Ope Owoyele
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
PhD, North Carolina State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø (2018)
Expertise
Data science and machine learning • turbulent combustion modeling • computational fluid dynamics • reduced-order modeling.
Biographical Sketch
Opeoluwa (Ope) Owoyele has been an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø since August 2021. Before joining LSU, he was a Postdoctoral Appointee in the Computational Multi-Physics Research Section at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Prior to this, he was a recipient of the ORISE postgraduate fellowship to perform research at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). He obtained his Master’s and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø. At ANL, he received an Impact Argonne Award in the category of Innovation and a Postdoctoral Performance Award in the Engineering Research category. He is also the recipient of the R&D 100 Award for developing a machine learning-genetic algorithm for rapid product design optimization. His research interests lie at the intersection of numerical methods, data science, machine learning, and high-performance computing for design optimization and data-derived reduced-order models.