Spotlight Akiri Seki
Today we're spotlighting Akiri Seki, who is pursuing a PhD in Structural Engineering and Mechanics here in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
Akiri was recently nominated to the Siebel Scholars program! Siebel Scholars recognizes the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering, and energy science, forming an active, lifelong community among an ever-growing group of leaders. Each year, more than 90 exceptional students are selected as Siebel Scholars based on academic excellence and leadership potential. Congratulations, Akiri!
Akiri Seki is working with CEE Professor Barbara Simpson. He received his BS and MS from Hokkaido University, Japan. His research interests started in structural engineering, and now he enjoys tackling multi-disciplinary problems using real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS), a numerical-physical testing approach that couples numerical models to physical experiments in real time. His current research project focuses on developing an RTHS architecture to study the interacting dynamics of floating offshore wind turbines, which are expected to play a major role in the renewable energy transition. He envisions that the RTHS approach can be applied to a broader set of multi-dynamics applications that are impossible to solve using purely numerical or experimental approaches.