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Name Indu Kant Deo
Label Research Scientist
Email indukant@mail.ubc.ca
Phone +1-604-618-2645
Url https://linkedin.com/in/indukantdeo
Summary A research scientist with a strong background in mechanical engineering, specializing in physics-based machine learning for solving partial differential equations and predicting fluid flow.

Work

  • 2024.05 - 2024.08

    Livermore, CA, USA

    Data Science Summer Institute Intern @ libROM Team
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop data-driven models for large-scale metal 3D printing, working across domains including scientific machine learning, additive manufacturing, and fluid dynamics.
    • Performed large-scale simulations on 112 HPC cores with Ansys Mechanical for additive manufacturing data
    • Developed a parameterized graph convolutional autoencoder for predicting distortion
    • Developed a POD-GP reduced-order model (ROM), and benchmarked it against the graph autoencoder
    • Applied Gaussian Process Regression to quantify uncertainty in the ROM predictions
    • Predicted distortion within 1e-3 mm in LPBF simulation and achieved speed-up by 1800 times using POD-GP
  • 2023.01 - Present

    Vancouver, Canada

    MITACS Accelerate Intern
    Clear Seas
    Developed real-time underwater noise prediction models using physics-informed machine learning for marine environmental research.
    • Leveraged high-performance computing (HPC) to generate large-scale acoustic datasets using BELLHOP solver
    • Developed a range-conditional convolutional neural network (RC-CAN) for predicting transmission loss
    • Introduced a continual learning framework for training dynamical systems with varying bathymetry
  • 2020.09 - Present

    Vancouver, Canada

    Graduate Research Assistant @ AI Team
    Computational Multi-physics Lab, UBC
    Conducting advanced research in machine learning models for spatial-temporal data, focusing on convolutional autoencoders and attention-based neural networks.
    • Developed convolutional autoencoder and attention-based RNN for time-series forecasting, improving performance by 5x compared to RNN-LSTM
    • Presented results at international conferences and published findings in the Artificial Intelligence issue of Physics of Fluids
    • Built a space-time ROM utilizing a 3D convolution kernel for fluid flow prediction, published in Physics of Fluids
  • 2017.03 - 2020.05

    Kharagpur, India

    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Autonomous Ground Vehicle Research Lab, IIT Kharagpur
    Led the development of vision modules and algorithms for autonomous vehicles, with a focus on deep learning and image processing.
    • Developed a new vision module using deep learning to upgrade image processing methods, improving computational efficiency and FPS
    • Devised a lane detection algorithm using machine learning, improving accuracy by 10%
    • Published lane-detection algorithm in IEEE conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision
    • Led team to 2nd place in the Autonomous Navigation Challenge at Oakland University, USA

Education

  • 2020.09 - 2025.04

    Vancouver, Canada

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    University of British Columbia
    Mechanical Engineering
    • Machine Learning Fundamentals
    • Deep Learning for Computer Vision
    • Numerical Methods for Deep Learning
    • Deep Learning with Graph
    • Introduction to Probability
    • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • 2016.07 - 2020.05

    Kharagpur, India

    Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    Aerospace Engineering
    • Algorithms and Data Structures
    • Deep Learning
    • Machine Learning
    • ML for Medicine

Skills

Technical Skills
Python
C/C++
PyTorch
PyTorch Geometric
TensorFlow
Keras
Numpy
scikit-learn
SciPy
Pandas
Matplotlib
OpenCV
High-Performance Computing
HuggingFace
Git
GitHub
Technical Skills
JAX
Flax
Julia
Spark
Docker
HTML
CSS
Azure
Microsoft Project

Awards

Publications

Projects

Volunteer

  • 2022.01 - Present
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    University of British Columbia
    Delivered tutorials and lab sessions for Data Science 100, Introduction to Probability, and Statistical Inferences courses at UBC, contributing to the education of over 300 students.
  • 2019.05 - 2020.05

    Kharagpur, India

    Team Head
    Autonomous Ground Vehicle Lab, IIT Kharagpur
    Managed a student design team of 40 UG students, developing vision modules for autonomous vehicles and organizing weekly meetings to ensure project milestones were met.