Devina P. Sanjaya
Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE) Department
502 Dougherty Engineering Building
865-974-5309
dsanjaya at utk dot edu
Scientific Computing and Fluid Dynamics Lab (SCFDL)
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Recent News
Trenton Henderson was awarded the 2024 NSF Graduate Fellowship (Apr. 2024)
Thomas Scott was accepted to join the Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering program (with Prof. Tan-Bui Thanh) at the University of Texas - Austin (Feb. 2023)
Devina Sanjaya was invited as a guest speaker for Aviation Genius Hour at L&N STEM Academy (Feb. 2024)
Devina Sanjaya was selected to be the Technical Discipline Chair of MVCE for the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum (Jan. 2024)
Michael Davis was accepted to join the M.Sc. in Race Car Aerodynamics program at the University of Southampton, UK (Nov. 2023)
Devina Sanjaya gave a seminar talk at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Nov. 2023)
Devina Sanjaya and Trenton Henderson started the partnership with L&N STEM Academy (Oct. 2023)
Devina Sanjaya created a summer mini-course for high school teachers on "AAM for Naval Applications", funded by the Office of Naval Research (Jul. 2023)
Ashley Bancroft and Maushmi Thirumaran completed the SEAL for Navy Summer Program, funded by the Office of Naval Research (Jul. 2023)
Devina Sanjaya was featured by SIAM for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May 2023)
Research
Scalable, high-order CFD methods
Uncertainty quantification and machine learning
Error estimation
Mesh adaptation, optimization, and generation
Education
"Education gives you the right to knock on a door, but it's up to you on how to turn that knock into a valuable experience that will lead you to the next door of opportunities."
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing (2019)
Advisor: Krzysztof J. Fidkowski
Dissertation: Towards Automated, Metric-Conforming, Mesh Optimization for High-Order, Finite-Element Methods
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with minor in Mathematics (2011)
M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics (2014)
Professional Affiliations
MGB-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Early Career Fellow
UTK Office of the Provost Research Development Academy Scholar
Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE)
NASA Ames Research Center Visiting Scientists (Summer 2019, 2017, 2016)
Zonta International Amelia Earhart
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (WINASc)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)