Deme Hirko l Water Engineer | Research Excellence Award

Dr. Deme Hirko l Water Engineer | Research Excellence Award

 Jimma University | Ethiopia

Dr. Deme Hirko is a motivated, results-oriented civil engineer with a PhD (defended November 2025, Stellenbosch University) and over 10 years of academic and research experience in water resources engineering, hydrology, and climate change modelling. His education spans a PhD in Civil Engineering, an MSc in Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering, and a BSc in Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering. Professionally, Dr. Deme Hirko has served as lecturer, teaching assistant, hydrology analyst, site engineer, and departmental coordinator. His research interests include climate-resilient water allocation, hydrological modelling, and AI applications. He possesses strong skills in machine learning, WEAP, Python, GIS, and HPC, has supervised numerous theses, received institutional recognition for leadership, and is committed to advancing sustainable, data-driven water management through postdoctoral research.

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Guru Guruswamy l Aerospace and Civil Engineering | Distinguished Scientist Award

Dr. Guru Guruswamy l Aerospace and Civil Engineering | Distinguished Scientist Award

NASA Ames Research Center | United States

Dr. Guru Guruswamy is a distinguished aerospace scientist with decades of leadership in computational aeroelasticity, multidisciplinary design, and high-performance computing. He holds a PhD from Purdue University, an ME from the Indian Institute of Science, and a BE from Bangalore University with top honors. His professional career spans senior scientific leadership at NASA Ames, consultancy in high-fidelity air-taxi simulations, and earlier roles in industry and national laboratories. Dr. Guru Guruswamy’s research interests include transonic aeroelasticity, fluid-structure-control interaction, and scalable HPC frameworks, supported by advanced skills in simulation software development and project oversight. A recipient of multiple NASA, AIAA, and academic honors, he continues to shape aerospace innovation through research, mentorship, and global technical leadership.

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A body-fitted structured grid approach to simulate breathing mode oscillations during parachute deployment


Aerospace Science and Technology, 2025

Grid topology for time-accurate deployment simulation of 2D parachutes using Navier–Stokes equations


Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023

High-fidelity flight simulation of small aircraft over tall buildings


Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2022

Computation of gust-induced responses of an air taxi using Navier–Stokes equations


Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022

Active control of Dutch-roll oscillations of eVTOL aircraft


Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021

Alexander Churbanov | Predictive Modeling Innovations | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Alexander Churbanov | Predictive Modeling Innovations | Best Researcher Award

Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia

Dr. Alexander Churbanov is a senior scientist at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, specializing in mathematical modeling, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and coupled physical phenomena in porous media and viscous flows. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematical Modeling from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1978 and 1988, respectively, with his doctoral thesis focused on numerical simulation of convective phenomena in technological facilities. Dr. Churbanov began his career as an engineer developing training systems for Soviet orbital flights at the Bureau of Space Research “ENERGIA” and later contributed to semiconductor material production modeling at the State Institute of Rare Metals Industry. Since 1988, he has served as a Senior Scientist at Keldysh Institute, where his research emphasizes the development of efficient algorithms and codes for CFD applications. He has authored 34 documents, including 25 SCI/Scopus-indexed journal papers, and his work has been cited 240 times, yielding an h-index of 8. His research interests encompass incompressible and slightly compressible viscous flows, coupled phenomena, open-source CFD software, and predictive modeling innovations. Recognized for contributions to mathematical modeling of coupled physical systems, Dr. Churbanov continues to advance computational methods, bridging theory and practical applications in engineering and applied sciences.

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Churbanov, A. G., Churbanova, N. G., & Trapeznikova, M. A. (2023). “Coupled Prediction of Flows in Domains Containing a Porous Medium and a Free Stream.” Mathematical Models and Computer Simulations.

Churbanova, N. G., Trapeznikova, M. A., Churbanov, A. G., & Emets, V. V. (2023). “Prediction of Flows in an Automotive Catalytic Converter.” In Systems of Signals Generating and Processing in the Field of On-Board Communications, SOSG 2023 – Conference Proceedings.

Podryga, V. O., Churbanov, A. G., Tarasov, N. I., Polyakov, S. V., Trapeznikova, M. A., & Churbanova, N. G. (2022). “Multiscale Approach for Modeling Multiphase Fluid Flows in Installations for Reprocessing of Natural Gas.” Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics.

Churbanov, A., Churbanova, N., Polyakov, S., & Trapeznikova, M. (2021). “Coupled Calculations of Flows in Domains Including a Porous Medium and a Homogeneous Fluid.” In Proceedings – 2021 Ivannikov Memorial Workshop, IVMEM 2021.

Polyakov, S. V., Trapeznikova, M. A., Churbanov, A. G., & Churbanova, N. G. (2021). “Prediction of Incompressible Flows in a Porous Medium-Free Stream System.” Keldysh Institute Preprints.

Anatoly Vershinin | Algorithm Development | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Anatoly Vershinin | Algorithm Development | Best Researcher Award

Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia

Professor Anatoly Vershinin is a distinguished computational mechanics researcher at Lomonosov Moscow State University, holding a Doctorate in Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Graduating with honors from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics in 2006, he has been a core member of the Chair of Computational Mechanics since 2009. With an h-index of 11 and over 321 citations, Professor Vershinin has authored 51 journal articles, 4 books, and holds 33 patents, contributing significantly to numerical modeling, high-performance computing, and computational mechanics. His research focuses on numerical discretization methods for nonlinear partial differential equations and parallel algorithms for massively parallel computing systems, underpinning the industrial structural engineering software CAE Fidesys. He has led or contributed to 11 research projects and multiple consultancy initiatives in collaboration with institutes such as the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth and Saudi Aramco Moscow Innovation Center. An active member of the International Program Committee for “Advanced Mechanics: Structure, Materials, Tribology,” he bridges academia and industry, driving innovations in structural analysis and computational methods. His contributions have earned recognition for advancing numerical methods, high-performance simulations, and practical engineering applications, establishing him as a leading figure in computational mechanics research.

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Yarushina, V. M.; Podladchikov, Y. Y.; Vershinin, A. V. (2025). “A Micromechanical Model for Mineral Replacement Reactions and Associated Deformation: From Pore Clogging to Solid Volume Increase” in American Journal of Science.

Ampilov, Y. P.; Vershinin, A. V.; Kunchenko, D. S.; Petrovsky, K. A.; Safuanova, K. R. (2025). “Prediction of Thin-Layer Thickness Using Seismic Full-Waveform Modeling” in Moscow University Geology Bulletin.

Levin, V. A.; Vershinin, A. V. (2024). “CAE Fidesys as the Implementation of Fundamental Results of Computational Mechanics into Industry” in International Scientific Conference “Advanced Mechanics: Structure, Materials, Tribology”, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 23-26 сентября 2024. Abstracts

Levin, V. A.; Vershinin, A. V.; Yakovlev, M. Ya; Levchegov, I. O.; Zhmurovsky, A. A. (2024). “Computed Tomography Based Stress-Strain Analysis of Heterogeneous Models of Rocks and Biological Tissues Using Unstructured Meshes” in Russian Physics Journal.

Vershinin, A.; Ampilov, Y.; Levin, V.; Petrovsky, K. (2024). “Full waveform modeling in seismic exploration based on a digital geological model using spectral element method on GPU” in 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics.