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Principal Investigator

Dr. Salah A. Faroughi
Postdoc: MIT
Ph.D.: Georgia Tech
Bio: Dr. Faroughi is an Assistant Professor at Texas State University. His research interests mainly focus on Energy and Environment dual challenge. Dr. Faroughi’s PhD dissertation investigates the effect of microstructures on the rheological, mechanical and thermal behaviors of particulate matters (e.g., soils, fluids, rocks and composites). Dr. Faroughi is also an active entrepreneur in the area of AI and software development. He founded & licensed TubeIn Fluids. He is now developing AssetScope — a SaaS platform for fiber-integrated smart assets.
Hobby: Bowling, Foosball, Ping Pong, Camping
Email: salah.faroughi@txstate.edu

 

Research Scholars and Postdoc Fellows

Dr. Mahmood Mousavi
Past Postdoc: Seoul National University, South Korea
Ph.D.: Shiraz University, Iran
Research Interests: His research interests mainly focus on the investigation and analysis of multiphase and reacting flows, across a wide range of scales from macroscopic to microscopic levels..
Hobby: Football, Camping
Email: mousavi@txstate.edu

 

Dr. Kourosh Mahjour
Past Postdoc: University of Campinas, Brazil
Ph.D.: University of Campinas, Brazill
Research Interests: His research interests mainly focus on accelerating aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty quantification in large-scale geo-systems using unsupervised machine learning.
Hobby: Football, Running
Email: mahjour@txstate.edu

 

Dr. MD Jashim Uddin
Past Job: Assistant Prof. at National University of Science and Technology, Sultanate of Oman
Ph.D.: Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman
Research Interests: His research interests mainly focus on magneto-rheological fluids, microfluidic phenomena, heat and mass transfer, and transport in porous media at pore-scale.
Hobby: Football, Cricket, Traveling
Email:  mqk18@txstate.edu

 

Graduate Students

Ramin Soltanmohammadi
B.Sc.: Petroleum Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
M.Sc.: Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research Interests: His research mainly focuses on developing physics-informed neural networks for simulating fluid flow in pore-scale, and modeling multi-physics phenomena including CO2/hydrogen underground storage.
Hobby: Tennis, Traveling
Email: r.soltanmohammadi@txstate.edu

 

Md. Mehedi Hasan
M.Phil.: Mathematics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh.
M.Sc.: Applied Mathematics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
B.Sc.: Mathematics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Research Interests: His research mainly focuses on computational fluid dynamics, viscoelastic fluid flow, magneto-rheological fluids, employing open-source code-bases such as OpenFOAM and Plabos.
Hobby: Playing Cricket, Gardening, Fishing
Email: tbm90@txstate.edu

 

Sonia Akter
B.Sc.: Civil Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh
Research Interests: Her research focuses on developing a high-fidelity sediment transport numerical model for scour mitigation strategies with high precision and reliability.
Hobby: Painting, Cooking
Email: aqi6@txstate.edu

 

Nikhil Pawar
B.Sc.: Civil Engineering, VIIT, India
Research Interests: His research interests focus on physics-encoding deep learning to develop accelerated, predictive computational modelling for multi-scale multi-temporal dynamics of particulate matter such as soil, rocks, fluids, etc.
Hobby: Basketball, Chess and Travelling
Email: lff19@txstate.edu

 

Jobayed Hossain Badhan
B.Sc.: Civil Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh
Research interests: His research interest lies within Computational Mechanics, Finite Element Modeling, Reliability and Probabilistic Risk Assessment. He is working on uncertainty quantification in subsurface H2 and CO2 storage.   
Hobbies: Travelling, Cycling, Gaming.
Email: ffc21@txstate.edu

 

Undergraduate Students

Sunistha Shakya
Major: Applied Mathematics, Computer Science
Research interests: Her research focuses on climate systems modeling and carbon management systems.
Hobbies: Travelling, Listening to music, Meditation.
Email: cxj7@txstate.edu

 

 

Cason Grumbles
Major: Civil Engineering
Research interests: His research interests include carbon capture and storage and optimizing the use of green energy systems.
Hobbies: Airsoft, Sailing, Fishing and Hunting.
Email: casongrumbles1@txstate.edu

 

 

Lane Totino
Major: Civil Engineering
Research interests: His research interests include carbon capture and storage and optimizing the use of green energy systems.
Hobbies: Fishing & Kayaking.
Email: alt181@txstate.edu

 

 

Alumni (Postdocs & Graduates)

Dr. Célio Fernandes
Past Postdoc: MIT (visiting)
Ph.D.: University of Minho, Portugal
Research Interests: His research interests mainly focus on development of numerical codes able to describe polymer processing processes, which use viscoelastic matrix-based fluids to rheologically characterize the continuum phase.
Hobby: Football, Running
Email: c1291@txstate.edu

 

Pingki Datta
B.Sc.: Civil Engineering, KUET, Bangladesh
Research Interests: Her research interests focus on prognostic modelling to forecast the non-linear dynamics of particulate matter such as soil, rocks, fluids, etc. using unsupervised data decomposition and deep learning methodologies. Pingki was recently awarded the P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship (IPS).
Hobby: Animation movies, Reading novels, Voluntarily social works
Email: xob3@txstate.edu

 

Shabda Priya Mocharla
B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India
Research Interests: Her research interests include green computing, sustainability engineering, and big data analytics in carbon storage and management.
Hobby: Songwriting, Music composition, Gardening
Email: umo11@txstate.edu

 

 

Santoshkumar Tiwari
B.Sc.: Information Technology, University of Mumbai. India
M.Sc.: Data Analytics and Information Systems, Texas State University, US
Research interests: His research interest lies in using data analytics techniques to better understand the complex relationships between climate variables and their effects on the natural and built environments. 
Hobbies: Watch/Play Cricket, Reading Non-fiction books.
Email: ukb7@txstate.edu

 

Alumni (Undergraduates)

 

Sergio Chan
B.Sc.: Computer Science, TXST, USA
Research interests: His research interests include analysis and modeling of data, machine learning methodologies and surrogate modeling. He is working on big climate data and subsurface flow modeling.

 

 

Grant Smith
Major: Computer Science
Research interests: His research interests include parallelization of serial algorithms, lossy data compression, and improvements to graph coloring algorithms for parallel computing.
Hobbies: Mathematics, Composing music, Writing.
Email: gcs37@txstate.edu

 

 

Melanie Garza
Major: Computer Science
Research interests: Her research focuses on infrastructure assessment for carbon management.
Hobbies: Video games, Muay Thai, Reading.
Email: mmg252@txstate.edu
 

 

Maverick Finn
Major: Computer Science
Research interests: His research interests include data compression and collation, data analysis, and data engineering.
Hobbies: Hiking, Paddle-boarding, Card games, Cooking.
Email: mdf79@txstate.edu

 

 

Aimen Ahsan Hafeez
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Her research focuses on infrastructure assessment for carbon management.
Hobbies: Running, Reading, Sewing, and Cooking.
Email: a_a1414@txstate.edu

 

 

Sofia Burgos
Major: Industrial Engineering & Applied Mathematics
Research interests: Her research interests include carbon capture and storage and optimizing the use of green energy systems.
Hobbies: Yoga & Listening to Music.
Email: jwc135@txstate.edu

 

 

Jackson McDonald
Major: Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Research interests: His research focuses on infrastructure assessment for carbon management technologies, especially carbon capture and storage.
Hobbies: Playing sports, Video games, and Being outdoors.
Email: jnm73@txstate.edu