Pramudita Satria Palar, PhD

Short Biography

Pramudita Satria Palar, PhD is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. Prior to his current position, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan, collaborating with Associate Prof. Koji Shimoyama and Prof. Shigeru Obayashi on the improvement of efficient global optimization (EGO) and the application of surrogate-based optimization and design exploration in aerospace engineering. During his postdoctoral position, he visited Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden University as a visiting researcher.

Dr. Palar’s research interests are primarily in the areas of computationally expensive optimization, evolutionary algorithms, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, and their applications in aerospace, biomedical, and general engineering. He heavily employs surrogate model (i.e., function approximation) in his study to assist engineering design and analysis.

Dr. Palar earned his Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He conducted his Ph.D. research on the topic of multi-objective aerodynamic robust optimization, where he developed and investigated a surrogate-assisted memetic algorithm method and a multi-fidelity uncertainty quantification technique based on polynomial chaos expansion. During his doctoral study, he was also a visiting researcher at the Engineering Design Center of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and wrote several collaborative papers with the Center.