Sid Kumar
Associate Professor
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSid Kumar is an Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at TU Delft with nine years of research and academic experience spanning Caltech, ETH Zurich, and École Polytechnique. His work sits at the intersection of computational mechanics, materials science, and machine learning, focusing on data-driven and physics-informed methods for the design and modeling of (meta-)materials. He earned a PhD in Aeronautics from Caltech where he developed maximum-entropy meshfree methods for multi-physics problems and has strong foundations in numerical analysis, PDE solvers, and HPC. At ETH he advanced ML-enabled materials design, and his academic trajectory demonstrates a clear evolution from algorithmic theory to applied, scalable computational tools. Colleagues describe him as someone who blends rigorous mathematical thinking with practical software and parallelization skills to tackle complex multiscale problems. Based in Delft, he combines top-tier international training with a pragmatic focus on bringing physics and ML together for real-world materials engineering.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Multi-physics and Multi-scale Modeling of Materials and Structures, GPA: 17/20, Master’s Degree, Multi-physics and Multi-scale Modeling of Materials and Structures, GPA: 17/20 at École PolytechniqueCalifornia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Computational Mechanics, 8.9 / 10.0, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Computational Mechanics, 8.9 / 10.0 at IIT Delhi
English, Hindi, Japanese
Github Skills (18)
bioengineering10
matlab10
tetgen10
segmentation10
geometry9
visualization9
finite-element-analysis8
python8
deep-learning8
gpu8
machine-learning8
neural-network6
tensorflow6
numpy5
gpu-acceleration3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mmc-group/inverse-designed-spinodoids
Oct 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years 5 months
siddhantk/siddhantk.github.io
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:30 pushes in 1 day
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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