welcome @iitkvkh and @DanHumfeld to the community!

@iitkvkh, it’s great to have your expertise in composite materials, aero-structural assessment, and structural health monitoring—your background in adaptive experimental methods and data-driven approaches will be a valuable addition.

@DanHumfeld, your extensive experience in composites R&D at Boeing, especially in process-induced deformation, forming and thermal modeling, manufacturing systems, and machine learning, will certainly enrich our discussions.

We look forward to learning from your insights and collaborating on advancing composite materials and structures. If you have any questions or want to share your work, feel free to tag @old_CompositesAI or any other member. Welcome aboard!

@iitkvkh welcome, Prof. Khare! I am looking forward to your participation.

@iitkvkh Prof. Vivek Glad to see you here. I remember we shared the same stage for convocation at IITK in year 2021 from the Aerospace Department when I graduated from masters and you completed your PhD.

Hello everyone, My name is Venkata Punugu, and I’m an aerospace graduate from TU Munich, Germany. My research focuses multiscale modeling and experimental testing of carbon composites under dynamic loading conditions, specifically investigating their strain-rate dependent behavior. I’m eager to learn from all of you and contribute to the forum’s discussions.

Thanks to Prof. @Wenbin for the effort of making this forum and enabling discussions on the complexities of mechanics and materials.

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Hi everyone! This is Md Jalal Uddin Rumi. I am doing my PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio. My core research field is centered around computational solid mechanics. However, most of my work is related to computational modeling and simulation of bioinspired materials, particularly in studying their failure and fracture patterns using CZM and XFEM methods. I am grateful for the opportunity to join the team and look forward to collaborating with you all.

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Dear Rumi, it is glad to see you to join our community! We have plenty of researchers and scientists with material science in our club, it will be a pleasure for us to exchange ideas and explore more in this research field!

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Hello everyone. I am Arnob Nandy Mazumder, a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. My research focuses on multiscale modeling and predictive machine learning for fiber-reinforced composite microstructures. I look forward to learning from this community and contributing wherever I can.

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Nice to see you Nandy! We are looking forward to have further collaboration and discussion with you in the community!

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Hello All. This is Daning Huang from Penn State Aerospace Engineering. We mainly work on topics related to nonlinear dynamics - modeling, control, and optimization. Our lab webpage: https://apus-lab.github.io

Our current relevance to cdmHub is the structural optimization of composite rotor blades with manufacturability considerations - more details here: APUS at VFS 2025 | APUS Lab. Along the way, we always appreciate the technical support from Dr. Yu et al. on iVABS and beyond.

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@dnhuang Prof. Huang, welcome!

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Hi everyone! My name is Amir. I have a Ph.D. in Automotive Engineering. My research area is solid mechanics, functionally graded materials (FGMs), composite structures, and optimization. I possess a strong background in FEA, crashworthiness, and NVH. My technical proficiency includes CAE tools such as ABAQUS and COMSOL Multiphysics, alongside foundational programming skills in Python, MATLAB, and Fortran. I am adept at computational mechanics, simulation, and the design of lightweight composites and full vehicle systems.

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@amir.najibi Happy to see you here! It is a pleasure for you to enter this community and join our discussion!

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Hi!, I’m Bar, a graduate student in aeroelasticity.

Currently learning about the GEBT code, which we aim to couple with a UVLM aerodynamic solver.

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This is Amir Nasrollahi, I am a mechanical component design engineer at GE Aerospace. My current efforts at GE Aerospace is developing AI-based design optimization of structural components of turbofan engines. I am open to new ideas of using composites and AI-based design optimization for more collaboration or discussion.

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@amir.nasr welcome. I know Dr. Su Tian @su.tian.22 also work in the same direction. You two might be able to exchange ideas and collaborate.

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Thank you Prof. Wenbin! I’m delighted to find and become a part of your CompositesAI community and I look forward to the knowledge sharing and networking opportunities you offer. I’m the founder of a product design and development company, Vector Ring LLC, with the website: www.VectorRing.com. We have three product divisions: Personal Security, Industrial Applications, and Consumer Products. We are a SMASIS engineering focused development company specializing in smart material applications, especially for shape memory alloys. I retired from exploration geophysics several years ago and began focusing on smart materials and product design. One of the great features of smart materials is that they enable low cost, miniaturized sensors. One project I’m working on is Building Health Monitoring. I’m presenting a paper on this topic at this year’s annual SMASIS conference in St Louis, Sept 8-11. I hope to see some of you there. I’m happy to see that you’ve implemented a materials HUB. We’ve been considering this for a few years now but it’s been a low priority development. I’m grateful to see someone else initiate this effort, as I had intended to raise the issue at this year’s conference and look for development partners. I still hope to see a SMASIS focused resource HUB, but for now I will start a thread within this community. Reach out to us if you’re interested in one of our projects or see one of them as a path forward for one of your own, we’re always open to development partners. Enjoy the Singularity and best of luck.

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Dear Steve, have to see you here. I Hope you enjoy the community and join our discussion!

Hello everyone

I am Akash Kumar Burolia from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India. I work on Type-4 Hydrogen Composite Pressure vessels for different applications such as car, bus, train, bike and drone.

Thank You

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Dear Akash, Welcome to our community!

Hi everyone! I am Simanto, doing my MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh. Working at the intersection of composite Materials at multiscale and would love to work on numerical methods and AI to solve complex problems of composite materials.

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