Members

Leifur Thor Leifsson
Principal investigator

Leifur is an Associate Professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University where he leads the CODE Lab.

Pavankumar Koratikere
PhD student

Pavan's research is focused on efficient global optimization with neural network models and sequential sampling.

Siddhesh Naidu
MSAA student

Siddhesh's research is focused on spacecraft multidisciplinary design optimization under uncertainty.

Abhijnan Dikshit
PhD student

Abhijnan's research is focused on adaptive nonintrusive reduced order modeling.

Yusuf Demiroglu
PhD student

Yusuf's research is focused on field prediction using graph neural networks.

Taeho Jeong
MSAA student

Taeho's research is focused on automated hyperparameter tuning for surrogate-based multidisciplinary design optimization.

Joseph Galkowski
MSAA student

Joseph's research is focused on multidisciplinary design optimization of high-speed vehicles.

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Alumni 

Triston Kosloske (MSAA May 2023)
Tarith Samson (MSAA May 2023)

Alumni at Iowa State University

Yen-Chen Liu (PhD, ongoing)
Nazareen Sikkandar Basha (PhD, ongoing)
Jethro Nagawkar (PhD December 2022, now at Envision Energy, Boulder, CO)
Vishal Raul (PhD May 2021, now at General Motors, Detroit, MI)
Marc Brittain (PhD May 2021, now at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA)
Xiaosong Du (PhD May 2019, now an assistant professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO)
Andrew Thelen (PhD December 2019, MS May 2016, now at NASA Langley's Aeroelasticity Branch)
Anshul Chandel (MS December 2018, now at 12 Bridges, Boston, MA)
Ryan Zher (MS May 2017)
Alexander Peters (MS May 2017, now at Boeing, St. Louis, MO)
Anand Amrit (PhD December 2018, MS May 2016, now at Rivian, Los Angeles, CA)
Jie Ren (MS May 2016, now at Honeywell Aerospace, Shanghai, China)