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1. Selvakumar ULAGANATHAN
Oudevest 13, Ghent 9000, Belgium.
Tel: [phone], Email:, Date of Birth: 01.03.1988
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Ghent University, Belgium. Engineering (Pursuing)EDUCATION
Feb. 2012 -
Feb. 2016 Surrogate Modeling (SUMO)
Research at the intersection of Software Engineering, Simulation and Machine Learning.
Developed and implemented various metamodelling matlab packages to the existing
use in computational science and engineering.
Designed and demonstarted
Designed and demonstarted
Designed and demonstarted
Craneld University, UK. Computational Fluid Dynamics
Oct. 2010 -
Sept. 2011 Trained in CFD software development, uncertainty management, test and validation.
Hands on experience on various commerical CFD-related softwares.
Trained in solving CFD problems of various areas of research: aerospace, automotive, biomedical, etc.
Designed and demonstarted
Thesis:Design of Experiments and Kriging Methodology for Aerodynamic Shape Optimisation
A novel metamodelling approach
Developed: PARSEC, Hammersley sequence sampling scheme and Kriging in GNU/LINUX environment.
Used: ICEM CFD, FLUENT, XFOIL and Genetic algorithm softwares.
Anna University Chennai, India. Aeronautical EngineeringAug. 2005-
April 2009
First class Degree with distinction in Engineering
Thesis:Application of PARSEC Geometry Representation for Aerodynamic Optimisation
Parameterisation techniques were investigated to parameterise the shape of an aircraft wing (PARSEC
& Bezier).
Designed and demonstrated
Aerodynamic shape optimisation is performed at the intersection of parameterisation techniques, CFD
solvers and optimizers.
Guest Researcher Engineering Optimization and Modeling CenterEXPERIENCE
April 2015-
July 2015 Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Integration of CAD and analysis tools (CFD/FEM/Metamodels) for design & optimization of antennas.
Ulterior goal: Application of metamodels to various aeronautical & electrical problems.
Achievements so far: 1 conference paper is submitted.
Lecturer Department of Aeronautical Engineering
Jul 2009-
May 2010 Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamilnadu, India.
Full-time Lecturer to students of age range 18-20.
Academic in charge of low speed aerodynamics laboratory & simulation and modelling laboratory
Areas of teaching modules: Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, CFD.
AWARDS/
HONORS Travel grant for long stay abroad to carry out scientic research:.
Course director's masters scholarship worth of 5000 GBP: Craneld university, UK (2012).
Conference session chair: ICANN 2015, Amsterdam, May 14-15, 2015.
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2. JOURNAL
PUBLICATIONS
High Dimensional Metamodelling Utilising Gradient Information. In:Journal of Applied Mathematical
Modelling (submitted - available upon request), 2014.
Performance Study of Gradient Enhanced Kriging. In:Engineering with Computers, DOI: 10.1007/s00366-
015-0397-y, 2015.
Performance Study of Multi-delity Gradient Enhanced Kriging. In:Structural and Multidisciplinary
Optimization, DOI: 10.1007/s00158-014-1192-x , 2014.
Building Accurate Radio Environment Maps from Multi-Fidelity Spectrum Sensing Data. In:(Journal of)
Ad Hoc Networks (submitted - available upon request), 2013.
Application of Nontraditional Optimization Techniques for Airfoil Shape Optimization . In:Modelling and
Simulation in Engineering, Volume 2012, Article ID 636135, 2012.
Inuence of Search Algorithms on Aerodynamic Design Optimisation of Aircraft Wings. In:International
Journal of Soft Computing, Volume 7, Issue:2, pp: 79-84, 2012.
CONFERENCE
PUBLICATIONS
AMATLAB toolbox for Kriging Metamodelling. In:ICCS 2015: International Conference on Compu-
tational Science, Iceland, 2015.
On the use of Gradients in Kriging Surrogate Models. In:2014 Winter Simulation Conference, GA,
USA, 2014.
Variable-delity surrogate modelling with Kriging. In:ICANN 2015 : XIII International Conference
on Articial Neural Networks, 2015.
Eect of Variogram Types on Surrogate Model based Optimisation of Aircraft Wing Shapes. In:Elsevier
Procedia Engineering, Volume 38, pp: 2713-2725, 2012
Adaptive Free Boundary Approach to Simulate Liquid Flow in Micro Channels with Slip Boundary Conditions.
In:Simulation and Modeling of Biological Flows, 2011, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Optimum Hierarchical Bezier Parameterisation of Arbitrary Curves and Surfaces. In: 11
th
Annual AeSI CFD
Symposium at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2009. pp 47-48
BOOK
CHAPTER
Surrogate Models for Aerodynamic Shape Optimisation. In:Surrogate-Based Modeling and Optimization:
Applications in Engineering, Chapter 12, pp: 285-312, 2013.
Programming:C, C++, MATLAB, PYTHON, FORTRAN 77/90, MPI, LINUX SHELL SCRIPTINGCOMPUTING
SKILLS
Geometrical and Meshing Softwares:CATIA V5R20, GAMBIT 2.4, ICEM CFD 12.1
CFD Softwares:FLUENT 12.1, ANSYS 12, XFOIL 6.97, OPENFOAM 1.7 [Basic]
Post-Processing Softwares:GNUPLOT 4.4, TECPLOT 360, PARAVIEW 3.8
Operating Systems:MAC, UNIX/LINUX, MICROSOFT WINDOWS
English [excellent], Tamil [mother tongue]LANGUAGES
Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), UK Aliate memberMEMBERSHIP
Prof. dr. ir. Tom Dhaene,REFERENCES
Professor, SUrrogate MOdelling (SUMO) Laboratory, Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent
University, Belgium. Email:[email protected]
Dr. Nikolas Asproulis MSc.PhD, Formerly Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Sciences,
School of Engineering, Craneld University, UK, Email:[email protected]
Dr. Raman Balu MS.PhD (IISc) , (Formerly Group Director, VSSC, ISRO, India),
Dean, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education (NICHE), India.
Email:[email protected]
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