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“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
- Aristotle
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Scientific Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Director, Aerospace Sciences and ComputationAI Laboratory
Associate Director, ViSTA Labs
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Towards 'exceptional service in the national interest.'
Arturo Rodriguez
- Ph.D. Graduate in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at El Paso- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (NSF GRFP Fellow)- U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Fellow (DOE NNSA NGFP Fellow)EDUCATION
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, UTEP, El Paso, TX (Fall 2024)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, UTEP, El Paso, TX (Spring 2020)
Interests: Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence, Hypersonics, Boundary-Layer Transition, and Scientific Computing
CV, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, Email: arturo.rodriguez@tamuk.edu
Incoming Graduate Research Assistants
Aditya Chennapragada - Ph.D. Research Assistant in Mechanical Engineering, TAMUK
MSE, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Sciences - University of Pennsylvania
B.Tech, Manufacturing Engineering - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Nicolas J. Torres - Ph.D. Research Assistant in Mechanical Engineering, TAMUK
B.S., Mechanical Engineering - Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Tejas Badakere Gopalakrishna - Ph.D. Research Assistant in Mechanical Engineering, TAMUK
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering - University of California, San Diego
B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering
Graduate Research Assistants
Avinash Potluri, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, TAMUK
B.S. in Industrial and Production Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology
Thesis Title: Finite Differences for Shock Waves and Sound Waves
Gopishwar Sharma Palepu, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, TAMUK
B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Malla Reddy College of Engineering and Technology
Thesis Title: Deep Learning for Compressible Flows
Katrina I. Sanchez, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, TAMUK
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Thesis Title: Computational Fluid Dynamics for Aeroacoustics in Commercial Aircraft Shear Flows
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Andrew R. Ybarra, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, TAMUK
Robotics Technology
Co-Advised with Prof. Vinod Kumar and Dr. Vineeth Vijaya-Kumar
Noah L. Estrada, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, TAMUK
Verification and Validation of C-D Nozzles
Chelsea M. Caballero, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, TAMUK
Dow Endowed Research Scholar
Non-Destructive Testing Computational Techniques for Material Failure
High School Researchers
Vyom Kumar
Computer Vision and Image Processing
Aryan Singh
Computational Fluid Dynamics for Biological Flows
Laila Ali
Optimization / Operations Research
Benay Ozcelik
Computational Fluid Dynamics for Biological Flows
Alumni
Alan M. Hernandez, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, TAMUK
Hypersonics and Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Fall 2025
Taylor N. Garcia, B.S. in Computer Science, TAMUK
High-Performance Computing and Small Language Models
Fall 2025
David L. Heinsler, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, TAMUK
Robotics
Fall 2025
Kate Reza, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, UTEP, Grad Date: Dec 2026
Heat Transfer and Finite Differences
Rene D. Reza, B.S. in Computer Science, UTEP, Grad Date: Dec 2027
Phase Field Modeling and Finite Differences
Marc A. Cantu, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, TAMUK, Grad Date: Dec 2025
Propulsion
Collaborators
Prof. Vinod Kumar | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Prof. Selahattin Ozcelik | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Prof. Xue Yang | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Prof. Jose Espiritu | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Prof. Hua Li | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Mariee F. Cruz Mendoza | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Dr. Vineeth Vijaya Kumar | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Dr. Mohamed G. Elkhateeb | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Prof. Francisco O. Aguirre Ortega | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Prof. Marietta D. Saenz | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Prof. Venugopal Mendu | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Prof. Nuri Yilmazer | Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Prof. George Em Karniadakis | Brown University
Prof. Jorge A. Munoz | The University of Texas at El Paso
Prof. Omar Cedillos Barraza | The University of Texas at El Paso
Prof. Beverley Argus-Calvo | The University of Texas at El Paso
Jesus F. De Haro | The University of Texas at El Paso
Prof. Pablo Rangel | Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi
Prof. Jose Baca | Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi
Prof. Debjyoti Banerjee | Texas A&M University at College Station
Prof. Romit Maulik | Purdue University
Prof. Ashesh Chattopadhyay | University of California at Santa Cruz
Dr. Christopher Harris | DeepVein Inc
Payal Helambe | Cranfield University
Laura Sandoval | California State University, Long Beach
Jon Binner | University of Birmingham
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