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Kumar Ankit

Associate Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Ankit's group specializes in the development and application of mesoscopic modeling approaches and their integration with continuum approaches for fundamental and applied research in microstructure science and engineering.

Recent stories

A steel manufacturing plant

Fulton Schools chemical and materials engineering faculty members taking on research project to make steel manufacturing carbon-free and eco-friendly

2022 NSF CAREER Award winners with 10 portraits

Eleven faculty members in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering have received NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Awards in 2022.

Kumar Ankit holds a steel ball bearing.

In a National Science Foundation CAREER Award project, Kumar Ankit is generating new knowledge of steel microstructures to strengthen steel manufacturing.

a graphic of a sphere with the outline of a cube over it

Associate Professor Yang Jiao and Assistant Professor Yi “Max” Ren are pioneering a new field of materials science involving artificial intelligence.

Additional stories

Photo of Kumar Ankit in front of a monitor with a snowflake. Photographer: Monique Clement/ASU

From random to predictable: The metal solidification process

ASU researcher Kumar Ankit created a simulation that can predict how metal solidifies, which could be a big deal for the future of manufacturing.