Education :

• Bachelor of Technology – Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
• Master of Technology – Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2008)
• PhD – Materials Science and Engineering, MIT (2013)

Projects :

Mitigating hydrogen- and helium- induced damage

Awards :

• DOE-BES Energy Frontier Research Center Graduate Student Award, 2013

“My primary research interests are computational materials modeling, finite element analysis, and mechanical properties of materials.” Currently a Petroleum Engineer in Computational Modeling Technology in the Aramco Research Center, Boston.

Selected publications :

A Kashinath and M J Demkowicz, “A predictive interatomic potential for He in Cu and Nb” Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 19 (2011) 035007 http://stacks.iop.org/MSMSE/19/035007

A. Kashinath, A. Misra, and M. J. Demkowicz,  “Stable Storage of Helium in Nanoscale Platelets at Semicoherent Interfaces,” Physical Review Letters 110, 086101 (2013) http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i8/e086101

A. Kashinath, P. Wang, J. Majewski, J. K. Baldwin, Y. Q. Wang, and M. J. Demkowicz, “Detection of helium bubble formation at fcc-bcc interfaces using neutron reflectometry,” Journal of Applied Physics 114, 043505 (2013) http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/114/4/10.1063/1.4813780

E. Watkins, A. Kashinath, P. Wang, J. K. Baldwin, J. Majewski, and M.J. Demkowicz, “Characterization of a Fe/Y2O3 metal/oxide interface using neutron and x-ray scattering”, accepted in APL