Prashant Kumar

Prashant Kumar

PhD Scholar (PMRF) · Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Exploring

PMRF FellowLOTUS Fellow · RIKEN R-CCS

Research Summary

My research focuses on Scientific Machine Learning with emphasis on Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), compressible flows with shocks, multiscale turbulent flow modeling, and GPU-accelerated high-performance computing. I develop data-free and hybrid attention-based frameworks for computational fluid dynamics.

Data-Free PINNs

Solving flow problems from the governing equations alone, without training data.

Shocks & Compressible Flow

Robust physics-informed models for shocks and shock–boundary layer interactions.

Multiscale Turbulence

Attention-based and multiscale networks that capture long-range dependencies.

Turbomachinery

Turbo-PINN, wake prediction in low-pressure turbines, and LES of the SPLEEN cascade.

GPU & HPC

underPINN, a modular JAX-based framework, and GPU-accelerated simulation.

Latest News

Sep 2026
Attended the RIKEN International HPC Summer School 2026 (Sep 7–11).
2026
underPINN, a JAX-based framework for physics-informed ML, submitted to ICLR 2027.
2026
GPU-accelerated LES of the SPLEEN low-pressure turbine cascade accepted at NAPC 2027.
Jul 2026
Tutor for Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics (AE33) on NPTEL.
Jun 2026
Started the LOTUS Fellowship at RIKEN R-CCS, Kobe, Japan.
Apr 2026
Ran the Next-gen Robotics workshop at NIT Hamirpur.
Jan 2026
Robust data-free PINN for compressible flows with shocks published in Computer and Fluids.
Dec 2025
Third place with honourable mention in the poster session at CASML 2025, IISc Bangalore.

Contact

Email: kumarp22@iitk.ac.in

Affiliation: Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur

GitHub: iitkprashant