N. M. Anoop Krishnan
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Biography
N. M. Anoop Krishnan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at IIT Delhi with a joint appointment in the Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence. He leads the Multiphysics & Multiscale Mechanics Research Group (M3RG), which focuses on AI-driven materials discovery, computational modeling of glasses, cementitious materials and disordered systems, and the development of foundation models for scientific applications.
Anoop received his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Calicut in 2009, followed by a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 2015. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Los Angeles from 2015 to 2017 before joining IIT Delhi. He recently completed an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2023-2024), working on machine learning approaches for glass science.
Anoop conducts research at the intersection of materials science, computational mechanics, and artificial intelligence. His work has advanced the development of domain-specific language models for materials science, including MatSciBERT and LLaMat, and autonomous discovery frameworks such as the AILA. He is particularly passionate about developing rigorous benchmarking frameworks that enable researchers to understand the capabilities and limitations of AI models in scientific applications. His research spans atomistic and multiscale simulations, machine learning force fields, and AI-driven approaches to understanding structure-property relationships in complex materials, with applications ranging from construction materials to advanced ceramics and glasses.
Among his recognitions, he has received the W. H. Zachariasen Award from the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Sir A. Pilkington Award from the Society of Glass Technology, UK (2024), the W. A. Weyl International Glass Science Award from International Commission on Glass (2022), the Google Research Scholar Award (2023), the Young Engineer Award by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2020), and Young Scientist Award by the National Academy of Sciences India (2021).
RSC affiliations
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