ABOUT ME | Doctor Chadha

My school at Katchal in ruins after the 2004 Tsunami

Standing in front of Trinket Island which was split into three parts due to 2004 Tsunami

Re-birth

The epicenter of the 2004 earthquake was just 150 miles from the tribal island of Katchal where my family resided at that time. I and my family barely made it. The Tsunami wiped out the majority of the habited area of the island with only a few survivors.

2004

Receiving a Gold medal from the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2008

Mom, I did it!

I was awarded a Gold medal by the Indian Government for exemplary performance (being top 0.1% of the successful candidates) in Science (Physics, Biology, and Chemistry), Mathematics, Social Science, and for scoring 95% in a nationwide Central Board of Secondary Exam (CBSE) 10th grade examination.

2008

Receiving a Gold medal from the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2008

Mom, I did it again!

I was awarded a Gold medal by the Indian Government for exemplary performance (being top 0.1% of the successful candidates) in Physics, Mathematics, and for scoring 96.4% in the nationwide Central Board of Secondary Exam (CBSE) 12th grade examination

2010

Mom, I did it once more!

I received a fellowship from the central government to pursue my undergraduate education in mainland India (since there are no colleges in Andaman and Nicobar Islands). I received my undergraduate degree with distinction from PSG College of Technology, Anna University, India. I was awarded a Gold medal for proficiency in civil engineering for my overall performance in the undergraduate program.

2014

A harbor in Great Nicobar island (top) and Katchal Island (bottom) . Both these projects used around 500 metric tons of concrete.

Administrative building of Indian Institute of Technology Design and Manufacturing at Kancheepuram, Chennai

As adulthood took over…

Post attaining an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering, I took upon a technical advisory role in an Andaman and Nicobar based 40-year-old construction company that is responsible for the construction of some of the largest infrastructures of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Apart from the technical advisory role, my primary responsibility is to guide and counsel the investment wing of the business.

2014

Not quite the Doctor that my mother wanted me to be

I received my M.S. degree (2016), and Ph.D. (2019) from UCSD’s Department of Structural Engineering. My Ph.D. research was summarized in the dissertation titled:

“Theoretical Development of Framed Space Curve and Its Applications to Higher-order Geometrically-exact Rod Theory, Shape Sensing, Path Estimation, and Computer Graphics”

Ph.D. Dissertation

2014-2019

Post-doctoral fellowship

Following Ph.D., I started post-doctoral fellowship in 2020 at UCSD and actively worked in US Army Corps. of Engineers (USACE) related projects.

2020-2022

Hedge Fund

In 2021, I with Shem Weissman founded a quantitative investment hedge fund, LogSpi LP. The fund aims to utilize quantitative patterns in investable markets (anything that is liquid) to build an actionable edge and target long-term capital growth for accredited investors. Currently, the fund is not open to public.

2022

Asst. Adjunct Professorship

In 2023, I was appointed as an Asst. Adjunct Professor in the department of Structural Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Apart from my business activities, I spend my time actively solving research problems and occasionally teaching mechanics courses at UC San Diego. My primary research interests and current research revolves around problems in Applied Mechanics (my first love) and application of risk analysis, uncertainty quantification, and machine learning to optimal decision making.

With physics Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Penrose after Dr. Penrose’s talk on how Quantum Mechanics can be instrumental in model human consciousness

2023

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Birth

I was born and brought up in Andaman and Nicobar Islands among the Nicobarese tribes in the remote Nicobar group of islands. I spent all my childhood on Katchal Island.

1992

Early Education

Up until 2002, I did my schooling at Katchal Island. Due to the lack of a better school at Katchal, my parents braved to send me to a boarding school in Dalhousie between 2002 and 2005. The rest of my education occurred at Port Blair.

2002

With my brother and father

With Sir Roger Penrose after his talk at UC San Diego

With my dear friend, Sean Weissman

UCSD, Structural Engineering, Structural Health Monitoring

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) research group led by Prof. Michael D. Todd at UC San Diego in 2019

Dalhousie Public School Mayank Chadha, Doctor Chadha

Sometime around 2003-2004 at Dalhousie Public School, Dalhousie, India

Undergraduate degree ceremony at PSG College of Technology, Anna University, Coimbatore

Defying Gravity

Mayank Chadha, Doctor Chadha, HBK, Zhen Hu, Michael D. Todd

With colleagues and collaborators from University of Michigan and HBK

SHM, University of California San Diego, Mayank Chadha, Doctor Chadha, Michael D. Todd, Zhen Hu

With colleagues and collaborators at IMAC conference, Austin, Texas 2023

Breakfast with my friend and my father

Sometimes its good to be in the middle of nowhere

Presenting our work on optimal sensor optimization framework at IMAC 2023 conference, Austin, Texas

Lunch with colleagues and collaborators in Detroit

Dinner with collaborators and colleagues

With the leading authorities of Computational Mechanics: Prof. Wing Kam Liu of Northwestern University (left most) and Prof. Jiun-Shyan Chen from UC San Diego (middle)