Summary
Vinamra Agrawal is a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory with eight years of research and academic experience bridging mechanical engineering, materials science, and aerospace. He earned his PhD and MS from Caltech, followed by faculty roles at Auburn University (assistant to associate professor) and a postdoc at JPL/Caltech, developing multiscale models for heterogeneous, ferroic, and multiferroic materials. His work blends mechanics-informed machine learning for accelerated materials discovery with the engineering of tunable metamaterials, reflecting both deep theory and applied design skills. Based in Auburn, Alabama, he combines strong academic credentials from IIT Kanpur and Caltech with hands-on national-lab problem solving, often translating multiscale theory into experimentally relevant design rules. An underappreciated strength is his cross-disciplinary fluency—equally comfortable in continuum mechanics, data-driven methods, and geoscience-adjacent applications.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at California Institute of Technology