About MAI

The energy landscape undergoes an irreversible transformation driven by advances in technology, growing concern for the environment, changing consumer behaviour, new policies, changes in fuel availability and pricing, and resource constraint. Today, immediate communication between “things” brings the opportunity for engineering of smart energy systems, dissolving the boundaries between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. At the dawn of this new exploration age, we are developing new methodologies to solve complex, multivariate optimization problems for practical engineering applications.  

Research @ MAI

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. -- E.F. Schumacher

@MAI we apply 1/3 rule as our guide:  (i) exploring the frontiers of  scientific disciplines to never lose our motivation and to have a source of inspiration, (ii) actively contribute the development of our field of expertise and (iii) further propagate this know-how with industrial collaborations and mentoring activities.  

Our current research is centred around five themes: (i) clean combustion technologies, (ii) AI-augmented simulation of multi-scale transport phenomena, (iii) theory of learning, (iv) AI-assisted scientific visualization and (v) smart sensors & wearables for state monitoring.
 

Active Research Projects

HERMIT

AI-based model discovery for the waste separation processes in the "zero waste" cycle

CO2Abs

Enhanced CO2 capture in 
gas-liquid contact reactors

RTSPH

MCMC modeling of radiative heat transfer in multiphase flows

AutoTurbo

Early detection and preventive monitoring of stalling in turbochargers

Meet the Team

Dr.-Ing. Cihan Ates
Research Group Leader

Karthik Muthukumar
PhD Candidate

Joel Arweiler
PhD Candidate

Sebastian Nutto
Master Student

Andreas Eppler
Master Student

Oliver Resch
Master Student

Furkan Yurt
Student Assistant

Maximilian Enke
Student Assistant

Alumni 
Master, Bachelor, HiWi

Interested in our research?

Are you interested in joining our research group and contributing to our ongoing projects? We welcome motivated and talented individuals to join our team and make a difference in the field of data driven engineering.

You can find the list of currently available positions from here. We look forward to receiving your application and potentially welcoming you to our team!

We are open to discussing potential collaborations with academic institutions, companies, and organizations that align with our research goals. If you are interested in collaborating with us, please don't hesitate to reach out. We look forward to hearing from you and exploring the possibilities for working together.

Contact us

Dr. Cihan Ates
Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Campus Süd Geb. 30.60, Straße am Forum 6 , 76131 Karlsruhe
cihan.ates@kit.edu