Prapti Neupane
PhD student, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austinprapti@ices.utexas.edu
Background and research interests
Prapti obtained a B.A. in Mathematics and Biology with specialization in quantitative biology from Boston University in 2011. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, working in the computational hydraulics group at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences under Professor Clint Dawson. She is interested in modeling flooding in coastal lowlands and watersheds due to inland storm surge and torrential rain and studying the solutions to these problems in the context of Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin methods.
Other interests
Prapti spends her free time exploring new places and new cultures. She also enjoys ballroom and latin dancing.