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Sebastiaan P. C. van Schie

PhD candidate

Sebastiaan P. C. van Schie

Develops projection-based model reduction and modular aeroelastic coupling for large-scale aircraft MDO.

Education

  • PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    UC San Diego · 2021–present
  • MSc, Applied Mathematics
    TU Delft · 2021
  • MSc, Aerospace Engineering
    TU Delft · 2021
  • BSc, Aerospace Engineering
    TU Delft · 2015

Papers

  1. Sebastiaan P. van Schie, John T. Hwang. Computational Framework for High-Fidelity Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Using Weighted POD. AIAA AVIATION 2026 Forum, 2026.
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  2. Sebastiaan P. van Schie, John T. Hwang. Towards Hyper-Reduced Weighted POD for Large-Scale Aerodynamic Design Optimization. AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 2026.
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  3. Bingran Wang, Seongha Jeong, Sebastiaan P. C. van Schie, Dongyeon Han, Jaeho Min, John T. Hwang. Knowledge-Guided Generative Surrogate Modeling for High-Dimensional Design Optimization Under Scarce Data. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2026.
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  4. Sebastiaan P. van Schie, Marius L. Ruh, Andrew H. Fletcher, Michael Warner, Mark Sperry, Luca Scotzniovsky, Nicholas C. Orndorff, Ru Xiang, Jiayao Yan, Han Zhao, Joshua Krokowski, Jiun-Shyan Chen, Darshan Sarojini, Hyunjune Gill, Seongkyu Lee, Andrew C. Tagg, Ryan Anderson, Eric Green, Cibin Joseph, Andrew Ning, Zeyu Cheng, Zhi Cao, Chunting Mi, Alexandre T. Guibert, Ashley Cronk, Alicia A. Kim, Shirley Meng, Christopher Silva, John T. Hwang. Large-Scale Distributed Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of the NASA Lift-Plus-Cruise Air Taxi Concept. AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, 2025.
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  5. Sebastiaan P. C. van Schie, Boris Kramer, John T. Hwang. Weighted Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for High-Dimensional Optimization. arXiv:2508.09084v1, 2025. Preprint
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  6. Marius L. Ruh, Andrew Fletcher, Darshan Sarojini, Mark Sperry, Jiayao Yan, Luca Scotzniovsky, Sebastiaan P. van Schie, Michael Warner, Nicholas C. Orndorff, Ru Xiang, Anugrah J. Joshy, Han Zhao, Joshua Krokowski, Hyunjune Gill, Seongkyu Lee, Zeyu Cheng, Zhi Cao, Chris Mi, Christopher Silva, Lauren Wolfe, Jiun-Shyan Chen, John T. Hwang. Large-scale multidisciplinary design optimization of a NASA air taxi concept using a comprehensive physics-based system model. AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024.
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  7. Darshan Sarojini, Marius Ruh, Jiayao Yan, Luca Scotzniovsky, Nicholas C. Orndorff, Ru Xiang, Han Zhao, Joshua Krokowski, Michael Warner, Sebastiaan van Schie, Ashley Cronk, Alexandre T. Guibert, Jeffrey T. Chambers, Lauren Wolfe, Rachel Doring, Robin Despins, Cibin Joseph, Ryan Anderson, Andrew Ning, Hyunjune Gill, Seongkyu Lee, Zeyu Cheng, Zhi Cao, Chris Mi, Ying Shirley Meng, Christopher Silva, Jiun-Shyan Chen, Alicia A. Kim, John T. Hwang. Review of Computational Models for Large-Scale MDAO of Urban Air Mobility Concepts. AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024.
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  8. Sebastiaan P. van Schie, Michael Warner, Andrew Fletcher, John T. Hwang. Enforcing Work Conservation in Modular Aeroelastic Coupling For Multidisciplinary Design Optimization. AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024.
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  9. Michael Warner, Andrew Fletcher, Sebastiaan P. van Schie, John T. Hwang. A Method for Modular MDO Model Assembly via a Solver Independent Field Representation. AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024.
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  10. Ru Xiang, Sebastiaan P. C. van Schie, Luca Scotzniovsky, Jiayao Yan, David Kamensky, John T. Hwang. Automating adjoint sensitivity analysis for multidisciplinary models involving partial differential equations. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (in press 2024, per CV), 2024.
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  11. Ryan M. Anderson, Andrew Ning, Ru Xiang, Sebastiaan P. C. van Schie, Mark Sperry, Darshan Sarojini, David Kamensky, John T. Hwang. Aerostructural Predictions Combining FEniCS and a Viscous Vortex Particle Method FLOWVPM. AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum, 2023.
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  12. Sebastiaan P. van Schie, John T. Hwang. Model Reduction of Isogeometric Shell Structures For Large-Scale Design Optimization. AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum, 2023.
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  13. Sebastiaan P. van Schie, Han Zhao, Jiayao Yan, Ru Xiang, John T. Hwang, David Kamensky. Solver-Independent Aeroelastic Coupling For Large-Scale Multidisciplinary Design Optimization. AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2023.
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