Satchi Venkataraman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at San Diego State University. His expertise is in the areas of Composite Materials, Progressive and Fatigue Failure Predictions in Composites, Design of Optimal tests for Model Validation and Calibration, Aerospace Structures Analysis and Design, Structural Optimization, Uncertainty Quantification, and Biomimetic Design. He was a technical co-organizer for the 2024 American Society for Composites Technical Conference.Sagar Patil is a postdoctoral scholar with research focusing on computational-driven design of high-performance materials to establish structure-property-processing relationships. He received his PhD from Michigan Technological University. Sagar’s research interests are implementing molecular dynamics and density functional theory to model complex chemistries in thermosets and thermoplastic materials for process modeling, space and energy storage applications. Ivan Gallegos was a postdoctoral scholar with expertise in atomistic modeling of pyrolysis to produce carbon and ceramic matrices. He has shifted his focus to pyrolytic chemistry of jet fuels and is currently at the Air Force Research Laboratory.Gregory Odegard is the John O. Hallquist Endowed Chair in Computational Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Tech. He is the Director of the NASA Institute for Ultra-Strong Composites by Computational Design, which is focused on developing the next generation of composite materials for crewed deep-space missions. Before joining the faculty at Michigan Tech, Greg was a researcher at NASA Langley Research Center from 2000-2004. He received his PhD at the University of Denver in 2000. His research is focused on computational modeling of advanced composite systems. He is the recipient of the NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal, is a Fellow of ASME, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA.
