Maitreyee Sharma Priyadarshini honored with the 2024 Mark O. Robbins Prize
Johns Hopkins University recently honored the 2024 Mark O. Robbins Prize recipients in high-performance computing. The award is a given in the memory of Prof. Mark O. Robbins who was a renowned condensed matter and statistical physicist who played a key role in supporting the development of computational facilities at Johns Hopkins. Among this year’s recipients is Virginia Tech’s Maitreyee Sharma Priyadarshini, an assistant professor in the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering. Sharma was selected as one of two Future Faculty award recipients by the Advanced Research Computing at Hopkins (ARCH) facility.
Her research expertise includes computational hypersonic flow modeling, atomistic simulations of materials, machine learning and computational materials discovery. Priyadarshini completed her Ph.D. and master’s in aerospace engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
She is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Materials Research Society and the American Chemical Society.
About the Robbins Prize: Mark O. Robbins received BA and MA degrees from Harvard University. He was a Churchill Fellow at Cambridge University, U.K., and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Robbins was a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins from 1986 until his untimely death in 2020. He was a renowned condensed matter and statistical physicist who played a key role in supporting the development of computational facilities at Johns Hopkins, through his leadership for the Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center in the Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science.
