Full nameHemanth Chandravamsi
Email[my first name]grylls@gmail.com
LanguagesEnglish, Telugu
FieldComputational fluid dynamics (CFD), data assimilation, machine learning, high-speed flows, numerical gas dynamics

Academic appointments

Jan 2026 - present

Postdoctoral fellow

Johns Hopkins University, USA
Host: Prof. Tamer Zaki, Flow Science & Engineering Lab

  • Data assimilation for high-speed flows; latent-space nonlinear dynamics.
  • Differentiable flow solvers, adjoint sensitivity, and the Ensemble Kalman Filter.
Oct 2024 - Jan 2026

Postdoctoral fellow

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Host: Prof. Steven Frankel, CFDLAB

  • Scramjet unstart, impinging supersonic jets and screech, and hypersonic flows.
  • Numerical methods and solvers: a nodal discontinuous-Galerkin compressible solver with shock capturing, NN-based optimal-order detection, and the co-developed QPINNACLE framework.
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021

Project associate

IIT Madras, India
Host: Dr. R. Sriram, Boundary Layer and Separation Dynamics Lab

  • Unsteady dynamics of three-dimensional shock-boundary-layer interaction and protuberance-induced separation.

Education

2021 - 2024

Ph.D. (through the war 🕊️ and COVID 😶‍🌫️)

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

2018 - 2020

M.Tech

IIT Madras, India

2013 - 2017

B.E. (Hons.)

BITS Pilani, India

Teaching

Winter 2024, 2025

Machine learning for scientists & engineers

Teaching assistant · Prof. Steven H. Frankel, Technion

  • Ran tutorials on deep-learning fundamentals; taught building ML models using PyTorch; advised final projects.
Spring 2019

Gas dynamics lab

Teaching assistant · Dr. R. Sriram, IIT Madras

  • Set up laboratory experiments: schlieren imaging, shock tube, and the supersonic wind tunnel.
Winter 2019-20

Compressible fluid flows

Teaching assistant · Dr. R. Sriram, IIT Madras

Honors and awards

2026

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Seal of Excellence

European Commission

  • For the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call, in recognition of a high-scoring proposal that passed all of the European Commission's evaluation thresholds.

Invited talks

Feb 2025

Numerical treatment of diffusion terms in compressible Navier-Stokes equations

Guest lecture · Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion

Dec 2022

High-performance parallelization strategies for CFD using OpenACC+MPI

Guest lecture · Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion

Aug 2022

GPU-accelerated CFD using OpenACC and application to supersonic jet noise prediction

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel

Academic service

Peer reviewed for:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Journal of Sound and Vibration
  • Aerospace Science and Technology
  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
  • AIP Advances
  • IEEE Access