Devina Sanjaya

Assistant Professor

Biography

August 2019 – present
Assistant Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering Department
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

July 2019
Research Assistant Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering Department
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Summer 2019, 2017, and 2016 Visiting Scientist
NASA Ames Research Center

Research

• Numerical methods for scalable, high-order CFD methods
• High-order (curved) mesh adaptation, optimization, and generation
• Error estimation
• Verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) for CFD
• Scientific machine learning
• High-performance computing (HPC)
• Fundamentals of aerodynamics and fluids in aerospace engineering settings

Education

University of Michigan: Ann Arbor
PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing, 2019

Stanford University
MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014

University of Michigan: Ann Arbor
BS in Aerospace Engineering with minor in Mathematics, 2011

Professional Service

• Member: AIAA, SIAM, WINASc, ASEE, NCFDD
• Meshing Sub-Committee Chair of AIAA Meshing, Visualization, and Computational Environments (MVCE) Technical Committee
• Chair of MVCE Student Paper Competition for the 2026 AIAA SciTech Forum
• Technical Discipline Chair of MVCE for the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum
• Reviewer for: AIAA Journal, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Journal of Computational Physics, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Aerospace Science and Technology, Computer Physics Communications, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
• Proposal reviewer for: NSF, DOE, and NRL/ASEE
• ABET course coordinator for ME 391/397 (Engineering Analysis) and AE 201 (Aerospace Seminar)

Awards and Recognitions

• MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellowship, 2023-2025
• UTK Office of the Provost Research Development Academy Scholar, 2022
• François-Xavier Bagnoud Fellowship, 2016-2019
• Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship, 2016-2017
• Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Fellowship, 2015-2016
• Honor Societies: Tau Beta Pi, 2011; Sigma Gamma Tau, 2010

Publications

Please see personal website.