Kevin Jose

Research Assistant

University of Cambridge

Hi!

I am a Research Assistant in the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge. I am currently exploring applications of AI in material science.

I recently defended my PhD at the University of Southampton, UK (in the Computational Engineering and Design Group).

My latest work demonstrates the existence of branched flows in thin elastic plates. Read the paper here and the blog post here.

From 2019-2022, I was a Marie Curie Fellow in the EU’s H2020 InDEStruct project. You can read a profile article about me and my work here.

I graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kanpur in 2017 with a BTech-MTech (Dual Degree). My master’s thesis was in the area of musical acoustics.

Education

PhD (Computational Engineering and Design Group), 2023
University of Southampton
BT-MT Dual Degree (Dept of Mechanical Engineering), 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Experience

Research Assistant

University of Cambridge

Mar 2023 – Present Cambridge

Researching applied machine learning tools for material science

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow

University of Southampton

May 2019 – Dec 2022 Southampton | Lem

Researching effect of structural periodicity and inhomogeneity in mechanical wave propagation and vibration
Industrial applications of the aforementioned will be explored at Vestas-Aircoil, Denmark

Associate

Boston Consulting Group

Nov 2018 – May 2019 New Delhi

Worked on a profit turnaround program for one of India’s largest steel manufacturers
Wrote a Python based code to collect and summarize defect occurrence in the final product. This was later deployed at the plant for use in maintenance planning and execution.

School of Engineering Fellow

New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Aug 2017 – Oct 2018 Brooklyn

Conducted research in the areas of electro-active materials (results published in Appl. Phys. Lett.) and wearable assistive technology
Took four graduate courses (GPA: 3.7 / 4.0)
Served as teaching assistant for two semesters for an undergraduate course
Received Best PhD Qualifying Exam Performance Award from the department