EDUCATION & TRAINING

• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (Mentor: Dr. Vinod Kumar), Texas A&M University – Kingsville, 02/2025 – 08/2025
• PhD in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 2024
• BS in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 2020

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University – Kingsville, 08/2025 – Present
• Visiting Researcher, Computational Mathematics Department (Mentors: Drs. Nathaniel A. Trask and Mauro Perego), Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 05/2023 – 10/2023
• DOE NNSA NGFP Fellow, Office of Production Modernization (Mentor: Andrew P. Trotta), Defense Programs, Washington, D.C., 06/2021 – 06/2022
• AFRL Scholar, Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site (Mentor: Dr. Venkata S.R. Gudimetla), Directed Energy Directorate, Maui, 01/2021 – 04/2021
• Research and Development Intern, Aerosciences Department (Mentors: Drs. Paul M. Delgado and Brian A. Robbins), Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 05/2020 – 08/2020
• Technical Aide, Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Remote Sensing Sciences (Mentors: Drs. Jay H. Phelps and Kenneth M. Kalumuck), The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• Research and Development Intern, Fire Science and Technology Department (Mentors: Drs. John C. Hewson and Alexander L. Brown), Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 05/2018 – 08/2018

TEACHING

Undergraduate: Aerodynamics and Engineering Measurements                     

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

(159 Publications, including journals, preprints, conference proceedings, abstracts, presentations, and posters.)

• Rodriguez, A., Potluri, A., Singh, A., Kumar, V., Reza, K., Ortega, F. O. A., ... & Estrada, N. L. (2025). Cross-Model Verification of Wall-Bounded Flows using Finite-JAX. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25569.
• Rodriguez, A., Harris, C., Potluri, A., Estrada, N. L., Hernandez, A. M., Kumar, V., ... & Kumar, V. V. (2025). Numerical and analytical modeling of heat equation in current-carrying conductors using the heat equation implemented using Finite-JAX. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.24162.
• Diaz-Caraveo, C., Wolk, K., Miesner, S., Montemayor, M., Rodriguez, A., Kumar, V., ... & Roberts, S. N. (2025). Performance-Dryout Limits of Oscillating Heat Pipes: A Comprehensive Theoretical and Experimental Determination. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 39(2), 289-299.
• Rodriguez, A., Chattopadhyay, A., Kumar, P., Rodriguez, L. F., & Kumar, V. (2024). Partition of Unity Physics-Informed Neural Networks (POU-PINNs): An Unsupervised Framework for Physics-Informed Domain Decomposition and Mixtures of Experts. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.06842.
• Rodriguez, A., Enriquez, A., Terrazas, J., Villanueva, D., Paez, B., Dudu, N., ... & Kumar, V. (2022, March). Predicting Boundary-Layer Transition (BLT) Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Causality Inference. In APS March Meeting Abstracts(Vol. 2022, pp. S49-005).
• Rodriguez, A., Kumar, P., Diaz-Caraveo, C., Adansi, R. O., Rodriguez, L. F., Kumar, V. V., & Kumar, V. (2025). Computational Aerothermal Framework and Analysis of Stetson Mach 6 Blunt Cone. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.09368.

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