Fellows
Lorenzo Mazzanti
Lorenzo studied Mechanical Engineering at Università degli Studi di Ferrara: he obtained his Bachelor in 2017 and his Master in 2019. He performed his Master thesis activity at Siemens Industry Software NV in Leuven (Belgium), where he spent a period of six months as intern working on the development of Optimal Sensor Placement strategies for Kalman-based input estimation.
Currently, he is employed by Siemens Industry Software NV as research engineer associate and enrolled as PhD student at KU Leuven’s Doctoral School. He has joined the Eco Drive Innovative Training Network as Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher to develop augmented sensing techniques for the estimation of contact forces and strains in geared drivetrains.
Vinay Prakash
Vinay obtained his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India in 2014 and his Master’s degree in Computational Engineering from Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU), Erlangen, Germany in 2020. He carried out his internship and master’s thesis in collaboration with Robert-Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (Germany). His master’s thesis titled “Topology Optimization of electrical machines considering demagnetization” aimed at improving the efficiency of e-motors using adjoint sensitivities.
Vinay is currently employed at Groupe PSA, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France as a MSCA Early Stage Researcher and enrolled as a Ph.D. student at INSA Lyon, France. Within the framework of ITN ECO DRIVE, his research work is directed towards the development and validation of meta-models including simulation and test components for linking powertrain design with NVH performance.