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Sebastian Ares de Parga Regalado
Postdoctoral Scholar, Aeronautics and Astronautics
BioA Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, specializing in reduced-order modeling, scientific machine learning, computational mechanics, and digital twins. His research focuses on combining physics-based modeling and machine learning to accelerate complex numerical simulations toward real-time applications in solid and fluid mechanics. With over six years of research experience, including leading innovative projects at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and a former Fulbright Visiting Researcher appointment at Stanford, his work aims to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world engineering applications.
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Manan Arya
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsManan Arya leads the Morphing Space Structures Laboratory. His research is on structures that can adapt their shape to respond to changing requirements. Examples include deployable structures for spacecraft that can stow in constrained volumes for launch and then unfold to larger sizes in space, terrestrial structures with variable geometry, and morphing robots. Key research thrusts include lightweight fiber-reinforced composite materials to enable innovative designs for flexible structures, and the algorithmic generation of the geometry of morphing structures – the arrangement of stiff and compliant elements – to enable novel folding mechanisms.
He has published more than 20 journal and conference papers and has been awarded 5 US patents. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a Technologist at the Advanced Deployable Structures Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where he developed and tested breakthrough designs for space structures, including deployable reflectarrays, starshades, and solar arrays.
