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Dr. Ashwin Ramasubramaniam

Assistant Professor

Ashwin Ramasubramaniam208C ELab
University of Massachusetts
160 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-2210
E-mail: ashwin_at_engin.umass.edu
Phone: (413)545-4866
Fax: (413) 545-1027

 


Education:
B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology (Mumbai), 1999
Sc. M., Brown University, 2002
Ph. D., Brown University, 2005

Research Interests:
Computational Materials Science; Mechanical and Electronic properties of Graphene; Multiscale and Multiphysics Models of Hydrogen Embrittlement; Morphological Evolution and Self-Assembly in Thin Films

Honors & Awards:
William N. Findley Award for the best paper on the “Mechanical Behavior of Materials”, Brown University, 2005
Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Award, 2004
University Fellowship, Brown University, 1999

Selected Archival Publications:

  • A. Ramasubramaniam, N. V. Medhekar, and V. B. Shenoy, Substrate-induced magnetism in epitaxial graphene, Nanotechnology 20, 275705, 2009.
  • A. Ramasubramaniam, M. Itakura, and E. A. Carter, Interatomic potentials for hydrogen in a-iron based on density functional theory, Physical Review B  79 , 174101, 2009.
  • V. B. Shenoy, C. D. Reddy, A. Ramasubramaniam, and Y.-W. Zhang,  Edge-stress induced warping of graphene sheets and nanoribbons, Physical Review Letters 101, 245501, 2008.
  • A. Ramasubramaniam and E. A. Carter, Coupled quantum-atomistic and quantum-continuum mechanics methods in materials research, Materials Research Society Bulletin 32 (11), 913-918, 2007.
  • A. Ramasubramaniam and V. B. Shenoy, Three-dimensional simulations of self-assembly of hut shaped Si-Ge quantum dots
  • Journal of Applied Physics 95, 7813-7824, 2004.


Personal Website: http://people.umass.edu/ashwin