Aishwarya Rajiv Pawar
Title(s):
William March Scholar in Mechanical Engineering, Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Office
2026 Black Engr.
2529 Union Dr.
Ames, IA 50011
Information
Lab Website: https://www.cmialab.com/
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Goa
Awards and Honors
- William March Scholar in Mechanical Engineering (2022-2025)
- Second place in USACM-FRG Female Postdoc Presenter, 2021
- Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop at MIT, 2018
- The G. Sundback Graduate Fellowship (2019, 2018)
- Bradford and Diane Smith Graduate Fellowship, 2016
Interest Areas
- Computational Modeling
- Image Analysis
- Computational Mechanics
- Parallel and High-Performance Computing
Publications
Pawar, A., Li, L., Gosain, A.K. et al. PDE-constrained shape registration to characterize biological growth and morphogenesis from imaging data. Engineering with Computers (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-022-01682-x
Qian, K., Pawar, A., Liao, A. et al. Modeling neuron growth using isogeometric collocation based phase field method. Sci Rep 12, 8120 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12073-z
M.Tajdari*, A. Pawar*, H. Li*, A. Maqsood, S. Saha, Y. J. Zhang, J. F. Sarwark, W. K. Liu. “Image-based Modeling for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Mechanistic Machine Learning Analysis and Prediction”. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 374:113590, 2021. *The authors have contributed equally to the paper.
Li, J. Fu, Y. J. Zhang, A. Pawar. “A Trivariate T-spline based Framework for Modeling Heterogeneous Solids”. Computer Aided Geometric Design, 81:101882, 2020.
Pawar, Y. J. Zhang. “NeuronSeg_BACH: Automated Neuron Segmentation Using B-Spline Based Active Contour and Hyperelastic Regularization”. Communications in Computational Physics, 28(3):1219-1244, 2020.
Pawar, Y. J. Zhang, C. Anitescu, T. Rabzcuk. “Joint Image Segmentation and Registration Based on a Dynamic Level Set Approach Using Truncated Hierarchical B-splines”. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 78:3250-3267, 2019.
Pawar, Y. J. Zhang, C. Anitescu, Y. Jia, T. Rabzcuk. “DTHB3D_Reg: Dynamic Truncated Hierarchical B-Spline Based 3D Nonrigid Image Registration”. Communications in Computational Physics, 23(3):877-898, 2018.
Pawar, Y. Zhang, Y. Jia, X. Wei, T. Rabczuk, C. L. Chan, C. Anitescu. “Adaptive FEM-Based Nonrigid Image Registration Using Truncated Hierarchical B-splines”. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 72:2028-2040, 2016.