{"id":13,"date":"2025-08-11T20:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-08-12T04:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:41:55","slug":"dr-rajni-chahals-experience-and-vision-for-aimms-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/dr-rajni-chahals-experience-and-vision-for-aimms-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1704\" height=\"1922\" class=\"wp-image-44\" style=\"width: 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2025\/08\/2024-P22391-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2025\/08\/2024-P22391-Copy.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2025\/08\/2024-P22391-Copy-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2025\/08\/2024-P22391-Copy-908x1024.jpg 908w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2025\/08\/2024-P22391-Copy-768x866.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2025\/08\/2024-P22391-Copy-1362x1536.jpg 1362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Rajni Chahal earned her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington in 2020, focusing on multiscale modeling of carbon nanotube reinforced polymer composites. Thereafter, she led the development of machine learning interatomic potentials for molten salts and polymer materials for Department of Energy (DOE) while working as Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (2021-2022) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2022-2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"Google-Scholar\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=_ctEnOwAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">Check out my research<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rajnichahal\/\">Connect with me<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigator Dr. Rajni Chahal earned her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington in 2020, focusing on multiscale modeling of carbon nanotube reinforced polymer composites. Thereafter, she led the development of machine learning interatomic potentials for molten salts and polymer materials for Department of Energy (DOE) while working as Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}