Shubham Sharma's CV
Education
Indian Institute of Science, Structural Engineering
- Aug 2019 – July 2025
- Bengaluru, India
- Thesis: Virtual Element Methods for Phase Field Fracture: Mesh Transitions, Composite Damage, and Stabilization-Free Formulations
- ISRO Fellowship awardee (2019 - 2023)
- Skills: Finite Element Method, Solid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Numerical Analysis
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Civil Engineering
- Aug 2018 – July 2019
- Rourkela, Odisha, India
- Thesis: Neural network based approach for linear elastic analysis of asphalt pavements subjected to moving loads
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Civil Engineering
- Aug 2014 – July 2018
- Rourkela, Odisha, India
- Graduated with Honors
Experience
SST India Pvt. Ltd., Senior Research Engineer (Engineering Software)
- July 2025 – present
- Bengaluru, India
- Research and development of the pipe stress analysis software CAEPIPE
- Development of a cloud-based flow analysis software
Indian Institute of Science, Teaching Assistant – Solid Mechanics
- Aug 2021 – Dec 2021
- Bengaluru, India
- Conducted doubt-clearing sessions twice a week for a class of 100 students
ModRoof, Summer Intern
- May 2017 – July 2017
- Ahmedabad, India
- Improved flexural properties of bare cardboard panels
- Collaborated in designing steel trusses of span ranging from 6 ft to 20 ft
South Eastern Railways, Winter Intern
- Dec 2016 – Dec 2016
- Sundergarh, Odisha, India
- Gained exposure to construction division activities including fabrication of steel girders of span 45.7 m
Publications
A robust virtual element method framework coupling phase-field and cohesive zone models for crack propagation in composite structures (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2026.120081)
- Shubham Sharma, Ananth Ramaswamy
Fine to coarse mesh transition in phase-field fracture simulations using the virtual element method (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finel.2025.104371)
- Shubham Sharma, Himanshu, Ananth Ramaswamy
A Geometrically Inspired Model for Brittle Damage in Compressible Elastomers (https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4050620)
- Sanhita Das, Shubham Sharma, Ananth Ramaswamy, Debasish Roy, J. N. Reddy
A comparison of lowest order standard and stabilization-free virtual element method for phase-field fracture
- Shubham Sharma, Ananth Ramaswamy
Projects
Virtual Element Methods for Phase Field Fracture
- Aug 2019 – July 2025
- 60% reduction in computational time via novel mesh transition strategy
- ABAQUS UEL implementation of VEM
- Voronoi and non-convex mesh generation in MATLAB
Modeling of Brittle Damage in Rubbery Polymers
- Aug 2019 – July 2022
- 7x computational speedup via MATLAB parallel programming
- Validated against experimental data
Crack Propagation in 3D Adhesive Layers (ISRO Funded)
- Aug 2019 – July 2023
- 3D phase field fracture implementation in ABAQUS
- Quarterly reporting and presentations to ISRO review team
Neural Network Based Analysis of Asphalt Pavements
- Aug 2018 – July 2019
- ANN-based surrogate model replacing 3D FEM simulations
- Automated dataset generation pipeline using Python and ABAQUS
Skills
Numerical Methods & Simulation
Programming
FEM Software
Languages
English
Hindi
Odia
References
Prof. Ananth Ramaswamy
Prof. Debasish Roy
Prof. Narayan Sundaram