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Principal Investigator

Fehmi Cirak

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Fehmi Cirak is Professor of Computational Mechanics. He joined Cambridge in March 2006 after five years as a Senior Scientist at the Center for Advanced Computing Research at Caltech. He received his PhD in Computational Mechanics from the University of Stuttgart and was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in Aeronautics at Caltech and a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests span statistical finite elements for digital twins, Bayesian inference, isogeometric analysis, and quantum computing.

Postdocs and PhD students

Yaswanth Sai Jetti

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Yaswanth is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and joined CSMLab in July 2025 after completing his PhD and MSc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His work develops statistical finite element methods for structural dynamics and imperfect geometries, with applications to digital twins.
Yiren Wang

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Yiren joined CSMLab in October 2023 after completing her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at Tongji University. Her research combines computational mechanics and quantum computing, with a focus on computational homogenisation and uncertainty propagation.
Shehara Perera

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Shehara joined CSMLab in October 2023. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Moratuwa and was previously a Research Assistant at Imperial College London. His research develops immersed finite element methods and block-encoding techniques suitable for quantum implementation.
M. Fatih Gurbuz

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Fatih started his PhD in October 2024. He received his BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, where he worked on nonlinear system identification. His current research explores quantum-assisted machine learning techniques for structural dynamics.
Xiaohan Hu

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Xiaohan joined CSMLab in October 2025 after completing his BEng at Tongji University and MSc at Imperial College London, both in Civil Engineering. His research interests are in robust structural optimisation.

Visitors

Veronica Pesaresi

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Veronica is a visiting student who joined CSMLab in February 2026. She completed her undergraduate studies at Università Politecnica delle Marche and her master’s degree in Engineering Mechanics at Politecnico di Torino. Her work develops Fokker–Planck-based methods for structural dynamics.

Recent Alumni

Dr Oguzhan Yuksel
Dr Thomas Archbold
Dr Tianyi Liu
Dr Arnaud Vadeboncoeur
Dr Kim Jie Koh
Dr Eky Febrianto
Dr Xiao Xiao
Dr Qiaoling Zhang
Dr Ge Yin
Dr Sumudu Herath
Dr Arion Pons
Prof Hong Xiao
Dr Kosala Bandara
Dr Matija Kecman
Dr Musabbir Majeed
Dr Jakub Sistek
Dr Thomas Ruberg
Dr Burkhard Bornemann
Dr Quan Long
Dr Malcolm Sabin

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University of Cambridge
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