Team

Group photo of Computational Physics Group members L to R: Tianyi, Lian, Jesus, Henry, Spencer, Melody, Ben, Haocheng, Max, Jack, Dimitri, Brian.
Not Pictured: Anand, Ansh
We are always looking for new students to join the team!

Spencer Bryngelson

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Associate Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
Core Faculty, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

Members

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Tianyi Chu

Postdoc fellow

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Jesus Arias

PhD student

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Daniel Vickers

PhD student

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Benjamin Wilfong

PhD student

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Melody Lee

UG student

Ph.D graduates

  • Anand Radhakrishnan. Ph.D. CSE (2026). (then NVIDIA)
    Dissertation: Simulating Multi-phase compressible flows: Introducing a stochastic sub-grid model for dispersed phase and presenting a GPU optimized alternative to traditional shock capturing via information geometric regularization

  • Haocheng Yu. Ph.D. CSE (2026), co-advised by K. Ahuja.
    Dissertation: Impact of Leakage Due to Ill-Fitting Earplugs on the Dissipation of High-Amplitude Sound into Vorticity

  • Zhixin (Jack) Song. Ph.D. Physics (2026). (then Quantum Research Scientist, QuEra)
    Dissertation: Solving Differential Equations on Quantum Computers

  • Fatima Ezahra Chrit. Ph.D. ME (2023), co-advised by A. Alexeev. (then IronCAD)
    Dissertation: Modeling and simulation of cells and particles in microfluidic channels

Undergraduate alumni

  • Tanush Prathi. 2025-26 (VSIP Program)

  • Brian Ok. 2024-25 (VSIP Program)

  • Lian Xiang. 2024-25 (then PhD student, RPI)

  • Henry Le Berre. 2021-25 (then Propulsion Software Eng. at SpaceX)

  • Ansh Gupta. 2022-24 (then YCombinator Startup)

  • Sriharsha Kocherla. 2022-24 (then MSCS, then Quant. at Old Mission)

  • Subrahmanyam Mullangi. 2023-24 (then Quant., Xantium Group)

  • Rasmit Devkota. 2023 (then GTRI)

  • Arjun Bhamra. 2022-23 (then TINKER group w/ Tom Conte, then PhD student at UC Berkeley EECS)

  • Yash Kothari. 2022-23 (then founder, Inika AI)

  • Ajay Bati. 2021-23 (then MSCS GT, then mundane)

  • Qi Zeng. 2021-23 (then M.S. UC Berkeley EECS, then Software Eng. at Google Cloud AI)