John T. Hwang
Associate Professor · Director
People
Researchers advancing large-scale design optimization at UC San Diego.
Our members develop methods, algorithms, software, and engineering applications for large-scale design optimization. The roster includes current researchers as well as selected recent collaborators and alumni whose work remains represented across the site.
Director
Postdoctoral scholars
Anugrah Jo Joshy
Postdoctoral scholar
PhD students
Andrew H. Fletcher
PhD candidate
Jonathan Zerez
PhD student
Luca Scotzniovsky
PhD candidate
Marius L. Ruh
PhD candidate
Mark Z. Sperry
PhD candidate
Michael A. P. Warner
PhD candidate
Nicholas C. Orndorff
PhD candidate
Sebastiaan P. C. van Schie
PhD candidate
Alumni
Aoran Tian
MS graduate · PhD student, University of Sydney
Bingran Wang
PhD graduate and postdoctoral alumnus · Lecturer, University of Sydney
Darshan Sarojini
Postdoctoral alumnus · Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Jiayao Yan
PhD graduate · 1X
Joshua J. Krokowski
PhD graduate · Firefly Aerospace
Ru Xiang
PhD graduate · Envision Energy
Soliman S. Villapando
MS graduate · Air Force Research Laboratory
Victor Gandarillas
PhD graduate · Sandia National Laboratories
Sergio Sandoval
PhD graduate · NASA Johnson Space Center
Rajashekar Swaminathan
MS graduate · Virginia Tech
Charles Whitaker
MS, 2024 · U.S. Army
Ning Li
MS, 2020 · PhD student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ryan Dunn
MS, 2023 · Anduril
Tae Hyun Ha
MS, 2020 · skyTran
Thomas Nascenzi
MS, 2020 · M4 Engineering
Timothy Cuatt
MS, 2022 · M4 Engineering
Xiangbei Liu
MS, 2022 · PhD student, Dartmouth