Venkattraman received his BS in Aerospace Engineering in
2007 from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He got his MS in
Aeronautics & Astronautics, with a specialization in computational
engineering from Purdue in 2009. His main research interests are in theoretical
and computational nonequilibrium flows including plasma physics During his
graduate school he has worked with his advisor Prof. Alina Alexeenko, on
several problems in diverse applications such as MEMS, vacuum technology, and
hypersonic flows. Venkattraman was also a summer student in 2010 at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) working on 3D plasma simulations
for the National Ignition Facility (NIF)