News
2024 New
I had the incredible opportunity to be invited to the prestigious Schloss Dagstuhl seminar on Geometric Modeling: Challenges for Additive Manufacturing, Design, and Analysis, which has been taking place since 1991 on varying themes centered around geometric modeling.
It was an absolute pleasure talking on Robert Weber's podcast about my PhD work on using GenAI for ship design. You can listen to it at Link
I conducted a workshop for final-year MEng students at the University of Strathclyde's Marine Engineering department on the use of GenAI in ship design and operations.
I attended the GRAPES final event at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) in Linz, Austria.
I have taken up the role of R&D Lead at BAR Technologies, where I am currently co-supervising a team developing smart design and optimization tools for the maritime industry.
2023 News
I have been selected as the winner of the 2023 ASME CIE (Computers & Information in Engineering) Best Dissertation Award (Award to be presented at the IDETC 2023).
I won first place in the Images of Research competition, category: Technology Transformer [award night].
I have been selected for OMAE 2023 Outreach for Engineers Forum (I am 1 of 34 students among the 62 applicants and 1 of 10 who were selected to receive an additional travel reimbursement)
I successfully passed my PhD viva examination on January 20th, 2023 😁.
The examination committee, consisting of Dr Dante Kalise from Imperial College and Prof Erkan Oterkus from the University of Strathclyde, concluded after a 3.5-hour oral examination that the PhD should be awarded without amendments to the thesis.
The title of my PhD thesis is "IDEAS@MI: Intelligent data-driven systems for digital design in the maritime industry".
I got an endorsement from the Royal Society of Engineering as an "Exceptional Talent" in the UK in the field of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
If everything goes to plan, then this year I will be attending:
OMAE 2023 in Melbourne, Australia from 11-17 June 2023
Talk title: Physics-Informed Deep Generative Adversarial Network for Hull Form Optimisation in High-Dimensional Design Spaces.
Marine 2023 in Madrid, Spain from 27-29 June 2023
Talk title: Accelerating simulation-driven optimisation of marine propellers using shape-supervised dimension reduction".
PhD Summer School in Physics-Informed Neural Networks at KTH Stockholm.
Geometry Summit 2023 in Genova, Italy from 3-7th July 2023.
Talk title: Geometry Functionals as Physics-Informed Accelerators of Shape Optimisation
IDETC/CIE 2023 in Boston, MA from August 20 – 23, 2023
Talk title: How does agency impact human-AI collaborative design space exploration? A case study on ship design with deep generative models