Prashant Saxena is a data scientist and applied mathematician with 15+ years of experience developing mathematical and computational models for complex, real-world systems. He currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Physics at the University of Glasgow , where he leads interdisciplinary research at the intersection of machine learning, scientific computing, simulation, and optimisation. His open-source solvers and publications in nonlinear mechanics are widely used by the computational mechanics community.

Prashant has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Glasgow, and studied Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. Prashant has worked in Germany, Switzerland, and India, and has been recognised with several competitive awards including the EPSRC New Investigator Award, SERB Ramanujan fellowship, and SERB Early Career Research Award. He is also a Gold Medalist at the Indian National Physics Olympiad.

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