Dr. Venkat Raman

Venkat Raman is the James Arthur Nicholls Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He is also the Director of the Center for Prediction, Reasoning and Intelligence for Multphysics Exploration (C-PRIME). He has served on the faculty at UM since 2014, before which he was a faculty member at UT Austin. He is a recipient of the George J. Huebener, Jr. Research Excellence Award from the University of Michigan. He was elected Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2022 and serves as an Associate Editor of Combustion and Flame and the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power. As a faculty member, Raman has advised/is currently advising 40 PhD students and has published more than 225 peer-reviewed articles in archival journals and conferences. Raman's research interests lie in the broad area of computational propulsion, but he has more recently focused on the use of machine intelligence for scientific research.