Bio
Before joining ORNL, Soumendu Bagchi was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Theoretical division (T-1) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) working on scale-bridging atomistic simulations to study material behavior at the extremes with a focus on Exascale and AI/ML-driven computational materials modeling approaches for solids. In particular, Soumendu's research interests include
Data-driven and mechanistic upscaling of atomic scale dynamics to mesoscales in solids
Accelerated and scalable workflows for materials discovery
Nucleation and kinetics of defects at the surfaces and interfaces of nanostructures
Developing autonomous platforms to enable simulation-guided digital twins for materials discovery in self-driving laboratories
Awards
December 2024
Special Performance Award (SPA) for significant achievement, 91°µÍø
March 2024 to May 2024
Visiting Scholar , University of Chicago.
August 2023
Fellow,
March 2023 to June 2023
Junior Resident Fellow
May 2022
selected by CU Boulder, MIT AeroAstro, Stanford and Penn State
April 2020
Kenneth Lee Herrick Memorial Award for outstanding academic and research performance, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 2019
Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
August 2018
, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)