| Full name | Hemanth Chandravamsi |
| [my first name]grylls@gmail.com | |
| Languages | English, Telugu |
| Field | Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), data assimilation, machine learning, high-speed flows, numerical gas dynamics |
Academic appointments
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.
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.
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
Ph.D. (through the war 🕊️ and COVID 😶🌫️)
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
M.Tech
IIT Madras, India
B.E. (Hons.)
BITS Pilani, India
Teaching
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.
Gas dynamics lab
Teaching assistant · Dr. R. Sriram, IIT Madras
- Set up laboratory experiments: schlieren imaging, shock tube, and the supersonic wind tunnel.
Compressible fluid flows
Teaching assistant · Dr. R. Sriram, IIT Madras
Honors and awards
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
Numerical treatment of diffusion terms in compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Guest lecture · Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion
High-performance parallelization strategies for CFD using OpenACC+MPI
Guest lecture · Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion
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