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PhD

The University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Fusion Studies

• Advisor - Philip J Morrison
• Hamiltonian description of Hall and sub-electron scales in collisionless plasmas
  • Inverse cascade in strongly magnetized plasma simulations
  • Hamiltonian action principles for the extended MHD

MS in Physics

Tbilisi State University

• 3D modeling of Solar Coronal Closed structure formation and heating due to magneto-fluid coupling
• GitHub repo of the project with the uploaded thesis

Project manager of ASAP

KU Leuven

• Topics
  • Development of algorithms for space-resilient hardware testbed
  • Management of the consortium including KU Leuven, INAF Rome, KTH, IngeniArs, UNICAL

Teaching

USA, Belgium, Georgia

• More details in my section on teaching

Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow

KU Leuven, Campus Arenberg, Belgium

• Topics
  • Project STRIDE - Moment closure through equation discovery and deep learning
  • Advising one master thesis and 2 master projects.

Postdoctoral fellow

KU Leuven, Campus Arenberg, Belgium

• Topics
  • Predicting space weather events, solar activity, ionosphere etc
  • Co-advising three master thesis
  • Using equation discovery for reduced order modelling
• Advisor
  • Giovanni Lapenta

Postdoctoral fellow

LSCE, CEA Saclay, Saint-Aubin, France

• Topics
  • Predicting and estimating risk of extreme European heatwaves
  • Coupling machine learning and rare event algorithms
  • Convolutional Variational Autoencoders, Principal Components Analysis
  • Working with GPUs on Jean-Zay supercomputer to train Stochastic Weather Generators
• GitHub repo of the project
• Related manuscripts, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
• Advisor
  • Pascal Yiou

Postdoctoral fellow

École normale supérieure de Lyon, France

• Predicting extreme heatwaves
• Deep learning, ECMWF reanalysis, and General Circulation Model output analysis
• Co-advised one master student and one PhD student
• GitHub repo of the project
• Related manuscripts, Physical Review Fluids and arXiv
• Advisor
  • Freddy Bouchet

Postdoctoral fellow

Observatoire de la Côte d'Azure, Nice, France

• Cascades in strong imbalanced kinetic Alfvén wave turbulence
• 3D numerical simulations in C and data analysis in Python
• Related manuscripts, Journal of Plasma Physics and Astrophysical Journal Letters
• Advisor
  • Thierry Passot

Postdoctoral fellow

Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Berkeley, USA

• The states of plasmas that do not radiate self-consistently
• Asymptotic slow-fast manifold expansion of Maxwell-Vlasov
• Related manuscript, Journal of Plasma Physics

Research Project

École normale supérieure de Lyon, France

• Stochastic transitions in dipolar lattices between ferromagnetic states
• Relaxation to equilibrium and solitons in long-range extensions of FPUT.
• Simulations were performed using C and MATLAB.
• Related manuscripts, Europhysics Letters, Physical Review E and Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
• Advisor
  • Stefano Ruffo

• University of Texas Graduate Continuing Fellowship
• Nomination for Graduate School UT Austin graduate fellowship

• University of Texas Visualizing Science Award

• University of Texas Graduate scholarship

• Prof. Estate Khmaladze’s award in Theoretical Physics
• Prof. Antonino Zichichi’s World Federation of Scientists’ Scholarship

• Silver Medal in 7th Asian Physics Olympiad