Panchapakesan Ganesh

Bio

Dr. Panchapakesan Ganesh is a Distinguished Research and Development Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research interests lie at the intersection of theoretical condensed matter physics, theoretical quantum chemistry, computational material science, high-performance computing and machine-learning. Broadly, his research involves developing methods to gain fundamental insights into the role of defects and disorder in energy materials, electronic materials, correlated- and topological quantum-materials as well as designing new improved materials using these insights for various applications, combining high-performance computing with machine-learning & artificial intelligence based methods. A complete list of publications is available in his Google Scholar page. 

Currently he leads the Theory and Computation Section at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Under his leadership the section is focusing on developing new theoretical methods leveraging HPC platforms for fundamental understanding of nanoscale materials and processes and developing novel methods for incorporating theory-in-the-loop of Autonomous Experiments using advanced AI/ML methods for accelerated discovery of foundational scientific knowledge and new advanced materials. Ganesh is also a thrust lead in the Center for Predictive Simulation of Functional Materials (CPSFM), a DOE Computational Material Science Center to develop and apply Quantum Monte Carlo methods for correlated solids. 

He received his Ph. D in Physics from the Physics Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. Prior to joining ORNL in 2010, he was a Carnegie postdoctoral fellow in the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Before coming to the US, Ganesh earned his Bachelors in Physics with Honors from the prestigious Presidency University in Kolkata, India, and a MSc degree from the Department of Physics at Pune University, India, after gaining admissions via highly competitive national selection examinations.  

Specialties: * Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics * Advanced HPC-scalable AI/ML Algorithms for Scientific Discovery * Computational Materials Science * Theoretical Quantum Chemistry * High-Performance Computing Methods * Mathematics * 

Awards

2020 Division award for Distinguished Scientific Paper

2020 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Significant Event Award

2017 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Significant Event Award

2016 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Significant Event Award

2013 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Significant Event Award

2006 The Joseph A. Kane Fellowship from the Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

2005 George E. and Majorie S. Pake Fellowship from the Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

2000 Book award in physics, Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune, India

Trademarks and Patents

"New Class of Pure Piezoelectric Materials", R. E. Cohen and P. Ganesh (2011) 

Publications