Group members

Boris Krämer



Principal Investigator
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4209 | +1 (858) 246-5327
Boris Kramer is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego. Before that, he spent four years as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before that, he got his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Virginia Tech. At UCSD, Professor Kramer is a member of the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCoM), Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, the Center for Extreme Events Research (CEER).

Harsh Sharma

Postdoc
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4205
Harsh is interested in combining the perspectives of structure-preserving model reduction and machine learning to build physics-informed surrogate models of large-scale dynamical systems. Prior to joining the group, Harsh obtained his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and M.S. in Mathematics from Virginia Tech, where he worked on structure-preserving and energy-preserving methods for numerical integration of structured systems. More info on his webpage.

Yulin Guo

Postdoc
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4205
Yulin is interested in developing uncertainty quantification and surrogate modeling methods for large-scale engineering systems. Prior to joining the group, Yulin obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Vanderbilt University and M.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In his Ph.D., he worked on prediction uncertainty quantification methodology development for high-dimensional problems. Please see his webpage for more info.

Nate Linden-Santangeli


PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (started Fall 2020, co-advised with Prof. Padmini Rangamani)
Nate is interested in developing uncertainty quantification and data-driven modeling methods to improve the predictive power of mathematical models of cellular signaling systems. Nate joined UCSD with a B.S. in Bioengineering and Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington. More info on his webpage.

Nick Corbin


PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (started Fall 2021)
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4208
Nick is developing scalable numerical methods for nonlinear balanced truncation and, more broadly, for nonlinear control. Before joining the group, Nick earned his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech, with his M.S. thesis focusing on structural vibration testing. More info on his webpage.

Opal Issan


PhD Student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (started Fall 2021)
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4207
Opal is interested in reduced order modeling, numerical methods for partial differential equations, and physics-informed machine learning techniques with applications to space weather and solar physics. Prior to joining the group, she completed her undergraduate in Applied Mathematics from San Diego State University. More info on her webpage.

Hyeonghun Kim


PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (started Fall 2022)
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4207
Hyeonghun is interested in data-driven reduced-order modeling for large-scale nonlinear multiphysics problems. Prior to joining the group, he received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Handong University, South Korea. More info on his webpage.

Steven Nguyen

PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (started Fall 2023, co-advised with Prof. Jorge Cortes)
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4208
Steven is interested in researching data-driven approaches to modeling and control of large-scale dynamical systems. He is also interested in studying lifting transformations and their applications to non-autonomous systems. Prior to joining the group, Steven received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at University of California Santa Barbara, where he worked on Koopman operator theory.

Dylan Hirsch
PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (started Fall 2023, co-advised with Prof. Sylvia Herbert)
Dylan is interested in developing methods for safety-critical control and reduced-order modeling, with applications to both cyber-physical and biological systems. He received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and his S.M. in Biological Engineering from MIT. Through his master's research, he became excited about systems and control theory, inspiring his transition across fields.

Albani Olivieri

PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (started Fall 2024)
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4208
Albani's interests are in optimization algorithms in the field of model order reductions for complex models such as Partial Differential Equations. Specifically, she works on quadratization and polynomialization algorithms for PDEs, both symbolically and from data. Before joining the group, she got her M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science Engineering at Universidad de Chile in Santiago, where she worked on designing and developing a quadratization/lifting algorithm for PDE models. In Fall 2022, she interned with Prof. Gleb Pogudin and Ecole Polytechnic where she also worked on quadratization algorithms. More info on her webpage

Jaime Landeros

PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (started Fall 2024)
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4207
aime is interested in data-driven reduced-order modeling and inverse problems in space weather. Prior to joining the group, Jaime completed a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona and a three-year internship with the NASA Goddard Solar Physics Laboratory where he explored physics-based surrogate modeling, uncertainty quantification, and data analysis in space weather and liquid propulsion applications. Check out his website.

Justin Burzachiello
PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (started Winter 2025)
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4205
Justin's research interests span scientific machine learning, tensor algebra, and high-performance computing, with broad applications in science and engineering. He previously interned as a SULI software engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and as an industrial X‑ray CT systems engineer at VJ Technologies. Before joining the group, Justin earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of California, Riverside and an M.S. in Computational Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University.
Undergraduate Students

Anique Dittrich
BS student in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in Renewable Energy and Environmental Flows (Junior)
Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4208 (during Summer 2024)
Anique is interested in researching how quadratization algorithms obtain new sets of variables to describe complex dynamics that can be leveraged in operator learning for Koopman observables. She is also interested in developing renewable energy systems and is an active member of UC San Diego's Human Powered Submarine as a co-lead of the drivetrain team.