Murali Damodaran

Background

Academic & Professional Qualifications

• PhD (1987) Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, USA
• MS (1983) Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, USA
• B.Tech(1981) Aeronautical Engineering, (1st Division with Distinction), IIT Kanpur, India
• Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) (Inducted in 2002)
• PEng (Aeronautical), Professional Engineers' Board, Singapore (Inducted in 1997)

Career History

• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India (2023- )
• Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2023- )
• Senior Research Scientist, Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2018-2023)
• Senior Lecturer-Educator Track Faculty, Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2016-2018)
• Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, India (2010-2015)
• Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1989-2010)
• Concurrently: Singapore-MIT Alliance Faculty Fellow in Computational Engineering Graduate Program (1999-2010); Adjunct Associate Professor A-Star Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore (2006-2010)
• Research Associate, Applied Aerodynamics, NASA Ames Research Centre, USA (1986-1988)

Research Areas and Interests

• Aerospace Engineering, Aerodynamics, Flight Dynamics and Control, Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Scientific Computing; Design Optimization; Scientific Machine Learning and Digital Twins
• Current focus: Computational Aero-Mechanics and Aeroelasticity; Physics Informed Machine Learning; Open Source Computational Engineering Software Applications

Professional Activities

• Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics (since 2009)
• Managing Editor of International Journal of Information Technology - Singapore Computer Society (since 1996)