Bio
Soumendu Bagchi is a Staff Scientist at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Bagchi's research is focussed around computational multiscale dynamics of solids, in particular, scale-bridging atomistic simulations to control material behavior at the extremes with a focus on Exascale and AI/ML-driven computational materials modeling approaches. Currently, Soumendu's research interests include
Data-driven and mechanistic upscaling of atomic scale dynamics to mesoscales in solids
Extreme-scale adaptive ensemble sampling workflows for materials discovery
Phase transitions, nucleation and kinetics of defects at the surfaces and interfaces of nanostructures
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, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
March 2024 to May 2024
Visiting Scholar Data-Driven Materials Informatics program, Institute of Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, University of Chicago.
August 2023
Fellow, Argonne Training Program in Extreme-Scale Computing, ATPESC 23
March 2023 to June 2023
Junior Resident Fellow New Mathematics for the Exascale: Applications to Materials Science program, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA
May 2022
Rising Stars in Aerospace 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
Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Fellowship, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)