Group Leader
Dr. Md Rushdie Ibne Islam
Rushdie holds a PhD and an MTech from IIT Kharagpur, and a BE from Jadavpur University.
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture at IIT Kharagpur.
His previous experience includes faculty positions at IIT Delhi and BITS Pilani, postdoctoral research at Technion–Israel
and Virginia Tech, and industry research as a Senior Researcher at ESS Engineering Software Steyr in Austria.
Email: mrii@naval.iitkgp.ac.in
Current Group Members
Ph.D. Students
- Vishabjeet Singh (January 2024 – Present, IIT Delhi)
Research Interests: Computational Damage Mechanics, Fluid–Geomaterial–Structure Interaction, Mesh-Free Methods
Alumni
M.S. (Research) Students
- Jerome Samuel S (July 2023 – February 2026, IIT Delhi)
Thesis: A Hierarchical Multiscale Computational Framework for Modeling Thermo-Mechanical Behavior of Polyimides
M. Tech. Students
- Subhanu Banerjee (Batch 2023 – 2025, IIT Delhi)
Thesis: Numerical Modelling of Interfacial Cracking with Soft and Hard Inclusions using Ordinary State-based Peridynamics
B. Tech. Students
- Mridul Tiwari (Batch 2021 – 2025, IIT Delhi)
Thesis: A Novel Class of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Algorithms for Computational Mechanics Applications