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Ashwin Renganathan

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Center for Acoustics and Vibration
  • Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

Research Areas:

Higher Performance Computing; Vehicle Systems Engineering

Interest Areas:

Multidisciplinary design optimization, uncertainty quantification, surrogate modeling

 
 

 

Education

  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, Anna University, 2008
  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010
  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Annie S Booth, Ashwin Renganathan and Robert B Gramacy, 2025, "Contour Location for Reliability in Airfoil Simulation Experiments using Deep Gaussian Processes", Annals of Applied Statistics, 19, (1)
  • Ashwin Renganathan, Vishwas Rao and Ionel M. Navon, 2023, "CAMERA: A method for cost-aware, adaptive, multifidelity, efficient reliability analysis", Journal of Computational Physics, 472, pp. 111698
  • Jai Ahuja, Ashwin Renganathan and Dimitri N. Mavris, 2022, "Sensitivity Analysis of the Over-Wing Nacelle Design Space", Journal of Aircraft, 59, (6), pp. 1--15
  • G. Valerio Iungo, Romit Maulik, Ashwin Renganathan and Stefano Letizia, 2022, "Machine-learning identification of the variability of mean velocity and turbulence intensity for wakes generated by onshore wind turbines: Cluster analysis of wind LiDAR measurements", Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 14, (2)
  • Ashwin Renganathan, Romit Maulik, Stefano Letizia and Giacomo Valerio Iungo, 2022, "Data-driven wind turbine wake modeling via probabilistic machine learning", Neural Computing and Applications, 34, pp. 6171-6186
  • Dushhyanth Rajaram, Tejas G Puranik, Ashwin Renganathan, WoongJe Sung, Olivia Pinon Fischer, Dimitri N Mavris and Arun Ramamurthy, 2022, "Empirical assessment of deep Gaussian process surrogate models for engineering problems", Journal of Aircraft, 58, (1), pp. 182--196
  • Ashwin Renganathan, Romit Maulik and Jai Ahuja, 2021, "Enhanced data efficiency using deep neural networks and Gaussian processes for aerodynamic design optimization", Aerospace Science and Technology, 111
  • Ashwin Renganathan, Kohei Harada and Dimitri N. Mavris, 2020, "Aerodynamic data fusion toward the digital twin paradigm", AIAA Journal, 58, (9), pp. 3902-3918
  • Ashwin Renganathan, Romit Maulik and Vishwas Rao, 2020, "Machine learning for nonintrusive model order reduction of the parametric inviscid transonic flow past an airfoil", Physics of Fluids, 32, pp. 047110
  • Ashwin Renganathan, 2020, "Koopman-based approach to nonintrusive reduced order modeling: Application to aerodynamic shape optimization and uncertainty propagation", AIAA Journal, 58, (5), pp. 2221--2235
  • Ashwin Renganathan, Yingjie Liu and Dimitri N Mavris, 2018, "Koopman-based approach to nonintrusive projection-based reduced-order modeling with black-box high-fidelity models", AIAA Journal, 56, (10), pp. 4087--4111

Conference Proceedings

  • Ashwin Renganathan and Kade Carlson, 2025, "qPOTS: Efficient batch multiobjective Bayesian optimization via Pareto optimal Thompson sampling", International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 258, pp. 4051-4059

Research Projects

  • January 2020 - January 2020, "Statistics and Machine Learning to Improve Reduced Order Models," (Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) program).
  • March 2019 - October 2019, "Deep Gaussian process for automated decision making," (Sponsor: Siemens Corporate Technology).

Honors and Awards

  • AI for Societal Impact award, Penn State AI Hub, April 2025

Service

Service to Penn State:

Service to External Organizations:

  • Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Chairperson, Conference Technical Discipline Chair, AIAA SciTech 2025, 2025
  • Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Chairperson, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Student Paper Competition Chair, AIAA, 2023