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Abhiraj Sharma

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Abhiraj Sharma

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
(Jointly with Materials Engineering)

  • BTech: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 2016
  • MS: Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021
  • PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022



  • Selected Publications

    1. Sharma, A., Metere, A., Suryanarayana, P., Erlandson, L., Chow, E., Pask, J., 2023. GPU acceleration of local/semilocal density functional calculations in the SPARC electronic structure code. arXiv:2302.09708

    2. Sharma, A., Suryanarayana, P., 2023. On the calculation of phonons in real-space density functional theory. arXiv:2202.13534

    3. Sharma, A., Suryanarayana, P., 2021. Real-space density functional theory adapted to cyclic and
      helical symmetry: Application to torsional deformation of carbon nanotubes. Physical Review B 103
      (3), 035101

    4. Sharma, A., Suryanarayana, P., 2018. On the calculation of the stress tensor in real-space Kohn-Sham density functional theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics 149 (19), 194104

    5. Sharma, A., Hamel, S., Bethkenhagen, M., Pask, J.E., Suryanarayana, P., 2020. Real-space formulation of the stress tensor for O(N) density functional theory: Application to high temperature calculations. The Journal of Chemical Physics 153 (3), 034112

    6. Sharma, A., Suryanarayana, P., 2018. On real-space Density Functional Theory for non-orthogonal crystal systems: Kronecker product formulation of the kinetic energy operator. Chemical Physics Letters 700, 156-162

  • Work Experience

    • Post Doctoral Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology, (May 2022 – June 2022)
    • Post Doctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, (June 2022 – Till Date)

  • Awards

    • Wang Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology 2016 – 2021
    • Institute Silver Medal, IIT Roorkee 2016
    • Madhusudan Dayal Mithal Medal, IIT Roorkee 2016
    • Raj Bahadur Sohan Lal Bhatia Medal, IIT Roorkee 2016
    • Prabhakar Swarup Civil Engineering Award, IIT Roorkee 2016