Rishita Das is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Rishita received her PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University, where she worked on small-scale dynamics in turbulent flows. Rishita holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, in the research areas of information theory, nonlinear dynamics, complex systems, and data science. Rishita is an Amelia Earhart Fellow and a DAAD-WISE scholar.
Rishita’s research interest is broadly in fluid dynamics and turbulence. Her research currently focuses on understanding and modeling the physics of turbulence in both incompressible and compressible turbulent flows. Leveraging high-fidelity numerical simulations of turbulent flows and advanced data-driven methods, Rishita wants to develop improved physical understanding, accurate modeling and computational framework, and control techniques for complex turbulent flows in Aerospace and Energy.