I am Ashwani Kumar Goel, currently pursuing my Ph.D. from Engineering Mechanics Department, University of Nebraska Lincoln. I am from India. I have taken my Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from HBTI, Kanpur,India and my Masters degree in Applied Mechanics from IIT, Delhi, India. I have taken lots of courses related to solid mechanics starting from my undergraduation. I have taken strength of materials ,applied mechanics, mechanics of solids during my undergraduate degree and applied elasticity, theory of plasticity, theory of plates and shells, continuum mechanics, linear viscoelasticity during my graduate degree. The group I work in focuses on theoretical, computational and experimental methods for the modeling and analysis of materials and the simulation of their response. I have been part of this group for about two and half years and focusing on theoretical and computational methods to extract material characteristics from novel experimental methods and in the implementation of these characteristics into simulations.