During the spring semester, the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering welcomed Shivam Barwey as an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, further expanding the college’s expertise in advanced computational engineering.
Barwey’s research focuses on the intersection of scientific machine learning and computational fluid dynamics, with a specific goal of developing AI-driven models to advance the design of next-generation power and propulsion systems, including detonation engines and gas turbines.
“Professor Barwey will bring a new area of strength to our computational engineering group,” said Glen Niebur, professor and chair of aerospace and mechanical engineering. “With his work in physics-informed AI and machine learning approaches to solving large-scale engineering problems, he aims to provide engineers with insight into how these advanced techniques arrive at solutions. As AI plays a growing role in engineering design and analysis, this ability to obtain snapshots revealing the inner workings of the process will allow us to more effectively exploit its power while maintaining confidence in the solutions.”
Barwey leads the Scientific Computing and Propulsion Laboratory (SCPL), where his team designs computer programs to handle massive amounts of data. Using artificial intelligence, they seek to develop next-generation power and propulsion systems across a wide range of devices.
Barwey earned his bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin before completing his doctorate at the University of Michigan in 2022.
Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, he completed postdoctoral research at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and was later named an Argonne Energy Technology and Security Fellow within the Transportation and Power Systems division.
—Karla Cruise, Notre Dame Engineering