Leadership
Soumik Sarkar
Director
soumiks@iastate.edu
Soumik Sarkar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State Univerity. His research focuses on development of data analytics and machine learning algorithms for autonomous perception and decision-making in complex cyber-physical systems with a large variety of application areas including building energy systems, plant science and agriculture, design and manufacturing, and intelligent transportation systems. The nature of his research is inherently multi-disciplinary, involving machine learning, information theory, theory of computation, dynamical systems, topology and statistical mechanics.
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
Associate Director (Operations & Strategy)
baskarg@iastate.edu
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. His research interests are in the areas of computational mechanics, multi-physics simulators, control algorithms, data-driven methods to efficiently model these systems.
Adarsh Krishnamurthy
Associate Director (Education & Workforce Development)
adarsh@iastate.edu
Adarsh Krishnamurthy is an associate professor in the mechanical engineering department at Iowa State University. His research interests include GPU and parallel algorithms, cyber-enabled manufacturing, biomechanics, patient-specific heart modeling, solid mechanics, computational geometry, and ultrasonic non-destructive testing.
Anuj Sharma
Associate Director (FAST-TrAC Director)
anujs@iastate.edu