Animesh Rastogi and Ashkan Madadi were recognized at the IMECE 2022 Conference this weekend.

Texas CAEE student Animesh Rastogi standing on stage

Rastogi has won the best poster awardin Computing in Applied Mechanics Student Poster Competition for his work on “Modeling Curvature-Resisting Surfaces of Soft Solid-Bilayer Hybrids”. The research was co-authored by Prof. Manish Kumar and Prof. Berkin Dortdivanlioglu, both of UT Austin. Rastogi beat out finalists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, and Texas A&M University.

Madadi has received the Haythornthwaite Foundation Student Travel Award to attend the IMECE 2022 conference and present in the Track: Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids. This award was selected by the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME.