Prashant K. Jha
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Before taking this position, I worked at the University of Portsmouth as a Mechanical Engineering Lecturer (Asst. Prof.). I received a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in August 2016. After finishing my Ph.D., I joined the Department of Mathematics at Louisiana State University as a Postdoctoral Fellow and worked on numerical methods and analysis of the peridynamics theory of fracture. I then moved to the Oden Institute at UT Austin to gain experience in the computational mechanics of multiphysics and complex systems.
My research interests include solids and granular media mechanics, fracture mechanics, multiphysics and multiscale modeling, and applications of neural networks to engineering problems. I am serving the Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling as one of the associate editors, the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) as topic editor, and I am an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports.
- Fracture Mechanics
- Mechanics of Solids and Granular Media
- Multiphysics and Multiscale Modeling
- Scientific Machine Learning
- Uncertainty Quantification
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PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
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ME in Mechanical Engineering, 2012
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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BE in Mechanical Engineering, 2010
Govt. Engineering College, Raipur, India