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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

  • Kade Carlson and Ashwin Renganathan, 2026, "Multiobjective aerodynamic optimization of the NASA common research model", Aerospace Science and Technology, 168, (111120)
  • Muhammad Bilal and Ashwin Renganathan, 2026, "Convolutional Regularized Least Squares Framework for Reduced Order Modeling of Transonic Flows", Physics of Fluids, 38, (036107)
  • 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

Conference Proceedings

  • Peter Bachman, Kade Carlson and Ashwin Renganathan, 2026, "A Bayesian Approach to Multiobjective Aerodynamic Shape Optimization", AIAA, 0367
  • Muhammad Bilal, Kumaraguru Sethunarayanan and Ashwin Renganathan, 2026, "An Efficient Parametric Reduced Basis Method to Emulate Fluid Flow with Shocks", AIAA, 2404
  • Geoffrey Davis and Ashwin Renganathan, 2026, "Uncertainty Quantification via Latent Gaussian Process Surrogates for the Second AIAA Fluid Dynamics UQ Challenge Problem", AIAA, 0095
  • 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
  • SIAM Early Career Travel Award, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), July 2021

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