Publications

• Post 2020: Almost all of my publications have a CReDiT statement
• 2018 - 2023: ~5 years full-time in Industry

2026

• Layered Multi-Objective Control of Battery Storage Using Digital Twin Technology
  Authors: Reuling, J., Lopez, J.C., Tunuguntla, D.R., Zijlstra, P.W., Hurink, J.L., Hoogsteen, G.
  Journal: Proceedings of the CIRED 2026 Brussels Workshop: Implementing Successful Innovation in Distribution Networks Accepted

• Modelling Granular Segregation: Insights from Four Decades of Research
  Authors: Thornton, A.R., Hill, K.M., Jing, L., Marks, B., Tunuguntla, D.R.
  Journal: Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics Invite-only

• More to follow

2025

• Steps to take for adoption of AI in Manufacturing Industry
  Authors: Linssen, J., Ahmed, F., Tunuguntla, D.R.
  Journal: Fraunhoffer Innovation Platform Magazine InnovatieNU Invite-only

• Towards Scientific Machine Learning for Granular Material Simulations - Challenges and Opportunities
  First Authors: Fransen, M., Mayr, A., Tunuguntla, D.R., Wilke, D.N., Cheng, H.
  FYI: Together with other 20-plus authors, this paper is a result of the invite-only Lorentz Workshop Machine Learning for Discrete Granular Media in Leiden, 2024.
  Journal: Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

• SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models
  Authors: Multi-author NAACL proceedings from the initial efforts in the BigScience Research Workshop from Huggingface. from Huggingface, which continued after the workshop ended.
  Journal: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
  Dataset: Check out the dataset made available on Huggingface.

2023-2018 (while full-time in industry)

• Shape matters: Competing mechanisms of particle shape segregation 2022
  Authors: Hernandez-Delfin, D., Tunuguntla, D.R., Weinhart, T., Hidalgo, R.C. and Thornton, A.R.
  Journal: Physical Review E

• Bloom: A 176b-parameter open-access multilingual language model 2022
  Authors: 100-plus author effort of the BigScience Research Workshop
  Journal: Open-access on arxiv
  Model: Check out the pre-trained model available on Huggingface.

• You reap what you sow: On the Challenges of Bias Evaluation Under Multilingual Settings 2022
  Authors: Talat, Z., Neveol, A., Biderman, S., Clinciu, M., Dey, M., Longpre, S., Luccioni, S., Masoud, M., Mitchell, M., Radev, D., Sharma, S., Subramonian, A., Tae, J., Tan, S., Tunuguntla, D.R. and van Der Wal, O.
  FYI: Multi-author effort of the BigScience Research Workshop
  Journal: Proceedings of BigScience Episode #5 – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference
  

• Fast, flexible particle simulations—an introduction to MercuryDPM 2020
  Authors: Weinhart, T., Orefice, L., Post, M., van Schrojenstein-Lantman, M.P., Denissen, I.F.C., Tunuguntla, D.R., Tsang, J.M.F., Cheng, H., Shaheen, M.Y., Shi, H., Rapino, P., Grannonio, E., Losacco, N., Barbosa, J., Jing, L., Alvarez Naranjo, J.E., Roy, S., den Otter, W.K. and Thornton, A.R.
  Journal: Computer Physics Communications

• Surface flow profiles for dry and wet granular materials by Particle Tracking Velocimetry; the effect of wall roughness 2019
  Authors: Roy, S., Scheper, B.J., Polman, H., Thornton, A.R., Tunuguntla, D.R., Luding, S. and Weinhart, T.
  Journal: The European Physical Journal E

2017

• Comparing and contrasting size-based particle segregation models: Applying coarse-graining to perfectly bidisperse systems
  Authors: Tunuguntla, D.R., Weinhart, T. and Thornton, A.R.
  Journal: Computational Particle Mechanics

• Inducing axial banding in bidisperse-by-density granular systems using noncylindrical tumbler geometries
  Authors: Windows-Yule, C.R.K., van Der Horn, A.J., Tunuguntla, D.R., Parker, D.J. and Thornton, A.R.
  Journal: Physical Review Applied

• Balancing size and density segregation in bidisperse dense granular flows
  Authors: Tunuguntla, D.R. and Thornton, A.R.
  Journal: Proceedings of the Powders and Grains – 8th International Conference on Micromechanics on Granular Media

• Discrete element modelling of granular column collapse tests with industrial applications
  Authors: Torres-Sera, J., Tunuguntla, D.R., Denissen, I.F.C., Rodrıguez Ferran, A. and Romero Morales, E.E.
  Journal: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods: Fundamentals and Applications

• MercuryDPM: A fast and flexible particle solver Part A: Technical Advances
  Authors: Weinhart, T., Tunuguntla, D.R., van Schrojenstein-Lantman, M.P., van Der Horn, A.J., Denissen, I.F.C., Windows-Yule, C.R., de Jong, A.C. and Thornton, A.R.
  Journal: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Discrete Element Methods

• MercuryDPM: Fast, flexible particle simulations in complex geometries Part B: Applications
  Authors: Weinhart, T., Tunuguntla, D.R., van Schrojenstein-Lantman, M.P., Denissen, I.F.C., Windows-Yule, C.R.K., Polman, H., Tsang, J.M., Jin, B., Orefice, L., van der Vaart, K., Roy, S., Shi, H., Pagano, A., den Breeijen, W., Scheper B.J., Jarray, A., Luding, S. and Thornton, A.R.
  Journal: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods: Fundamentals and Applications

• Discrete particle simulations with MercuryDPM
  Authors: Tunuguntla, D.R., Weinhart, T. and Thornton, A.R
  Journal: As a book chapter for ALERT Doctoral School on Discrete Element Modeling

2016

• From discrete elements to continuum fields: Extension to bidisperse systems
  Authors: Tunuguntla, D.R., Thornton, A.R. and Weinhart, T.
  Journal: Computational Particle Mechanics Special Issue Invite-only

• Numerical modelling of granular flows: A reality check
  Authors: Windows-Yule, C.R.K., Tunuguntla, D.R. and Parker, D.J.
  Journal: Computational Particle Mechanics Special Issue Invite-only

• Physik der Lawinen
  Authors: Weinhart, T., Tunuguntla, D.R., Thornton A.R. and Luding, S.
  Journal: Physik Journal German

2011 - 2015 (Fun PhD years)

• Polydisperse granular flows over inclined channels 2015
  Authors: Tunuguntla, D.R.
  Journal: University of Twente Doctoral Thesis

• A mixture theory for size and density segregation in shallow granular free-surface flows 2014
  Authors: Tunuguntla, D.R., Bokhove, O. and Thornton, A.R.
  Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1st publication as first-author

• Mercury-DPM: fast particle simulations in complex geometries 2013
  Authors: Thornton, A.R., Krijgsman, D., Fransen, R.H.A., Gonzalez Briones, S., Tunuguntla, D.R., te Voortwis, A., Luding, S., Bokhove, O. and Weinhart, T.
  Journal: EnginSoft newsletter for simulation based Engineering & Sciences