Johns Hopkins University • Civil & Systems Engineering
Portrait of Meer Mehran
PhD Candidate • Johns Hopkins University

Meer Mehran

Computational Solid Mechanics Scientific Machine Learning

I investigate nonlinear continuum mechanics and multiscale material behavior, leveraging machine learning architectures to build fast, high-fidelity surrogate models for solid mechanics simulations.

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Research Projects

This project explores a coupled cDDPM and DeepONet framework for predicting the response of hyperelastic materials.

FenicsX PyTorch cDDPM DeepONet

In this project, we explore SOTA Neural Operators to predict the strain trajectories of 2D Digital Composites

PyTorch Neural Operators

In this project, we showcase the efficacy of using FNO for predicting full field stress and strain tensors.

PyTorch Fourier Neural Operator

Publications & Conferences

SSRN Preprint 2026
A Hybrid Conditional Diffusion-DeepONet Framework for High-Fidelity Stress Prediction in Hyperelastic Materials
P.V. Kota, M.M. Rashid, S. Goswami, L. Graham-Brady
Digital Discovery 2024
CoDBench: a critical evaluation of data-driven models for continuous dynamical systems
P. Burark, K. Tiwari, M.M. Rashid, A. P. Pratosh, N.M. Anoop Krishnan
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 2024
Revealing the predictive power of neural operators for strain evolution in digital composites
M.M. Rashid, S. Chakraborty, N.M. Anoop Krishnan
iScience 2022
Learning the stress-strain fields in digital composites using Fourier neural operator
M.M. Rashid,T. Pittie, S. Chakraborty, N.M. Anoop Krishnan

Teaching Assistant

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
EN.560.604: Introduction to Solid Mechanics

Assisted in graduate-level instruction on constitutive laws, viscoelasticity, nonlinear mechanics, and plane stress and strain formulations for structural applications.

Graduate Fall 2025
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
EN.560.201: Statics & Mechanics of Materials

Undergraduate-level instruction on static equilibrium, free-body diagrams, centroids, moments of inertia, and stress-strain analysis of axial, torsional, and bending members.

Undergraduate Fall 2024
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI
CVL242: Structural Analysis I

Led weekly TA sessions, recitations, and grading for determinate and indeterminate truss and beam analysis, Castigliano’s energy methods, influence lines for rolling loads, and cable-arch structures.

Undergraduate Spring 2023
First posts in progress

Building..... blog page.

Code

GITHUB REPOSITORY
cDDPM DeepONet for Hyperelastic Material Response repo soon

A hybrid cDDPM-DeepONet surrogate model to predict full-resolution von Mises($\sigma_{vM}$) fields in hyperelastic materials by decoupling spatial morphology from magnitude scaling

PyTorch DeepONet cDDPM SciML
GITHUB REPOSITORY

On using Neural Operators to predict the evolution of full-field strain tensors across 2D digital composites under quasi-static loading paths.

PyTorch FNO SciML
GITHUB REPOSITORY

Using FNO to predict the full field $\varepsilon$ , $\sigma$ tensors in 2D Digital Composites

Python PyTorch

Curriculum Vitae

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Education
Ph.D. ongoing - Civil Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
M.S. - Structural Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
New Delhi, India
B.Tech. - Civil Engineering
National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar
Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India
Technical Skillsets
Computational Mechanics & FEA
• FenicsX • Abaqus • Finite Element Methods
Scientific Machine Learning & Computing
• Python • PyTorch • JAX,

Contact & Address

Department of Civil and Systems Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
303 Latrobe Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
Email: mrashi12@jhu.edu