Ankit Srivastava

  • Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs in the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering

Education

Ph.D. Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2009)
M.S. Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2006)
B.Tech. Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (2004)

Research Interests

Ankit Srivastava's research spans fundamental aspects of wave propagation in heterogeneous media, inverse material design for wave control, micromechanics and homogenization theory, mechanics and control strategies for soft robots, and data-driven mechanics. The application areas of the research include cloaking, shock wave mitigation, transducer design, vibration control, energy-flow control, Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), and virtual sensors.

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

  • Associate Editor, Mechanics of Materials Journal

Awards

  • MMAE Excellence in Teaching Award, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2020
  • MMAE Excellence in Research Award, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2017
  • NSF CAREER Award: Transformation Elastodynamics and its Application to Wave Control in Solids, National Science Foundation, (award CMMI 1554033, $500,000), Feb 2016-Jan 2021

Publications

  • Khodavirdi, Hossein, and Ankit Srivastava, 鈥淭he analytical structure of acoustic and elastic material properties.鈥 Wave Motion, 108 (2022): 102837. ()
  • Sukumar, N., and Ankit Srivastava, "Exact imposition of boundary conditions with distance functions in physics-informed deep neural networks." Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 389 (2022): 114333. ()
  • Graeme W. Milton and Ankit Srivastava, 鈥淔urther comments on Mark Stockman鈥檚 article Criterion for Negative Refraction with Low Optical Losses from a Fundamental Principle of Causality鈥 ()
  • Chin, Eric B., Amir Ashkan Mokhtari, Ankit Srivastava, and N. Sukumar. 鈥淪pectral extended finite element method for band structure calculations in phononic crystals.鈥 Journal of Computational Physics, 2020
  • Srivastava, Ankit. 鈥淐ausality and passivity: From electromagnetism and network theory to metamaterials.鈥 Mechanics of Materials, 2020
  • Amir Ashkan Mokhtari, Yan Lu, Qiyuan Zhou, Alireza V. Amirkhizi and Ankit Srivastava, 鈥溾,&苍产蝉辫;International Journal of Engineering Science, 2020
  • Amir Ashkan Mokhtari, Yan Lu and Ankit Srivastava, "", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2019
  • Amir Ashkan Mokhtari, Yan Lu and Ankit Srivastava, "", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2019
  • Finol D, Lu Y, Mahadevan V, Srivastava A. "" Int J Numer Methods Eng., 2018
  • Yan Lu and Ankit Srivastava, "", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 111, 100-112, 2018
  • Ankit Srivastava and John R. Willis, "", Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2017
  • Yan Lu and Ankit Srivastava, "", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2017
  • Yan Lu, Yang Yang, James K. Guest, and Ankit Srivastava, "", Scientific Reports, 2017
  • Ankit Srivastava, "Metamaterial Properties of Periodic Laminates", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 96 252-263, 2016
  • Ankit Srivastava, "", Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2015
  • Ankit Srivastava, "", invited paper in IJSNM special issue on metamaterials, 2014

Expertise

  • Wave propagation
  • Micromechanics and homogenization
  • Deep learning and data-driven mechanics
  • Optimization and inverse problems